O que dizem os registros
- Quando
- 1878
- Tipo
- Explosão
- Coordenadas
- 44.98° N, 93.26° W
- Description
- flour dust explosion in a Minneapolis mill in 1878
Great Mill Disaster
Flour dust explosion in a Minneapolis mill in 1878
The Great Mill Disaster, also known as the Washburn A Mill explosion, occurred on May 2, 1878, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The disaster resulted in 18 deaths. The explosion occurred on a Thursday evening when an accumulation of flour dust inside the Washburn A Mill, the largest mill in the world at the time, led to a dust explosion that killed the fourteen workers inside the mill.
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