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1) Wheeler Gulch Tramway Accident, July 30, 1921
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On July 30, 1921, at around 5 p.m., seven men were killed and three were seriously injured in Wheeler Gulch, five miles north of Parachute, Colorado, when a tramway cable slipped loose at the Schuyler-Doyle Shale Company mine. Twelve passengers had boarded the car, the majority of whom had just started working for the mine that very morning. As the car started down the slope, the cable became dislodged from the post it was anchored to, launching the...
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2) Grand Junction train depot munitions fire
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A fire on June 27, 1943 that was caused by the heating of U.S. Army munitions aboard a freight train during World War II. Raymond Edward Myers was a carman who worked for the D&RG. According to Myers, he was sent by the railroad to Rifle to repair a car on a West-bound ammunition train that day. He did so, and he and the crew rode the train to Grand Junction. Just past De Beque, the crew noticed a hotbox (an overheated axle) in a car in the middle...
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