Yellowjacket Mine Fire

Dennis Cassinelli in Chronicles of the Comstock looks back at the big underground fire in the Yellowjacket Mine in Gold Hill, on April 7, 1869.

Later: And also, on a related topic, today he writes about the square-set timbering system that supported those Comstock mines, and that burned so hungrily in the Yellowjacket Fire.

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