Jerome Fire

Those hard rock miners in places like Jerome faced a number of hazards including gas pockets, cave in’s, silicosis of the lungs caused by dust from the steam drills, caverns holding 170 degree scalding water, (150 degrees would cook meat), cage or elevator accidents, men sometimes feinted and fell hundreds of feet ricocheting off the timbers and into the scalding sump. Once a dog fell into the shaft and tumbled 300 feet landing on two miners and killing both. But what the miners fear the most