re: Roof collapse at Cargill Salt Mine ; Two men dead (identity’s in post)

Prayers for them.

I remember during the 60’s when the Belle Isle Salt Mine caught fire and killed about twenty men.

Their is a memorial to the men who lost their lives on Hwy 90 near Franklin.

Cargill has a write up about it but I can’t find it now.

I remember watching and following it as it happened. The families were waiting in Calumet where the boat dock was.

A rescue team of coal miners were flown in from Kentucky or West Virginia. Berry Bro’s from Morgan City was a contractor on the scene.

Some of those killed were close blood and married relatives from Lydia,La. I think 4 sisters were widowed that day.

This was late 60’s or so. They had another fatal accident or two and wound up flooding the mine to abandon it.