The miner at the Sunshine Mine Fire Memorial looks over attendees, gathered to pay their respects for the dead on the tragedy’s 45th anniversary.
CHANSE WATSON/Hagadone News Network
March 5, 2020
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Moving History Forward: There’s no sunshine when they’re gone*
One hundred seventy-three went into the Silver Valley’s Sunshine Mine on May 2, 1972. One week later, only 87 of them were alive.