 This postcard shows the ruins of the fan building – with the semicircular roof – as a result of the Cherry Mine disaster | |
| Date | November 13, 1909 |
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| Location | Cherry, Illinois, USA |
| Coordinates | 41°25′36″N 89°12′45″W / 41.426667°N 89.2125°W |
| Cause | Coal Mine fire |
| Casualties | |
| 259 dead | |
The Cherry Mine disaster was a fire which occurred at the Cherry Mine, a coal mine outside Cherry, Illinois, on November 13, 1909. The fire, which killed 259 men and boys, is the third most deadly mine disaster in American coal mining history.