Some of the children who lost their fathers in the Castle Gate explosion. Utah State Archives.
The Emerging Social Worker and the Distribution of the Castle Gate Relief Fund BY MICHAEL KATSANEVAS, JR.
mine disasters. On May 1, 1900, an explosion at the Winter Quarters Mine in Scofield killed 200 men. Less than a quarter-century later, 171 men were killed when an explosion rocked the Number 2 Mine at Castle Gate on March 8, 1924. In some ways, responses to the two tragedies were similar, but in other ways the assistance available to families of the dead miners differed significantly. U T A H HAS BEEN THE SCENE OF TWO MAJOR
Mr. Katsanevas is a sales representative in Salt Lake City. His grandfather was one of the Castle Gate victims.
