Talk:Scofield Mine disaster

Proposed Renaming
It seems that this article should be renamed Winter Quarters Mine disaster since that was the name of the mine near Scofield, Utah in which the explosion occurred on May 1, 1900. The naming convention for other mine disasters seems to always name the event after the mine or the coal field where the event took place. (See Category:Mining_disasters_in_the_United_States) I'll make the change soon if there are no objections. - Authalic 18:14, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

I think it's kind of misleading in this case, since all of the sources I've seen refer to it as the Scofield mine disaster. 72.8.99.158 (talk) 18:29, 22 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I agree. This article should not have been renamed. In all the references I've seen it is commonly known as the Scofield Mine Disaster. --TrustTruth (talk) 17:15, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

In Popular Culture
The song "Funeral Train" commemorates this disaster. It was written by Troy Williams. Bruce "Utah" Phillips recorded it on his "Starlight on the Rails" album. If someone who knows how to edit better than I do (which doesn't take much) would like to add that tidbit to the page, it might be nice.

BTW, I'm with the "leave it Scofield" school of thinking. I've seen a fair number of references to it, and never saw the name "Winter Quarters" until now. [Odd--the "Yellow Jacket Fire" is usually known by the name of the mine, but the Scofield explosion by the name of the town. There's probably material right there for a PhD dissertation in the subject area of paralingual metatrivia.]

Terry J. Carter (talk) 17:58, 8 March 2014 (UTC)