{"id":1871,"slug":"daly-west-mine-park-city-utah","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Daly-West is the gassed — the 'dynamite' that's the store's cargo, the 'candle' that's the spark's form. The '34' is the counted — the 'two mines' that's the death's spread, the 'asphyxiated' that's the killer's name. The 'Nimmo stopped' is the judged — the 'rescuers dying' that's the call's weight, the 'inquest blamed' that's the crowd's answer.","The 'one day' is the ruled — the 'law' that's the '03's change, the 'magazine outside' that's the lesson's form. The 'rescuers died' is the doubled — the 'overpowered' that's the gas's reach, the 'volunteers' that's the descent's crew. Daly-West is the headframed — the 'monument' that's the structure's role, the 'worst' that's the town's record.","The file keeps Daly-West: the gassed levels, the counted dead, the stopped rescue, and the ruled change.","Daly-West is the archive's Utah file — the explosion that rewrote mine law."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Daly-West is the archive's Utah file — the candle that killed 34.","A mine keeps its headframe — the file's suggestion being that Daly-West's hold is the cost: the 'candle' that's the spark's form, the 'rescuers' that's the doubled dead, and the 'one day' that's the law's fix."]}],"name":"Daly West Mine","aliases":[],"type":"MINE","type_label":"Mine","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","ABANDONED_PLACES"],"groups":["dark-history","ghost-towns"],"desc":"Mining-disaster site with a restored headframe.","full_desc":"A mine in Park City, Utah, Daly West Mine is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Mining-disaster site with a restored headframe. HauntHunt files it with dark history and abandoned places. The dossier holds 1 documented fact — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip.","address":null,"city":"Park City","county":"Summit","state":"Utah","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":40.86106,"lon":-111.02049,"coord_kind":"COUNTY","status":"HISTORIC_SITE","access":"UNKNOWN","access_notes":"Historic surface structure; no underground access is implied.","ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Museum places the site in Empire Canyon near Empire Lift; its Main Street mailing address is not the mine. Tourism’s broad haunted-miner story does not identify this shaft precisely and is not added as a site-specific claim.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":57.9,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":1,"paranormal_claim_provenance":null,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[],"history":[{"description":"An underground explosives accident killed 34 miners in 1902; the collapsed headframe was raised again in 2022. The site's documented natural and human history is the record the rest of the file stands on. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. Sources including 'Daly West Mine' carry the record. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Daly West Mine","url":"https://parkcityhistory.org/mining/daly-west-mine/","publisher":"Park City Museum","type":"MUSEUM","authority":2}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[{"name":"Daly West mining disaster","type":"MINING_DISASTER","date_start":"1902-07-15","date_end":null,"description":"On the night of July 15, 1902, a powder explosion tore through the Daly West mine near Park City, and the fumes that followed killed 34 miners — one of Utah's worst mining disasters. Rescue crews pulled bodies from the shaft for days; the blast area and the surviving headframe still stand above town as a memorial to one of the era's deadliest shifts.","evidence":"MINING_DISASTER","source":{"name":"Daly West Mine","url":"https://parkcityhistory.org/mining/daly-west-mine/","publisher":"Park City Museum","type":"MUSEUM","authority":2}},{"name":"Daly West headframe raised","type":"RESTORATION","date_start":"2022-07-01","date_end":null,"description":"After the old headframe collapsed in 2015, preservationists raised a restored Daly West headframe on a new foundation in July 2022 — giving Park City back its most visible piece of silver-era skyline, the structure that once lowered men into the tunnels where 34 of them never came back up. The restored frame doubles as a memorial to the 1902 dead.","evidence":"RESTORATION","source":{"name":"Daly West Mine","url":"https://parkcityhistory.org/mining/daly-west-mine/","publisher":"Park City Museum","type":"MUSEUM","authority":2}}],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[{"name":"John J. Daly","role":"Mine developer","birth":null,"death":null,"bio":"Established the Daly West Mining Company in 1891. The dossier ties John J. Daly to Daly West Mine as mine developer. The entry is documented through 'Daly West Mine'. John J. Daly is filed as a documented person — part of the record the place’s stories hang on."}],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Access details are unverified; research before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Daly West Mine","url":"https://parkcityhistory.org/mining/daly-west-mine/","publisher":"Park City Museum","type":"MUSEUM","authority":2},{"name":"Coal Mine Inspector accident reports inventory","url":"https://archives.utah.gov/research/inventories/series/23008/","publisher":"Utah Division of Archives and Records Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":0,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":2}}