On this day in 1917 - 168 men. One spark. A single act of heroism saved 25 lives deep underground — but couldn’t save them all. The 1917 Butte Mine Fire wasn’t just America’s deadliest hard-rock mining disaster… it forever changed Montana’s soul. Read the haunting story.

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