On August 31, 1936, four brothers died in a Metz coal mine disaster in Fulton, Missouri. Three of the brothers died trying to rescue their brother. They were killed by carbon monoxide escaping from a gasoline engine in the Metz Mine. The engine was being used to power a pump to remove water standing in the 30-foot deep shaft.
Columbia firemen were called to remove the four bodies and helped save a fifth worker who was in serious
condition. Mine owner Louis Metz and his father-in-law were overcome by gas as they went into the mine to pump
water. The miner s three younger brothers came to help and they too fell victim to the deadly gas.
