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Memorial to the Darr Mine disaster Entrance of the Darr Mine, now covered in forest; photographed June 2011. The Darr Mine disaster at Van Meter, Rostraver Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, near Smithton, killed 239 men and boys on December 19, 1907. [1]
In a news conference Sunday, Gov. Josh Shapiro confirmed that 50-year-old Corey Comperatore, of Sarver, in Butler County, was killed by gunfire. Pennsylvania State Police later identified James ...
One person died Tuesday when a tornado ripped through the small city of Westmoreland in northeastern Kansas, destroying houses, RVs and outbuildings, authorities said. Pottawatomie County ...
The Mammoth Mine disaster or Frick Mine explosion occurred on January 27, 1891 just after 9:00 AM in the Mammoth No. 1 mine in Mount Pleasant Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. [1] Newspapers reported [ 2 ] that firedamp was ignited by a miner's oil lamp , resulting in the deaths of 109 men and boys.
Derry and Latrobe were linked by the Westmoreland County Railway Company, which was an interurban operating from 1904 to 1932. [8] A helicopter crash into a crowd assembled for a festival at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Derry killed eight people and injured 18 others on Labor Day, 1978.
Nov. 13—A Westmoreland County judge on Monday dismissed criminal charges against a Southwest Greensburg woman who prosecutors said was responsible for the fatal overdose of her live-in boyfriend ...
A 36-year-old Annville woman was in a fatal crash that shutdown Route 322 Friday morning, according to the Derry Township Police Department. At 3:28am, police responded to the 800 block of East ...
There was one fatal accident and one non-fatal accident in 1920. Production diminished in the early 1920s, dropping to less than 30,000 short tons (27,000 long tons; 27,000 t) of coal a year. By 1926, however the United Mine was reaching its greatest output, producing more than 400,000 short tons (360,000 long tons; 360,000 t) of coal, most of ...