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Articles and categories related to coal mining disasters in Pennsylvania Pages in category "Coal mining disasters in Pennsylvania" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
The Knox Mine disaster was a mining accident on January 22, 1959, at the River Slope Mine, an anthracite coal mine, in Jenkins Township, Pennsylvania. The Susquehanna River broke through the ceiling and flooded the mine. Twelve miners were killed. The accident marked nearly the end of deep mining in the northern anthracite field of Pennsylvania.
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] It ranks as the worst coal mining disaster in Pennsylvanian history. [2]
On July 24, eighteen coal miners at the Quecreek Mine (/ k juː. k r i k /) in Lincoln Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, owned by Black Wolf Coal Company, accidentally dug into the abandoned, poorly documented Saxman Coal / Harrison #2 Mine, flooding the room and pillar mine with an estimated 75 million US gallons (280,000 cubic metres) of water.
The Sheppton Mine disaster and rescue in Sheppton, Pennsylvania, United States, was one of the first rescues of trapped miners accomplished by raising them through holes bored through solid rock, an event that gripped the world's attention during August 1963. [1]
Elizabeth Pollard, a 64-year-old grandma, was found dead in an abandoned coal mine in Unity Township, Pennsylvania on Friday morning.
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UNITY TOWNSHIP, Pa. (KDKA) — The body of Elizabeth Pollard, the missing 64-year-old woman who fell through a sinkhole while looking for her cat in Unity Township, Pennsylvania, has been found ...