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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 ]
Talk spread of a march to free those confined miners, end martial law, and organize the county. In Kanawha County, up to 13,000 miners gathered and began marching toward Logan County on August 24. The reviled anti-union sheriff of Logan County, Don Chafin [91] set up defenses on Blair Mountain, with the nation's largest private armed force of ...
The police department suffered tragedy in May 2015 when K-9 handler LT. Eric Eslary was killed in the line of duty in a motor vehicle accident. His K-9 Blek was also injured and made a full recovery from the accident. K-9 Blek died of natural causes in 2018.
Aug. 22—The driver who died in a rollover crash Monday near Deer Park has been identified. Sherman Akina, 28, died from blunt-force injuries of the head and neck, according to the Spokane County ...
Westmoreland County detectives were notified that on Oct. 27, a woman was driving to work north on Route 119 in East Huntingdon near the Westmoreland-Fayette border when she noticed a black sports ...
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.
A Bellefonte woman died Wednesday in a head-on crash with a semitrailer on a major highway, State College police said. A 68-year-old woman driving an SUV crossed into oncoming traffic about 12:30 ...
A model of the alleged object, created for Unsolved Mysteries, is on display near the Kecksburg fire station.. The Kecksburg UFO incident occurred on December 9, 1965, at Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, United States, when a fireball was reported by citizens of six U.S. states and Canada over Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario.