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Westmoreland County, PA Coal mining Strike 6 (plus 9 miners' wives) [51] Westmoreland County coal strike of 1910–1911: 70 percent of the miners were Slovak immigrants. Employers used force to intimidate striking miners, partially paying the cost for the Coal and Iron Police, local law enforcement and the Pennsylvania State Police.
Nov. 10—A man died at the Westmoreland County Prison in September as a result of an accidental drug overdose, Coroner Tim Carson said Friday. Terry L. Brumley Jr., 33, was discovered ...
An “all-American” family of four was found dead in their Pennsylvania home in what officials suspect to be an “unthinkable” murder-suicide. Pennsylvania State Police said Paul Swarner, 35 ...
The Westmoreland County coal strike was the setting for one of the more colorful incidents in the life of Mary Harris Jones, better known as "Mother Jones". Even though she was 73 years of age, Mother Jones agreed to travel to Westmoreland County to support the United Mine Workers in their strike. [citation needed]
Nov. 6—Westmoreland County commissioners have agreed to settle a lawsuit that claimed excessive force was used against a teen at the county's juvenile detention center in Hempfield. In the ...
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.
Pennsylvania State Police later identified James Copenhaver, 74, of Moon Township, Allegheny County, and David Dutch, 57, of New Kensington, in Westmoreland County, as having been wounded in the ...
The Morewood massacre was an armed labor-union conflict in Morewood, Pennsylvania, in Westmoreland County, west of the present-day borough Mount Pleasant in 1891. Casualties and causes [ edit ]