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The Hurricane Creek Mine Memorial is the memorial commemorating the 1970 Finley Mine explosion, which killed thirty-eight coal miners [8] and left one survivor. The memorial is located in Leslie County, Kentucky [9] built on the Finely Mine site. The memorial was planned by the friends and families of the lost miners to honor them.
The Cherry Mine disaster was a fire in the Cherry, Illinois, coal mine in 1909, and surrounding events, in which 259 men and boys died. The Millfield Mine Disaster 1930 in Ohio killed 82 men. From 1880 to 1910, mine accidents claimed thousands of fatalities.
On the morning of Aug. 4, 1917, a methane gas explosion at the Western Kentucky Coal Company’s No. 7 mine in Webster County killed 62 of the 153 men underground at the time. The other 91 men in ...
As reported in a May 23, 2006 story in The Courier-Journal, [2] "Investigator thinks methane to blame for Darby mine explosion," by Deborah Yetter and Tom Loftus, at a news conference in Holmes Mill, Kentucky on May 22, 2006, Chuck Wolfe, spokesman for Kentucky's Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet announced that investigators entered the mine for the first time since the explosion on ...
The miner died when a massive section of the roof fell at an underground mine in Eastern Kentucky. Safety lapses caused accident that killed Kentucky coal miner, federal agency says Skip to main ...
INEZ, Ky. (AP) — One man has died after he and a coworker were trapped beneath tons of concrete and steel when an 11-story building being demolished collapsed at an abandoned eastern Kentucky ...
Scofield Mine disaster: Accident – coal mine Scofield, Utah: Fatalities estimated 195 1928 Mather Mine disaster: Accident – coal mine Mather, Pennsylvania: 192 1898 The Portland: Accident – shipwreck Gloucester, Massachusetts: 190–250 1847 SS Phoenix (1845) Accident – shipwreck Lake Michigan: 187+ 1890
Image credits: @fuaege These two adorable pandas were born on the 7th of July and were the first twin giant panda cubs born in the country. Their names were chosen through a public selection ...