Content filed under the Miners category. ... 1948 MINE WORKER Loses Hand In Accident - Calvin Amos, 24, of 303 Coal Street, Wilkes Barre, ... Place & Manner of Miner's Death: Wilkes-Barre, PA, advanced heart disease Died: April 22, 1969 ...
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Around 1769, Obadiah Gore, a blacksmith in the Wilkes-Barre area, .... The 1869 Avondale mine disaster in which 110 miners were killed focused public ...
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Counties of the Coal Region of Pennsylvania, known for anthracite mining. Anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania. The Coal Region is a historically important coal-mining area in Northeastern Pennsylvania in the central Ridge-and-valley Appalachian Mountains, comprising Lackawanna, Luzerne, Columbia, Carbon, Schuylkill, .... The Knox Mine Disaster in 1959 served as the death knell for deep mining ...
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Luzerne. 94 11th. 3590 anthracite. 67 Pyne. Glen Alden Coal. 1928. 10 .... County. Page#. Mining. District Film# Coal Type. 10 Old Forge. Pennsylvania Coal.
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Feb 6, 2016 ... The ghost would enter the mine with his pick and his lamp every night, ... mines of the Wyoming Coal Fields experienced an average of five fatalities each month. ... to be a coal miner in the anthracite fields of Luzerne County.
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Mine Accidents and Other Information ... 1911 5th District, Luzerne & Lackawanna County, Fatal Accidents · 1911 5th District, Luzerne & Lackawanna County, ...
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Good mining and other data (collieries, mining deaths, cemeteries, ... Luzerne County Folkfinders (genealogical info, lists of coal ...
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Apr 4, 2013 ... That disaster happened right in Wilkes-Barre. ... WILKES-BARRE -- After almost 100 years, the second largest industrial disaster in Pennsylvania is finally getting some ... Now the Baltimore Mine Tunnel disaster is being remembered, and ... and Victor, were both killed," said Katie Lavery of Wilkes-Barre.
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Jul 3, 2018 ... Chart lists date, mine name, city, state, number killed, mining sector (coal, limestone, etc.) and type of accident (explosion, fire, etc.). NIOSH also ...
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1884 Geological Map of Luzerne County; 1910 Miner's Certificate; 1910 ... 1910 Hazle Mines group photo ---NEW---; Memories of a coal country past, from ... My mom said she was scared to death to go out there in the middle of the night.
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Feb 26, 2013 ... Information for historical mine disasters was obtained from the ... Bureau of Mines Bulletin 509, Injury Experience in Coal Mining, 1948; Bureau ...
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Date, Mine Name, Location, Mineral, Disaster Cause, Killed ... Luzerne County, PA, Bituminous, Explosion, 4 ... Wilkes-Barre, PA, Anthracite, Explosives, 92 ...
Get A Free QuoteVirtual tour of rare photos of coal mining around the turn of the century in Lackawanna - Scranton ... Near Steamtown, Pennsylvania (PA) ... ANTHRACITE COAL MINING IN THE SCRANTON STEAMTOWN POCONO WILKES BARRE REGION ... They wounded 49 men and killed 19 and yet no one was ever put to trial.
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Aug 29, 2014 ... fall of coal. 42 11th. 3587 anthracite. 84 South Wilkes Barre. 1916. 8 17 Abrams. John. 45 nonfatal inside miner. Polish alien explosion of gas.
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Scranton, Pennsylvania ... Of the thirteen men killed in the Diamond Mine accident, only one, Thomas S. Thomas, was .... Devers of Wilkes-Barre, representing the United Mine Workers, as chief of their legal department, was at the same table.
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Apr 3, 2011 ... Taxicabs and private cars carried newspaper boys to the mine, ... a rescue crew from the U.S. Bureau of Mines based in Wilkes-Barre had ... a hard coal mine in Pennsylvania in which such an accident could have happened.
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Extracted from the Reports of Mine Inspectors. Mine Accidents and Other Information. Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. Mining Accidents United States, Canada, ...
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Beaver Brook, PA Mine Accident, Mar 1916 ... Brownsville, PA Blair Hill Coal & Coke Mine Accident, Feb 1904 ... Wilkes-Barre Times, Evening Sun, Hanover.
Get A Free QuoteDate, Name of Mine, Location of Mine, Killed, Cause. January 12, 1846 ... November 26, 1886, Conyngham, Wilkes-Barre, PA, 12, Explosion. April 27, 1887 ...
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That event would come 63 years later in 1959 with the Knox Mine Disaster. ... Disaster effectively killed anthracite coal mining in Northeastern Pennsylvania.
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The oldest Polish Colony in Luzerne County dates from the year 1868. ..... 12,032 men killed within the 20 year period 5,656 were miners.23 According to mine ...
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The Pennsylvania State Archives hold numerous collections which pertain to persons either ... while the bituminous fields underlie most of the western counties, as well as ... Registers of Mine Accidents, Anthracite, Bituminous and Non-Coal, ...
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But it took the Avondale deaths to get a law enacted that prohibited coal ... Fifty-eight men died during a mine cave-in at a colliery in Luzerne County. Miners ... many bituminous mine workers in western Pennsylvania, but anthracite miners had ...
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and prepare former coal mining lands in Luzerne County for productive reuse. In 1994 ... Throughout much of Pennsylvania's history, coal was a key driver of ... injured, killed, or suffered property damage from unsafe and unstable mines.
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8 South Wilkes Barre. 1907. 1 14 Andresky. John. 45 fatal inside miner. Lithuanian citizen married. 4 fall of fire clay unavoidable. 100 7th. 3586 anthracite.
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