On this day 99 years ago -- May 27, 1925 -- the largest industrial disaster in the history of North Carolina happened near the county line between Chatham and Lee counties, a coal mine explosion that ...
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Remembering the mining disaster that took the lives of dozens of West Virginia coal miners
FARMINGTON, WV (WVNS) — Coal mining is deeply ingrained with West Virginia history, which includes various mine disasters ...
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How One Fire Turned an American Town Into a Wasteland
In 1962, a routine landfill burn in the Pennsylvania town of Centralia ignited something far more dangerous — a coal seam that stretched beneath the entire community. What started as a small fire ...
In one long, musical sentence, Krivak (The Bear) unspools the luminous story of Ondro, a son of Slovak immigrants and the only survivor of a 1929 Pennsylvania coal mine disaster. The narrative traces ...
MARGUERITE, Pa. - A grandmother looking for her lost cat apparently fell into a sinkhole that had recently opened above an abandoned western Pennsylvania coal mine and rescuers worked late into the ...
Three days after a Pennsylvania woman searching for her cat disappeared at the chasm of a three-story deep sinkhole, the digging crews were back at it Thursday, hoping for a miracle but expecting to ...
Kenny Pollard, 75, holds a photo in his home from a vacation that he and his wife, Elizabeth, took to Clearwater Beach, Fla., approximately 10 years ago. Law enforcement members watch as rescue ...
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