Tag: mining

For four days, rescuers searched the wrecked Layland Mine in West Virginia believing that nearly everyone trapped below had perished. The gas explosion had devastated…

It was the summer of 1920, and the coal fields of southeastern Kansas stood on the brink of another labor showdown. Less than a year…

In the bitter cold of a January morning in 1883, the people of Wilkes-Barre’s Five Points neighborhood were jolted awake by a sound like an…

The Cross Mountain coal mine disaster was already a scene of grief, smoke, and exhaustion when rescuers made a terrible discovery: not all of the…

In the coal regions of western Pennsylvania, danger was never far beneath the surface.  Men went underground each day into narrow passages where darkness, gas,…