The anthracite industry of Pennsylvania ... the mine inspectors show hat within the year 1,066 persons were injured in the mines, and 275 killed outright. As a result of the fatal mining accidents ...

They were accidents waiting to happen. The Darr Mine, operated by the Pittsburgh Coal Company and located in south-western Pennsylvania, was one such mine. A cloud of dust and smoke instead of her ...

But, today, that mining has hollowed out the ground beneath us. Pennsylvania’s inventory of abandoned coal mines is larger than that of any other state in the nation, and the Keystone State has ...

UNITY TOWNSHIP, Pa ... firefighters, mining experts, and search and rescue teams have spent nearly two full days digging, shoring up and searching an abandoned coal mine behind Monday's Restaurant ...

It was clear in the early 1800s that Schuylkill County’s coal deposits were going to become big business. Investors like Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia banker and one of the richest men in the world, ...