The calamity known as the Knox Mine Disaster exposed breathtaking corruption ... Workers eventually plugged the hole with railroad cars, boulders, dirt and hay bales. But the damage was done.

resident Ed Philbin, an engineer with the Reading & Northern Railroad and noted railroad ... Anthracite Mining History Month, the Knox Mine Disaster Historical Markers Commemoration, will be ...

The Knox Mine Disaster claimed the lives of 12 miners. Rail cars were dropped into the whirlpool created by the Knox Mine Disaster in an effort to plug the hole. Workers search for survivors of ...

Monday will mark 65 years since 12 men lost their lives in the Knox Mine disaster. Those 12 miners ... mine break-in site along the Luzerne County rail trail.

The calamity known as the Knox Mine Disaster exposed breathtaking corruption ... Workers eventually plugged the hole with railroad cars, boulders, dirt and hay bales. But the damage was done.

The Knox Mine Disaster, named for the Knox Coal Company ... following a hike in the snow along railroad tracks near the river. Francik and other men in the group pointed to a nearby cliff where ...

Though the lives of the victims of the Knox Mine Disaster were lost, the memories of the 12 men have continued to live on, honored and commemorated as they were on Sunday at the Baloga Funeral ...

(WBRE/WYOU) — Wednesday marked 66 years since the Knox Mine Disaster. On January 22, 1959, ice filled the Susquehanna River and broke the roof of the river slope mine at Port Griffith ...

Wolensky, in his 1999 book, “The Knox Mine Disaster,” the situation at River ... from shore into the breakthrough area. Later, a railroad track was rerouted, and huge rail gondolas designed ...

When the walls of Knox Mine began to crumble and collapse 57 years ago, Robert J. Thomas’ grandfather Myron Thomas knew he had a job to do. “He saved … 25 men that day,” said Robert J.

PITTSTON, Pa. — As families walked along the Susquehanna River through Jenkins Township and Pittston City Sunday, they were reminded of the Knox Mine disaster 64 years ago that changed deep ...