Knox Mine disaster
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knox-mine-disaster-290-4065133
title:
Knox Mine disaster
text:
The Knox Mine disaster was a mining accident on January 22, 1959, at the River Slope Mine in Jenkins Township, Pennsylvania. The disaster occurred when workers were ordered to dig illegally under the Susquehanna River without proper safety precautions, creating a hole in the riverbed which caused the river to flood into the many interconnected mine galleries in the Wyoming Valley between the right-bank town of Exeter, Pennsylvania, and the left-bank town of Port Griffith in Jenkins Township, nea
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description:
1959 coal mining accident in Pennsylvania, United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knox_Mine_disaster
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date modified:
2024-02-02T04:47:28Z
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