The Avondale Mine disaster was a massive fire at the Avondale Colliery near Plymouth Township, Pennsylvania, on September 6, 1869. It caused the death of 110 workers. It started when the …

2019年3月4日 · On September 6, 1869, the Avondale Mine Disaster claimed 110 lives, marking Pennsylvania's deadliest anthracite coal mining tragedy. Learn about the events that led to …

2018年8月3日 · In one of the worst disasters of this era, a fire at the Avondale Colliery in Plymouth, Pa., trapped and killed 108 miners, including five boys, as well as two men who …

2019年9月5日 · On Monday Sept. 6, 1869, the absolute worst fear of every miner’s family occurred. The wooden coal breaker, which was situated directly above the one and only mine …

Avondale was the most severe disaster to occur in the anthracite region. Illustrations of the disaster appearing in an 1869 copy of Harper’s Weekly. Contributors: John Pagoda. See also: …

2005年6月10日 · It took the September 6th, 1869, fire at the Avondale Colliery in Plymouth, PA, and the deaths of 110 anthracite miners to focus the public's attention on mining safety. From …

2020年9月6日 · The Avondale Colliery mine near Plymouth, Pennsylvania caught on fire, killing 110 workers. This disaster — one of the first major coal disasters in the United States — led to …

On the 6th inst. the telegraph wires transmitted news throughout the land that appalled every heart,-one hundred and ten men, the dispatch informs us, were buried in a mine at Avondale, …

Tragedy at Avondale : the causes, consequences, and legacy of the Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal Industry's most deadly mining disaster, September 6, 1869 by Wolensky, Robert P

2009年9月5日 · At about 10 a.m. on Sept. 6, 1869, Alexander Weir, engineer at the Avondale Colliery in Plymouth, was startled by a sudden rush of fire up the shaft. It came with great fury …