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Tunnel Smokeless Coal Company
Hillside No. 1 Mine Explosion

South Riverside, Cambria County, Pennsylvania
August 9, 1928
No. Killed - 5



Cause of Explosion: Ignition of gas by an electric arc or spark from a mining machine.

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