Tank's Poetry
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united states mine rescue association
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See additional Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Company disasters Five are Killed in Explosion; Six Others Badly Burned Altoona Mirror, Pennsylvania January 12, 1910 The party of men under the charge of Foreman David Roberts were doing some repair work in one of the lower veins of the colliery, which is a very gaseous mine. They were equipped with safety lamps and it is presumed by the mining officials that the carelessness of someone in the party in exposing the flame of his lamp caused the gas to ignite and the explosion followed. The shock of the explosion was felt on the surface. A rescuing party was quickly lowered into the mine. Officials of the company, who hastened to the scene, took charge of the work of rescuing the injured, getting out the dead and of fighting the fire. The deceased:
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