nov 18, 1908 - Marianna Mine Disaster
Description:
-Bituminous mines of Marianna, PA.-coal for American industrial growth
-explosion, 158 workers dead (Americans, Irish, welsh, Italian, polish_
-showed human cost of industrialization
similar disasters w/ 200+ dead: Scotfield, Utah. Jacobs Creek, PA. Monongah, West Virginia. Cherry, Illinois.
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Date:
nov 18, 1908
Now
~ 116 years ago