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	Knox Mine Disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Knox Mine Disaster was a mining accident that took place near the village of Port Griffith in Jenkins Township, Pennsylvania, near Pittston, on January 22, 1959.
		The River Slope Mine, an anthracite coal mine owned by the Knox Coal Company, flooded when coal company management had the miners dig too close to the riverbed.
		Ten people, including the mine superintendent and August J. Lippi, the president of District 1 of the United Mine Workers, were indicted for on a variety of charges, but only 3 (including Lippi) served jail time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Knox_Mine_Disaster (269 words)

	Knox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Knox College, Otago, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Otago in New Zealand
		Knox Mine Disaster, a mining accident that took place near the village of Port Griffith in Jenkins Township, Pennsylvania
		John Knox, Scottish religious reformer who played the lead part in reforming the Church in Scotland in a Presbyterian manner.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Knox (223 words)

	The Citizens Voice - Local Sports - 01/22/2004 - Knox mine disaster remains in our memory because it is a story of ...
		On this 45th anniversary of the Knox disaster, I would like to review the causes and consequences of the tragedy that initiated the end of the anthracite era, and also consider its historical meaning for the community.
		The Knox disaster was such an egregious violation that it precipitated an extensive federal investigation of the anthracite industry in the Wyoming Valley.
		First, grieve with the Knox victims' families and with others whose relatives were among the multitudes who died underground or otherwise expired as a result of their work in anthracite.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=10845647&BRD=2259&PAG=461&dept_id=460522&rfi=8 (1087 words)

	District 1 History
		The mining is on outcrops (surface exposed anthracite coal), along the banks of the Susquehanna River.
		This is the largest mine disaster to ever occur in the anthracite mine region.
		Knox mine coal disaster - Port Griffith, PA (near Pittston).
	www.msha.gov /District/Dist_01/History/history.htm (857 words)

	Knox Mine Disaster
		The Knox Mine Disaster is still with us, Robert P. Wolensky, an area native and a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin, said in an interview last April.
		The water flooded mines throughout the area and trapped the miners.
		On Jan. 26, efforts began to pump millions of gallons of water from the mine, although it was suspected the 12 missing men were not alive.
	www.rootsweb.com /~paluzern/mines/knox.htm (605 words)

	Those Men Killed up at Knox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Another six traveled to the interconnecting River Slope mine where the nearly exhausted workings were located alongside and under the Susquehanna River in the Pittston Vein, or "the Big Vein," as miners called it.
		State and federal agencies spent nearly $5 million on the disaster, most of it to pump the mines and, later, to divert the Susquehanna and construct permanent concrete-and-sand seals at the point of the breach.
		The aggrieved populace of Northeastern Pennsylvania still remembers the Knox disaster as a breach not only of the Susquehanna River but also of public trust in the mining industry, in its largest union, in government inspectors, and in the broader political economy that permitted such abuse.
	www.dep.state.pa.us /dep/pa_env-her/knoxmine/knoxmine_by_Robert_Wolensky.htm (1085 words)

	Immigrants in Coal Country: Resources : Historical Society of Pennsylvania
		It is organized around two observations: each of the three major mining disasters provide insight on ethnic migration to the region and each of the disasters was followed by the rise of a labor leader.
		As the anthracite regionâs mines were closing or reducing operations, ârunawayâ factories, left Manhattan and found willing workers among the wives and daughters of miners who were unemployed or underemployed.
		The drama of theÂ Knox Mine Disaster of January 22, 1959, is retold through the voices of the survivors, the victims' families, contemporary newspaper accounts, and through the literature and music generated by the tragedy.
	www.hsp.org /default.aspx?id=238 (1499 words)

	mines.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Mining activity in Northeastern Pennsylvania dramatically decreased after January 22, 1959.
		On this date, the Pennsylvania Coal Company illegally mined too close to the Susquehanna River, causing the river to break through the mine's roof.
		This disaster is generally referred to as the Knox Mine Disaster, being named after the mine which caused the flood.
	academic.uofs.edu /faculty/BWC352/mines.htm (198 words)

	Township History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		This mine disaster was the second greatest disaster in the history of anthracite mining.
		On January 22, 1959, the Knox mine disaster (when the Susquehanna River broke through the mine and flooded all the underground mines) ended the deep coal mining era in the entire Wyoming Valley.
		Later coal was strip mined from the surface for several years and today the mining of coal is a thing of the past.
	www.wilkesbarretwppolice.org /township_history.htm (2771 words)

	HI 485 Blogger
		The memorial is to 12 men that died in the Knox Mine Disaster on January 22nd, 1959.
		The Knox mining company was mining under the Susquehanna River, where there was supposed to be 50 feet of rock between the mine and the river, and there were to remain a certain amount of coal pillars a certain thickness.
		The disaster was so large, it flooded many of the mines in the Wyoming Valley and ended the mining industry.
	beotch983.blogspot.com (2748 words)

	Knox Mine Disaster -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The River Slope Mine, an (A hard natural coal that burns slowly and gives intense heat) anthracite (A mine where coal is dug from the ground) coal mine owned by the Knox Coal Company, flooded when coal company management had the miners dig too close to the riverbed.
		Eventually an estimated 10 billion gallons of water filled the mines.
		Ten people, including the mine superintendent and August J. Lippi, the president of District 1 of the (An industrial union of mine workers in North America) United Mine Workers, were indicted for on a variety of charges, but only 3 (including Lippi) served jail time.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/kn/knox_mine_disaster.htm (221 words)

	Activity 2: Mining the Clues of a Disaster Prone Industry : Historical Society of Pennsylvania
		They will consider how regional conditions like mine subsidence, accidents, and disasters affected the workers, their families, the entire community, and shaped the environment of the people who lived in the patch villages.
		The Anthracite era is sandwiched in between two disasters, the Avondale Disaster in 1869 and the Knox Mine Disaster of 1959, which marked the death of the industry.
		In spite of enhanced safety conditions in later decades, mining continued and continues to this day to be a dangerous occupation.
	www.hsp.org /default.aspx?id=143 (724 words)

	Coal_Region (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Strip mines and evidence of mine fires are still visible throughout much of the area.
		The Knox Mine Disaster in 1959 essentially served as the death knell for deep mining within the region; almost all current anthractite mining is done via strip mining.
		These small towns, with populations typically less than 500, were solely owned by the mine; the resident miners were tenants, the general store was owned by the mining concern, and police were mine employees whose most prominent charge was to protect the coal from theft by the residents.
	www.usedaudiparts.com /search.php?title=Coal_Region (498 words)

	The Citizens Voice - Local Sports - 01/21/2004 - Disaster below
		On Jan. 22, 1959, the thaw-swollen waters of the Susquehanna River cracked through the ceiling of the Knox mine beneath the river at Port Griffith.
		The era of deep mining, which had brought the Wyoming Valley untold prosperity and unspeakable hardship and tragedy, was over.
		Of the 81 miners and laborers who went to work in the Knox that day, 33 escaped almost immediately after the river broke through and 36 were rescued during the next eight hours.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=10836859&BRD=2259&PAG=461&dept_id=460522&rfi=8 (1067 words)

	Bob Wolensky writes book on garment makers union
		The trio’s first book, with Bob as head author, was a recounting of the 1959 Knox Mine Disaster, the area’s most notorious mining accident.
		The Wolensky’s third collaboration, "Voices of the Knox Mine Disaster," with Nicole as first author, will be published next year by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
		When mining began to decline in the 1930s and 1940s, many of the wives and daughters of the unemployed miners found work as seamstresses in the clothing industry.
	www.uwsp.edu /news/pr/scWolenskyBook2.htm (714 words)

	EIUAAM Resources - Primary Source Activities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The information and some of the images are used to create a first-hand account of a fictional family from one of the cultures chronicling their experiences as immigrants.
		Overview: Students act as historians by using primary sources (first person, journalistic accounts, drawings and photographs), to gain an understanding of the mining industry, the economic and cultural landscape of the colliery and the patch village, and the immigrant miners and their families.
		Students ask critical questions about the interrelationship of labor and ethnicity in the region and how successive waves of immigrant workers with their own distinct cultural histories and ethnic identifications contributed to and changed the economy, politics, and culture of the region.
	www.eiu.edu /~eiuaam/resources/activities.html (3189 words)

	L&I: Markers L
		As a result of this disaster, Pennsylvania's General Assembly enacted legislation in 1870 in an effort to bring greater safety to the industry.
		As a result of this disaster, Pennsylvania's General Assembly enacted legislation in 1870 which was designed to enforce greater safety in the industry.
		Although its safety recommendations would often be ignored, the disaster was a factor that led to a stronger unionization of this region under John Mitchell after 1900.
	www.dli.state.pa.us /landi/cwp/view.asp?a=11&Q=55072 (2360 words)

	"Black Diamonds", Experience PA's Anthracite Mining Heritage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The Avondale Mine had only one opening and 110 miners were killed when a fire swept the mine in 1869.
		Patterson played a prominent role in the development of the anthracite coal mining trade in Schuylkill County in the 1820's to the 1850's.
		A gravity railroad was built in 1827 to carry coal from the mines near Summit Hill to the Lehigh Canal at Mauch Chunk.
	www.pacoalhistory.com /things_to_do/markers.html (692 words)

	History of Wilkes-Barre, PA - Capt'n Clint's Place
		However, the costs of extracting the clean-burning coal from the deep mine shafts were great in human and environmental terms.
		One by one, the collieries were shutdown, and mine operators moved on to other enterprises, leaving the area with an unemployment rate in excess of 12% after the war.
		Twelve miners died, but thousands more lost their jobs as the entire network of underground mines flooded and forced the end of deep mining in the area.
	home.epix.net /~captclint/history.html (698 words)

	Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal Miners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Records show that anywhere from 32,000 to 35,000 died in Pennsylvania anthracite mine accidents, and some are still buried in those mines.
		An example is the Knox Mine Disaster where the miners broke through to the Susquehanna River and major coal fields disappeared with the flood of water that literally whirl pooled into the mine.
		It is vastly improved due to the oversight of agencies such as the Mine Safety and Health Administration, better safety equipment, better mining equipment and physical care of the miners to watch for fl lung disease.
	www.barndoors.com /CoalMinersStamp/pennsylvania_anthracite_coal_min.htm (1043 words)

	UWSP "Voices of the Knox Mining Disaster"
		The voices of victims’ families and survivors of a 1959 Northeastern Pennsylvania mine disaster tell of loss, corruption, grief and remembrance in a book written by a University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point sociologist and two members of his family.
		The book also examines the ways in which the community has remembered the disaster over the past 46 years through poems, songs and memorials.
		In addition to "The Knox Mine Disaster" and "Voices," with Bob as the main author, the Wolensky’s co-authored "Fighting for the Union Label: The Women’s Garment Industry and the ILGWU in Pennsylvania" in 2002 with Kenneth as the main author.
	www.uwsp.edu /news/pr/chWolenskyVoices.htm (560 words)

	Coal Region-Payer Page, Region and Mines
		"Anthracite Coal Mines and Mining" -- Rosamund Rhone (1902)
		The mine pools consist of water accumulated in void spaces within abandoned underground mines, and deep pools or lakes in abandoned surface mines that are hydrologically connected to abandoned underground mines.
		Mine drainage tunnels drained the sulfur leached water from the lowest levels of all the mines.
	users.rcn.com /sfpayer/CoalR/commcoalr2.htm (10058 words)

	National Canal Museum - Programs/Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Kenneth Wolensky, a historian with the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, presents a slide lecture and book-signing on his recent work, Voices of the Knox Mine Disaster.
		The Knox mine disaster occurred in 1959 when the Susquehanna River broke through the roof of an anthracite coal mine.
		This deadly accident brought underground anthracite coal mining to an end in Pennsylvania’s Wyoming Valley.
	www.canals.org /ncm/programs.asp (150 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Preserving the Language of the Mines DAVID ISEMAN The Boston Globe Aug.
		His sitting room has files of "mine fatality" note cards, line drawings of collieries from centuries past and other artifacts, including a 1910 Coal Miner's handbook.
		I would say it's dormant." Hastie says he believes mining terms are dying out in part because mining was "a mystery profession." Even when area collieries operated at full bore, he said, mining was done out of view of many people.
	www.asu.edu /educ/epsl/LPRU/newsarchive/Art4531.txt (925 words)

	PHMC Announces Publication of New Knox Mine Disaster Book
		The authors are Robert P. Wolensky, professor of sociology and co-director of the Center for the Small City at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Nicole Wolensky, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Iowa and Kenneth C. Wolensky, a historian with PHMC.
		The book tells the story of the 1959 Knox Mine Disaster through the voices of survivors, victims' families, newspaper accounts and through literature and music generated by the tragedy.
		The Knox Coal Company had ordered that the mine be illegally excavated beneath the Susquehanna River and the force of the icy water broke into the mine trapping 81 workers.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/02-01-2005/0002942239&EDATE= (564 words)

	PA State Archives - RG-45 - Series Descriptions - Dept. of Mines and Mineral Industries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Arranged chronologically by year, thereunder by type of mine and nature of the inspection, and then numerically by district.
		Reports of the electrical inspector show the names of the company, district, mine inspector, and electrical inspector; equipment used and a description and location of defective units and corrections ordered. Reports on the cleaning and preparation plant, small mine, deep mine, and strip mine inspections contain routine information on safety matters.
		Documentation of these disasters often includes hearings, reports, bids and contracts, correspondence, photographs and blueprints. The Knox Mine Disaster file contains Joint Legislative Committee Investigation materials and transcripts of laws and resolutions.
	www.phmc.state.pa.us /BAH/DAM/rg/sd/r45sd.htm (401 words)

	Energy Citations Database (ECD) - Energy and Energy-Related Bibliographic Citations
		The Knox mine disaster January 22, 1959: the final years of the northern anthracite industry and the effort to rebuild a regional economy
		Knox Coal mined too close to an overlying waterway with the inevitable result of an influx of water into the mine through the riverbed.
		This book describes the sequence of events leading up to the disaster, and the longer term economic consequences of the flood.
	www.osti.gov /energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=20021373 (195 words)

	January 2000 Observer - Part D (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Drawing on oral histories; federal, state, and union archival materials; newspaper reports; and court records, this study details the precipitating disaster; the escape of 69 miners; and the effort by engineers to devise a method of corking the 175-foot-wide vortex that whirled in the river bed.
		The authors further examine the causes of the disaster, including illegal mining, lax inspections, and union and corporate corruption, and the numerous trials and criminal convictions that followed.
		The Knox Mine Disaster has many implications for natural hazards research, particularly the social and cultural contexts surrounding a hazard's occurrence, prevention, and recovery.
	www.colorado.edu /hazards/o/jano00/jano00d.htm (4403 words)

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