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Knox Mine Disaster - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Apoplexy, Blow, Breakdown, Calamity, Casualty, Cataclysm, Catastrophe, Cave, Climax, Collapse, Collision, Convulsion, Crash, Diastrophism, Distress, Fatality, Fit, Grief |
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The Knox Mine Disaster was a mining accident that took place in Port Griffith, Pennsylvania, near Pittston, on January 22, 1959 when an anthracite coal mine flooded. A weakened structure in unsafe shafts under the Susquehanna River caused the waters of the river to break through into the mine. 12 people died; 62 others escaped.
The accident was later the subject of a song by folk singer Tom Flannery.
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