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Hellraisers Journal – Saturday July 12, 1902
Johnstown, Pennsylvania – Explosion of Gas Claims Many Lives at Rolling Mill Mine
From The Indianapolis Journal of July 11, 1902:
JOHNSTOWN, Pa., July 10.-Two hundred miners entombed by an explosion in a mine whose main shaft opens within the limits of this city was news to check with terror the pedestrians on the streets here to-day.
At first the rumor said that all in the rolling mill mine of the Cambria Steel Company were dead or in danger, but later reports showed that the lower figure was correct and that 400 were safe.
The mine is one of the largest in the country and to-day 600 men were at work there. When the news of the disaster reached here it spread like wildfire and in less than a quarter of an hour the Point, an open space at the junction of Conemaugh and Stony creek, was crowded with women and children. Across from them, in the center of the green hillside, could be seen the dark opening of the mine. It looked as usual, but the women who looked across the waters saw a meaning there that they had not seen before. Some cried, some moaned and little children clasped skirts and cried in sympathy.….
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Quote Mother Jones, Pray for dead, ed, Ab Chp 6, 1925
https://www.iww.org/history/library/MotherJones/autobiography/6
The Indianapolis Journal
(Indianapolis, Indiana)
-July 11, 1902
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015679/1902-07-11/ed-1/seq-1/
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015679/1902-07-11/ed-1/seq-3/
See also:
July 11, 1902, Indianapolis Journal
-Disaster at Rolling Mill Mine, Johnstown PA, July 10, Part I & Part II
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/105525256/july-11-1902-indianapolis/
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/105525405/july-11-1902-indianapolis/
“‘Perpetual impact’: Community commemorates mine disaster with marker, memorial ceremony” by David Hurst, July 11, 2022
https://www.tribdem.com/news/perpetual-impact-community-commemorates-mine-disaster-with-marker-memorial-ceremony/article_402e61be-ffdd-11ec-b2aa-c3b9e203540f.html
Johnson Mountain Boys-Dream Of A Miner’s Child