State Library of Pennsylvania - Miscellany

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Items include a report on the 1907 Dar Mine Disaster relief efforts; the Twin Shaft mining disaster investigation, 1986, Early Indian history along the Susquehanna River, Problem of the Irish in America speech, 1886, American Freeman, 1867.
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Report of William Stein, Edward Roderick, and Edward Brennan, who were requested by the Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to investigate the disaster which occurred at the Twin Shaft colliery, Pittston, Pennsylvania, on the morning of the twent
Report of William Stein, Edward Roderick, and Edward Brennan, who were requested by the Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to investigate the disaster which occurred at the Twin Shaft colliery, Pittston, Pennsylvania, on the morning of the twenty-eighth day of June, 1896.
Twin Shaft Colliery, (Pittston, Pa.), Coal mines and mining -- Pennsylvania -- Safety measures, Coal mine accidents -- Pennsylvania.
The 160-page official report investigating the cause of a disastrous mine accident that happened on 28 June 1896, taking the lives of 58 miners. The greater part of this book consists of the transcribed testimony of the witnesses before the mine inspectors. The report itself ends (pp. 17-18) with 5 recommendations "to guard against and prevent a repetition of such accidents." Pages 131-133 contain a list of the names of all the deceased and of their dependents, the relation of dependent to miner, and the age of the children.