Mining Accidents - Lawrence Deklinski- Dalado Photography

Mining Accidents

(05.06.1888) Locust Gap explosion- A car of DuPont powder exploded at a point on the Philadelphia and Reading line, between Mount Carmel and Locust Gap. Eight persons were killed, thirty more or less seriously injured, and property was destroyed to the value of $75,000.

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(05.06.1888) Locust Gap explosion- A car of DuPont powder exploded at a point on the Philadelphia and Reading line, between Mount Carmel and Locust Gap. Eight persons were killed, thirty more or less seriously injured, and property was destroyed to the value of $75,000.

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