The Porter Tunnel mine disaster occurred on March 1, 1977, near Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Related photos appeared in editions of the Evening Herald, Pottsville, on subsequent dates.
The wife, top photo, and daughter, bottom photo, of Philip Sabatino are led grief stricken from the scene after learning that the body of the miner had been found in Porter Tunnel Wednesday afternoon. Sabatino was caught in the initial avalanche and probably suffocated. (UPI)
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From Newspapers.com.
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