BOY DROWNED IN MINE STRIPPING HOLE Ronald Koppenhaver, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clair Koppenhaver, of Keffers, drowned in a water-filled abandoned mine stripping hole at Keffers last Wednesday […]
A 1922 photograph of the new coal breaker at the Brookside Colliery, Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. ____________________________ Corrections and additional information should be added as comments to this post. […]
An undated line drawing of the coal breaker of the Summit Branch Colliery at Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. ____________________________ Corrections and additional information should be added as comments to this […]
HELD FUNERAL FOR MINE ACCIDENT VICTIM SATURDAY Funeral services for Thomas Bowman, 44, of Tower City, who was killed in an accident at an independent mine working last Tuesday [10 […]
A photograph of the Lykens Power Plant of the Short Mountain Colliery, Lykens Valley Coal Company, Bear Gap, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, about 1922, shortly after it went into full operation. […]
An undated photograph of the shaft at East Brookside Colliery, Tower City, Schuylkill Co., Pennsylvania. ____________________________ Corrections and additional information should be added as comments to this post. This photograph […]
A photograph of the fourth and final built breaker at the Short Mountain Colliery of the Lykens Valley Coal Company, Bear Gap, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. It was completed in 1913 […]
An undated photo of the Old Brookside Colliery Breaker at Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Railroad cars are waiting to be loaded with coal at the breaker. ____________________________ Corrections and […]