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.
A driving rain saturated the landscape at Mabel, Friday, as the body of Gary Klinger, 19, one of the Porter Tunnel disaster victims, was buried. His parents, Earl Klinger and Betty Klinger, left, walk beside the young minerworker’s coffin. (UPI)
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From Newspapers.com.
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