Throop, PA, United States
Anthracite Mine Disaster. On the morning of April 7, 1911, the nearby Pancoast mine here in Throop was the scene of a disastrous fire. Seventy-two miners died by suffocation, and a government rescue worker also was killed. This tragedy soon led to the enactment, on June 15, of state legislation requ
iring that all interior buildings at coal mines be constructed of incombustible materials.
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