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Knox Mine disaster
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Knox Mine disaster
The
Knox Mine disaster
was a
mining accident
on January 22, 1959, that is widely credited with single-handedly killing the mining industry in the
Northern Anthracite Region
of Pennsylvania. The
Susquehanna River
broke through into the many interconnected mine galleries in the
Wyoming Valley
between west/right-bank town of
Exeter, Pennsylvania
and
Port Griffith
, a left/east bank town in
Jenkins Township, Pennsylvania
, near
Pittston
. Mitigation efforts created several new islands between the two towns and altered the western-side flow of the Susquehanna around these.
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