A coal dust explosion inside the Centralia Coal Co. Mine No. 5 in Washington County, Illinois, killed 111 miners; 31 survived.
The body of a miner is brought up from the Centralia Coal Co. No. 5 mine at Centralia, Ill., before it was placed in a waiting ambulance to be taken to a temporary morgue, March 26, 1947. On March 25, 1947, a coal dust explosion inside the Centralia Coal Co.
Mine No. 5 in Washington County, Illinois, killed 111 miners; 31 survived.In 1894, Jacob S. Coxey began a march from Massillon , Ohio, to Washington, leading an “army” of as many as 500 unemployed workers to demand help from the federal government following the Panic of 1893 and ensuing depression.Quadruple amputee cornhole player fatally shoots man, Maryland authorities sayTrump administration bans import of new foreign-made routers, citing supply chain and security risks In 1911, 146 people, mostly young female immigrants, were killed when a fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. garment factory in New York; the tragedy led to legal reforms for workers’ rights and workplace safety. In 1931, in the so-called Scottsboro Boys case, nine young Black men were taken off a train in Alabama and accused of raping two white women; after years of convictions, death sentences and imprisonment, they were eventually vindicated. In 1947, a coal dust explosion inside the Centralia Coal Co. Mine No. 5 in Washington County, Illinois, killed 111 miners; 31 survived. In 1965, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 people to the Alabama state Capitol in Montgomery, completing a five-day march from Selma to protest the denial of voting rights to Black Americans.In 1990, 87 people were killed when fire raced through the Happy Land social club in New York City. In 1996, an 81-day standoff by the Montana Freemen, an antigovernment militia, began at a ranch near Jordan, Montana. In 2018, 64 people, including 41 children, died in a shopping center fire in the Russian city of Kemerovo in Siberia. Relatives of the dead complained the shopping center’s emergency exits were locked and the mall’s fire alarms didn’t sound.How DIA keeps TSA security lines at 12 minutes as other airports see hours-long wait times5-year-old Centennial boy allegedly killed by older brother identifiedBeloved Denver outdoor gear store Wilderness Exchange closing its doorsSouthbound I-25 lanes closed in Douglas County after crashFormer Japanese restaurant finds promise in dumplings and dim sum
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