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1924 Indiana (Shanktown) Pennsylvania mine explosion...
1924 Indiana (Shanktown) Pennsylvania mine explosion...
Item # 572921
January 28, 1924
THE DETROIT FREE PRESS, Michigan, January 28, 1924
* Shanktown, Pennsylvania - Indiana, Pennsylvania
* Mine explosion disaster
This 18 page newspaper has a nice banner headline on the front page:
"36 KNOWN DEAD, 4 MISSING IN SHANKTOWN MINE BLAST" with subheads. (see)
Tells of the explosion of the Lancashire #18 mine of the Barnes and Tucker Coal Company at Shanktown, Pennsylvania, near Indiana, Pennsylvania.
Other news of the day. Light browning, otherwise good.
Category: The 20th Century