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116 Years ago today My Great Great Grand Father...Henry Harvey along with 12 others lost their lives in a coal mine...this mine was and is under the Du Bois Mall... DuBois, Pennsylvania March 23, 1896 TERRIBLE MINE EXPLOSION. 13 Men Killed Outright The following miners were killed today by an explosion in the Berwind-White mine: Their names are as follows: GEORGE HARVEY HENRY HARVEY REUBEN NOBLE HENRYY SMITH, JAMES GRAHAM, Sr., JAMES GRAHAM, Jr. LINDSEY H. BRADLEY JOHN MONROE JESSE POSTLEHWAITE GEO. POSTLETHWAITE ANDREW NOWAK DAVID BELL GEORGE AINSLEY The Accident at the Berwind-White Mine Was Caused by the Firing of a Charge. BODIES FRIGHTFULLY MANGLED The dead were kept below until their mangled bodies could be made presentable. They were washed, wrapped in blankets and then sent up, many wives, and mothers who were crowding around the mouth of the shaft, fainted at the sight of the dead bodies. The mine on the north side was wrecked, beams and supports were smashed into match wood. Rails were twisted and the roof caved in. The victims all met their deaths from the force of the explosion. I found Henry's grave at Rumbarger last year...

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???? With water, gas and electricity, arc street lights, the town took on city airs with the opening of the nineties, and there began really serious talk of a street railway. The Griers, Bostwick, Jimmy Lane, with the aid of the Bailey brothers of Ford City, who came to look over the prospects for an electric car line from the DuBois House, east side, to Electric Park, end of South Main street. That venture was of magnitude and took time and a good lot of capital. Meantime John Bierly came to take hold of the Commercial hotel corner lot, and the new three-story brick hotel was to replace the one-story red brick structure in which the banks had burned out. E. Kuntz had built the brick home at the rear of Commercial building; Griers and Henry Knorr rebuilt in brick, the latter three rooms, two stories high; the postoffice now occupied the new brick next to the Deposit bank building toward Scribner; the LeGrande Hotel was a new brick north side Booth; Henry Knorr had his new brick house at corner Long and Stockdale; St. Paul's church went up next Bilger's livery on Scribner; the Methodists got a new location and built a brick church at corner of Long and High; the new Central hotel went up in brick at corner Long and Evans.

Bundy's and Duttry's here too...

He was a very Important man...I am tired of people who are not from this area...who have no family ties to the area...or who just don't care...

Just wondering how the stories are coming...

Another treasure I just received...my Grand father was born in 1889...he is in the bottom left of the photo...William John Harvey...he worked for the Berwind White Coal mine...shaft #1 He and his family lived in what was called Shaffer Siding...He was a miner by the time he was 10 years old...His Father was one of the 13 miners killed in the explosion of that mine on March 23 1896...The uniforms they are wearing have the logo JED if you look close...I believe it means JE DuBois something...hopeing someone might know more...

I was just given this photo...I know my dad is in it but I have no Idea which child he is...thought someone else might enjoy the photo

1942 WCED VICTORY COOK BOOK DUBOIS PENNSYLVANIA http://www.ebay.com/itm/1942-WCED-VICTORY-COOK-BOOK-DUBOIS-PENNSYLVANIA-/250908579202?pt=US_Nonfiction_Book&hash=item3a6b511582#ht_2540wt_1195

My dad was a maintenance man for DASD back in the 70's ...I know I have some pictures...I will try to look them up for you...anything in particular you're looking for ?

My Great Great Grand father was one of the 13 miners killed March 23 1896,,,I just learned of this in March,,,he was laid to rest in RUMBARGER cemetery,,,after I finally found his grave I was amazed....

I am a decedent of people in the cemetery,,,I started tracing my family history and found out that my Great Great Grand Father was killed in the mine explosion on March 23 1896,,,the mine that was by the Du Bois mall,,,I have found an article from the courier express,,,in the library that states "If this town EVER forgets about these men who's lives were taken from them in such a horrible way,,,this town should be FOREVER be ashamed....If I had known his grave would not look like this

My husbands grandfather is on the right,,,photo taken about 1916...does anyone have any info on this team,,,local DuBois or Sandy twp

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