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Author | : Constance Horne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780888650917 |
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"Readers learn about a turbulent time in British Columbia history - circa 1916 - in this absorbing book about a coal-mining family that tries to escape the difficult mining life" Cf. Our choice, 1996-1997
Author | : Karen Tintori |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2018-02-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0743428048 |
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A gripping account of the worst coal mine fire in US history—the 1909 Cherry Mine Disaster that claimed the lives of 259 men. "Drawing on diaries, letters, written accounts of survivors and testimony from the coroner's inquest...Tintori's engaging prose keeps readers on the edge" (Publishers Weekly). Inspired by a refrain of her girlhood—"Your grandfather survived the Cherry Mine disaster"—Karen Tintori began a search for her family's role in the harrowing tragedy of 1909. She uncovered the stories of victims, survivors, widows, orphans, townspeople, firefighters, reporters, and mine owners, and wove them together to pen Trapped, a riveting account of the tragic day that would inspire America's first worker's compensation laws and hasten much-needed child labor reform. On a Saturday morning in November of 1909, four hundred and eighty men went down into the mines as they had countless times before. But a fire erupted in the mineshaft that day and soon burned out of control. By nightfall, more than half the men would either be dead or trapped as officials sealed the mine in an attempt to contain the blaze. Miraculously, twenty men would emerge one week later, but not before the Cherry Mine disaster went down in history as the worst ever coal mine fire in the US—and not before all the treachery and heroism of mankind were revealed.
Author | : Constance Horne |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781895766486 |
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...good social history for young readers. The deftly woven plot and quick pacing will propel readers through the novel as they gain a sense of the desperation people can feel when they are trapped... -- Quill & Quire
Author | : Janis Barr |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 14 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Children's literature |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Ruth Johnson Jay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Christian life |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Héctor Tobar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Copper miners |
ISBN | : 9781473635104 |
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August 2010: the San Jose mine in Chile collapses trapping 33 men half a mile underground for 69 days. Faced with the possibility of starvation and even death, the miners make a pact: if they survive, they will only share their story collectively, as 'the 33'. 1 billion people watch the international rescue mission. Somehow, all 33 men make it out alive, in one of the most daring and dramatic rescue efforts even seen.
Author | : Terry Brazier |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2015-06-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1504915917 |
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On a cold February morning in 1908, the ground under Coal Valley, Illinois, trembled as an earthquake opened the earth, collapsed mining tunnels, and created chasms and fissures as deep as five hundred feet below the rolling hills. It would forever be known as Coal Valleys great cave-in. Thirteen men lay trapped for three months as tensions rose among the townspeople, rescuers, and families of the trapped miners. One rescue attempt after another failed due to aftershocks, weather, and just plain bad luck. The dangers were great below ground, but the twisted minds of some of the towns inhabitants made the danger even greater at the surface. A story of adventure, suspense, greed, romance, fantasy, and redemption that will leave the reader wondering who or what was actually trapped under Coal Valley. Was it just the miners, the apparitions that they faced, or was it the underground dwellers whose intelligence was advancing at such a rapid pace that they were preparing for their place in the sun?
Author | : Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Staff |
Publisher | : Triumph Books (IL) |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781572435377 |
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For five days in July 2002, the world's attention was focused on the fate of nine coal miners trapped 245 feet underground in western Pennsylvania, not 13 miles from the horrific end of September 11's Flight 93. Seven hours into their afternoon shift, a machine they were operating suddenly broke through a wall, unleashing a torrent of water from an adjacent abandoned mine. With the miners out of sight and the aboveground heroics largely shielded from view, the drama that captured the public imagination was far from complete. Their desperate struggle to survive as the water continued its inexorable rise was played out in cramped darkness. The final, heart-stopping moments provided the storybook ending, but the real story was yet to be told--until now. The miners are home, the rescuers are back at their day jobs, investigations have begun, and, as the story inside All Nine Alive reveals, what really happened in those desperate hours was more breaktaking than we knew.
Author | : Andrew Morton |
Publisher | : Andrews McMeel Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Coal mine accidents |
ISBN | : 9781843170136 |
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The story of the Black Wolf Coal Company's Quecreek No. 1 mine, the nine men who were trapped 200 feet below ground, and the heroic efforts of the rescuers who managed to bring the trapped miners back to the surface.
Author | : Gerald L. McKerns |
Publisher | : GERALD MCKERNS |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781425753009 |
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The Black Rock That Built America explains how, on the backs of thousands of European immigrants, America was transformed from a mostly rural nation into the world's greatest industrial power. As the nation expanded in the nineteenth century, anthracite coal fueled the making of steel, the building of railroads, the operation of factories, and the heating of homes. This book tells of the struggles these immigrant miners endured while performing the grueling and dangerous work of extracting anthracite coal from the earth in order to earn their place in America.