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18 Δεκ 2019 · In a small mining village called Stockton, multiple homes collapsed into a mine cave-in created by miners working too close to the surface. Six people were killed when the buildings plummeted into a hole later estimated to be at least 400 feet deep.
19 Δεκ 2023 · On December 18, 1869, the mining village of Stockton, Pennsylvania, experienced a catastrophic mine collapse. As the ground gave way beneath homes, the Rough and Swank families were tragically swallowed into a massive chasm caused by unsafe mining practices.
Some are more noticeable than others, and some have had significant impacts on the landscape with tragic outcomes. The most noted and well commemorated is the Stockton Mine disaster. The Stockton Mine subsidence occurred at 5:00 A.M. on December 18, 1869, claiming 10 lives.
26 Δεκ 2018 · The disaster happened when a hole opened up, dropping three houses roughly forty feet into the mine with no warning. The first two houses that fell into the mine belonged to the Swank and the Rough families.
Hazleton, Penn., December 18.-Another terrible mining accident occurred at 5 o'clock this morning at Stockton, near this place. A coal mine caved in, filling the shaft and tunnel with enormous masses of earth, carrying two large housed down with it, and choking the entrance to the mine.
I took this video on 3/26/16 in Hazelton, Pennsylvania. December 18, 1869 in the village of Stockton, PA, at approximately 5:00 in the morning, a coal mine caved in, filling the shaft and...
1 ημέρα πριν · Stockton, 16 miles north of Tamaqua, was a busy hamlet of 1,200 people, home to East Sugar Loaf Mines when coal was king. To maximize output, miners sometimes “robbed the pillars.” Pillars were columns of coal left in place to support the mine roof.
