Images of America - Mining Disasters - B424 QuickBooks "The Philadelphia Sound" - record

"The Philadelphia Sound"  -  record companies

Edward Pinkowski has dug carefully into the past

Occasionally additional records are found later as in this case here

With the Workingmen's Benevolent Association

and a brilliant writer meet over a card game in the afterlife

Images of America - Mining Disasters - B424 QuickBooks "The Philadelphia Sound" - recordTen year old Willie Hatton was excited to visit his father at the Avondale Mine on the morning of September 6, 1869. Sadly, Willie would die in his father's arms that day, and so would 108 other miners, all victims of a horrific fire that tore through the shaft, trapping the men and boys and blocking the only exit. The communities of the Wyoming Valley know firsthand the human cost of the anthracite industry. From a cave in at Twin Shaft to an