The following article is from the April 24, 1913 edition of The Daily Republican. The lead story was about the huge explosion at the Cincinnati Mine in Courtney PA, just 2 miles from Monongahela. I didn’t have time to transcribe this article but the image should be pretty easy to read:
Great opportunity to get a feel for what our ancesters had to deal with to affiord us a good life today. Thanks for your posting of this info.
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A little known fact about the Cincinnati Mine Disaster that I find really interesting, Joseph Weaver, father of Mr Harold Weaver the longtime music teacher in Monongahela, was killed in the mine.
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Is there a list of the dead available? I believe my great grandfather’s brother, William Warner, was killed in the explosion. His brother, my great grandfather John Joseph Warner, was killed in the Germania mine near Finleyville in 1899.
Steve Warner
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