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Sep 7, 2009 | Posted by: roboblogger

Avondale mine disaster recalled

Full story: The Times-Tribune

A light, cool draft wafts up the mine shaft at the abandoned, crumbling remains of the Avondale Colliery in Plymouth Twp., and as two dozen people gathered around Sunday evening, the draft seemed to carry the 140-year-old story of how a fire killed 110 men in the mines.

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