In April 1871, a journalist descended into the anthracite coal mines near Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, emerging with one of the most vivid firsthand accounts of underground life and work in the Coal Region. Published in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, the story told of the mineworkers and their nonchalant efforts to blast rock and coal hundreds of feet below ground. Inside the mine, men worked by the light of open-flame lamps on their caps …
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