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The Knox Mine Disaster was a mining accident that took place in Port Griffith, Pennsylvania, near Pittston, on January 22, 1959 when an anthracite coal mine flooded. A weakened structure in unsafe shafts under the Susquehanna River caused the waters of the river to break through into the mine. 12 people died; 62 others escaped.

The accident was later the subject of a song by folk singer Tom Flannery.

Categories: Stub | Disasters | Mining | Luzerne County, Pennsylvania | Engineering failures

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Knox Mine Disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (269 words)
	The Knox Mine Disaster was a mining accident that took place near the village of Port Griffith in Jenkins Township, Pennsylvania, near Pittston, on January 22, 1959.
	The River Slope Mine, an anthracite coal mine owned by the Knox Coal Company, flooded when coal company management had the miners dig too close to the riverbed.
	Ten people, including the mine superintendent and August J. Lippi, the president of District 1 of the United Mine Workers, were indicted for on a variety of charges, but only 3 (including Lippi) served jail time.

Knox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (223 words)
	Knox College, Otago, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Otago in New Zealand
	Knox Mine Disaster, a mining accident that took place near the village of Port Griffith in Jenkins Township, Pennsylvania
	John Knox, Scottish religious reformer who played the lead part in reforming the Church in Scotland in a Presbyterian manner.

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