Looking for more technical information than is commonly found in news reports ? Try the Mine Safety and Health Administration pages for this incident or the general MSHA page. For books about previous mine accidents, try worldcat.org . Some books you might want to check out are: Death underground : the Centralia and West Frankfort mine disasters, The deep dark : tragedy and redemption in America's richest silver mine, Fire and brimstone : the North Butte mining disaster of 1917 Last man out [the story of the Springhill Mine Disaster] For general coal mining information search Worldcat.org for coal mines and mining . A couple of books, recently added to the Devereaux Library, Hard at the rock itself and Hole in the Ground with a Liar at the Top: Fraud and Deceit in the Golden Age of American Mining are worth a look as well. The Devereaux Library also has a number of mining and geology related databases and journals. For research assistance contact the library.
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