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A mile west of here on June 16, 1890, 31 miners were killed by a gas explosion at the Hill Farm Mine, owned by the Dunbar Furnace Company. The explosion was one of the deadliest in the history of the coke region. Two bodies were recovered at the time of the disaster, and the remaining 29 were not recovered until 1892.
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Dunbar, Pennsylvania · United States
