Original 1947 Associated Press wire photo measuring 8⅛ x 6¾ inches. The original caption is attached to the bottom edge of the photograph with a single piece of tape and remains present. The image shows anxious family members and townspeople gathered around the Knox Coal Company mine shaft in Exeter, Pennsylvania, after an explosion approximately 350 feet below the surface. The disaster killed at least nine miners and injured nine others, while relatives waited for news of those still unaccounted for. A powerful Pennsylvania mining history photograph from the immediate aftermath of the tragedy. From the archive of a Pittsburgh area newspaper.
