Horrifying Freak Accidents, ⚡ Enters Schuylkill County Anthracite Mine & Sets off 🧨 in 1908 & 1985?!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2024
- In early June 1985, in the definition of a freak accident, a lightning strike entered the B&M Coal Mine Tunnel of the International Anthracite Corporation, not far from Hegins, Pennsylvania, Schuylkill County. The bolt of electricity most likely traveled down the mine rail tracks. Once in the mine, the bolt traveled almost a mile down the main gangway via the haulage tracks to where 5 men were working, where it then set off electric blasting caps and thus set off dynamite charges. In a literal instant, men were covered in rock and coal as an unintended blast had occurred. In a true moment a heroism, the other injured miners suffering from ringing ears, lacerations, and other traumas, pulled the more severely injured miners from the caved-in mine debris.
Sounds weird, right?! What's weirder is the fact that the same exact thing happened just down the road from the B&M Coal Mine 77 years prior!
Be sure to watch the whole video in order to see how bizarre of an event these disasters were!
Those injured in 1985 were:
John Pratt, 32, of Valley View, Pa., Michael McAndrew, 37, Larry Latsko, 37, and Dennis Masser, 28, & Michael Tichy, all of the Ashland, Pa. area. I hope those injured are all doing well to this day, as this mine closed in 1990.
Those killed in the 1908 explosion were: Phillip Ellinger & George Hollenstein.
My source for the 1985 explosion: AP News Article from June 4, 1985 entitled "Five Injured In Dynamite Explosion At Mine".
My source for the 1908 story: The Allentown Leader, August 24, 1908, Titled "Lightning Kills in Mine."
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Wow 😮 how bizzare! I guess the lesson here is keep off the rails when setting charges
Especially during an electrical storm! Wonder what the protocol is today in this era when there's an electrical storm outside and they're blasting, etc. I'd imagine that a lightning bolt can arc very far off of the source, even if they weren't near the rails, it probably had a good distance it could overcome to set off those charges?
@@577buttfan true. The static electricity is a good observation. That ⚡ probably went in so many directions too. Lightning seems to have hunted tunnel drivers down that way. So scary!
Very interesting video! I never would’ve imagined a lightning strike outside of a mine could cause so much damage, destruction, and death inside of a mine. Seems like it would be a very rare occurrence, but the fact that it happened twice 77 years apart is kind of astounding. Cool video! I got a laugh out of the line where you said you had to record the narration in your SUV “because kids were in the house.”
Thanks Frank! Ya man, Pennsylvania has weird weather as you know. It's like the tropics now here, monsoon season. Weird stuff happens in the mountains too with the weather as you probably experience out West.
Ya, the kids make for an interesting work environment for making content...I usually edit from like 11 pm-4 am lol. It's extremely non conducive for creativity 😆.
@@AnthraciteHorrorStories I remember those hot, humid summers back there. And then the bone-chilling, cold winters with all the snow that turns to gray slush on the highways. I don’t miss it at all. Right now the deserts out here are starting to heat up to their summertime temperatures in the 100s. I’m looking forward to getting out there this summer. I love that dry heat!
Wow i never thought this would be an issue, but it makes complete sense that it could occur. Crazy it happened twice in a close area, i wonder where else lightning impacted miners/caused disasters. Great video!!!
Thanks man. Ya, I read another time too where lightning hit an air ventilation or electrical bore hole and electrocuted a miner in an Anthracite mine...I'll have to look that one up again. Bizarre! Probably happened even more than those 3 times to be honest!
I enjoy your anthracite coal mining stories. Especially these obscure events that occurred. Thankyou for the video!!!
Thanks man! 👍
Great video!
Many thanks. I'm working on a Wyoming Valley Horror Story video for tomorrow's release!
@@AnthraciteHorrorStories Awesome, can't wait to see what you release!
@@DC-Instrumentalz 👍
Scary stuff! I can’t imagine the devastation of all this while it unfolded!
Ya, really scary 💩 for sure. The lightning seems to have had a mind of its own!
Exactly what you said @5:22 is what I pictured. The rail carrying all of that current finding the path of least resistance. Unfortunately the dynamite was in that path.
It's pretty sinister. Lol. I know it's electricity, but it's like both times that 💩 had a mind of its own!
Stay out of mines when there's lightning especially 😬!
I just found 2 more coal mine slopes from the 1930s and 40s 10 minutes from where I live! One of them is part of a working that extracted more than 2 million tons of coal. Insane. It was also known for its dangers (methane and crushing)
The other shaft is part of a very small working that employed just 5 men in 1945. (Abandoned in 46)
It’s got the sketchiest entrance I’ve ever seen. Just a near vertical hole of collapsing earth.
Be careful up there in Canada man! For real!
@@AnthraciteHorrorStories These findings will not be entered. Too old and sketch,
@@EPSGplayer I couldn't tell you anything about Canadian coal mines unfortunately, but they're probably somewhat similar. Remember what I said, get that air meter. That's your best friend and ALWAYS let people know where you're at!
@@AnthraciteHorrorStories like I’ve said previously. Nanaimo, British Columbia is built on and surrounded by honeycombs of mine shafts. It’s pretty cool. The vast majority of the public are safe and oblivious, but there’s always a small handful of us that are a little too obsessed and curious lol
@@EPSGplayer trust me man, I know that itching feeling 😂!