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Carbondale, PA Coal Mine Cave In, Jan 1846

A DREADFUL CASUALTY.  read more »

Sumneytown, PA Dynamite Explosion, Jan 1889

DYNAMITE EXPLOSION.

TWO YOUNG MEN BLOWN INTO PIECES TOO SMALL TO RECOGNIZE.  read more »

East Liberty, PA Horse Stable Accident, Mar 1835

SHOCKING.

Uniontown, Pa. March 25.  read more »

Osterburg, PA Two Automobile Accident, Aug 1928

SIX INJURED IN MOTOR ACCIDENT.

TWO AUTOMOBILES, BOTH OCCUPIED BY JOHNSTOWN PEOPLE, COME TO GRIEF NEAR OSTERBURG, BEDFORD COUNTY.  read more »

Mt. Gretna, PA Airliner Crashes, Mar 1929

PLANE, DISABLED IN FLIGHT, FALLS NEAR MT. GRETNA; 4 DEAD.

PILOT, AND 3 INVITED FRIENDS, ENROUTE FROM COLUMBUS, OHIO, TO NEW YORK CITY.

PLANE STRIKES TREE AND FALLS TO GROUND.  read more »

Harrisburg, PA Newspaper Plant Explosion, Mar 1846

TERRIBLE EXPLOSION AT HARRISBURG.  read more »

West Newton, PA Sawmill Boiler Explosion, Jan 1903

Explosion Killed Two, Injured Two  read more »

Morrisville, PA Delaware River Drowning, Sept 1932

Auto Racer Drowns in Delaware During Swim  read more »

Pittsburgh, PA Allegheny River Drowning Rescue, Jan 1903

PITTSBURG—From the icy waters of the Allegheny river Captain H. C. Price yesterday saved Bernard Althouse, a German.  read more »

Chester, PA Darby Creek Drowning Rescue, Jan 1903

CHESTER—While skating on Darby Creek, Agnes Preston, aged 14, broke through the ice and was going down for the third time when Michael Delaney, aged 15, leaped into the creek, and grasping the drown  read more »

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