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Recalling the Knox Mine Disaster with Mike Stevens | Back Down The Pennsylvania Road

The waters of the Susquehanna River poured into the coal mines in Luzerne County 65 years ago.

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LUZERNE COUNTY, Pa. — Monday marks the 65th anniversary of the Knox Mine disaster. The Susquehanna River flooded the mines, bringing an end to most coal mining in the Wyoming Valley.

Mike Stevens remembers in this trip Back Down The Pennsylvania Road to 1989.

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