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Cherry Mine Disaster: 1909 Tragedy Unveiled by John Red is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The Cherry Mine Disaster of 1909 killed 259 men in Illinois. George Rice, the head of the federal rescue team, later provided private accounts that were more candid than his public statements at the time. His contemporaneous accounts and a later private letter to another author suggested the events were even worse than portrayed. However, as a federal mine safety expert, Rice felt obliged to temper his public statements to avoid offending mine operators or state regulators, since the federal government had
- Author
- John Red
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- EN