“… the attention of the Commission was called to a few houses in which miners or mine workers dwelt which were not fit to be called habitations of men…” Report of the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission, 1903 |
“Coal was king, and all the people in the coal region were his worshippers.” History of Schuylkill County, 1881 |
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Ratio of coal produced per one life lost... 1 : 123,984 Tons Reports of the Inspectors Of Mines, 1877 |
Statistics of Coal, R.C. Taylor |
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