Download or read book Trapped Under Coal Valley written by Terry Brazier and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a cold February morning in 1908, the ground under Coal Valley, Illinois, trembled as an earthquake opened the earth, collapsed mining tunnels, and created chasms and fissures as deep as five hundred feet below the rolling hills. It would forever be known as Coal Valleys great cave-in. Thirteen men lay trapped for three months as tensions rose among the townspeople, rescuers, and families of the trapped miners. One rescue attempt after another failed due to aftershocks, weather, and just plain bad luck. The dangers were great below ground, but the twisted minds of some of the towns inhabitants made the danger even greater at the surface. A story of adventure, suspense, greed, romance, fantasy, and redemption that will leave the reader wondering who or what was actually trapped under Coal Valley. Was it just the miners, the apparitions that they faced, or was it the underground dwellers whose intelligence was advancing at such a rapid pace that they were preparing for their place in the sun?
Download or read book Coal River written by Ellen Marie Wiseman and published by Kensington Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes an excerpt from The orphan collector.
Download or read book Mining Disasters of the Wyoming Valley written by Bryan Glahn and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten-year-old Willie Hatton was excited to visit his father at the Avondale Mine on the morning of September 6, 1869. Sadly, Willie would die in his father’s arms that day, and so would 108 other miners, all victims of a horrific fire that tore through the shaft, trapping the men and boys and blocking the only exit. The communities of the Wyoming Valley know firsthand the human cost of the anthracite industry. From a cave-in at Twin Shaft to an explosion at the Baltimore Tunnel to the Susquehanna River crashing through the roof at Knox, thousands of miners left for work in the morning never to return. Sadly, few of the tragedies could be called accidents. Profits took precedence over safety, leaving workers to pay the price for negligence, corruption, and greed.
Download or read book Coal River written by Michael Shnayerson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-01-08 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Americas most dramatic environmental battles is unfolding in the coal mines of southern West Virginia. Shnayerson gives readers a novelistic and compelling portrait of the people who have risked their reputations and livelihoods in the fight against King Coal.
Download or read book The Coal River Valley in the Civil War written by Michael B Graham and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-17 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “compelling” account of the little-known bloody skirmishes that took place in this picturesque part of West Virginia (Civil War Monitor). The three rivers that make up the Coal River Valley—Big, Little and Coal—were named by explorer John Peter Salling (or Salley) for the coal deposits found along their banks. More than one hundred years later, the picturesque valley that would separate from Virginia a short time later was witness to a multitude of bloody skirmishes between Confederate and Union forces in the Civil War. Often-overlooked battles at Boone Court House, Coal River, Pond Fork, and Kanawha Gap introduced the beginning of “total war” tactics years before General Sherman used them in his March to the Sea. Join historian Michael Graham as he expertly details the compelling human drama of the bitterly contested Coal River Valley region during the War Between the States. Includes illustrations
Download or read book Trapped in a Coal Mine and Other Stories written by Ruth Johnson Jay and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bold Pursuit written by Terry Brazier and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pandemic rages on Earth. Violence runs rampant in the streets. The U.S. and its adversaries struggle to control the mysterious virus robbing its victims of their memories. The Center for Disease Control and the Environmental Protection Agency represented by the brother and sister team of Nick and Ann Barbeck race to find a cure. Their search takes them on a 4,200-mile journey aboard the EPA’s research vessel, the Bold, as they strive to reach the Center for Disease Control and Prevention located in Seattle. There, they hope to experiment with the gene technology CRISPR. Enemies, both foreign and domestic, attempt to thwart their efforts at every turn. The world’s largest research computer, Stampede2, located at the University of Texas, aids them in their quest for a cure utilizing artificial intelligence. Just when success appears imminent, enemies commandeer the Bold taking the crew and scientists prisoner. Stampede2 predicts World War III. Can the DNA of one of the researchers save humanity? Bold Pursuit, an action packed adventure filled with suspense, reaffirms one’s faith in humanity. Heroes can be found irrespective of territorial boundaries and true love found in the most unlikely places.
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Download or read book Trapped in the Old Mine written by Alvena Seckar and published by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy is lured by a dog's discovery of an abandoned mine shaft, despite having heard warnings from his coal mining family and their way of life.
Download or read book Coal River written by Ellen Marie Wiseman and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eye-opening novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Orphan Collector delivers “a spot-on portrayal of a dark time in American history” (Historical Novel Society, Editor’s Choice). Ellen Marie Wiseman draws readers into the Pennsylvania mining operations of the early 20th century—where children had no choice but to work in deadly conditions . . . or face starvation. As a child, Emma Malloy left isolated Coal River, Pennsylvania, vowing never to return. Now, orphaned and penniless at nineteen, she accepts a train ticket from her aunt and uncle and travels back to the rough-hewn community. Treated like a servant by her relatives, Emma works for free in the company store. There, miners and their impoverished families must pay inflated prices for food, clothing, and tools, while those who owe money are turned away to starve. Most heartrending of all are the breaker boys Emma sees around the village—young children who toil all day sorting coal amid treacherous machinery. Their soot-stained faces remind Emma of the little brother she lost long ago, and she begins leaving stolen food on families’ doorsteps, and marking the miners’ bills as paid. Though Emma’s actions draw ire from the mine owner and police captain, they lead to an alliance with a charismatic miner who offers to help her expose the truth. And as the lines blur between what is legal and what is just, Emma must risk everything to follow her conscience. “Wiseman offers heartbreaking and historically accurate depictions of the dangerous mines, the hopeless workers, and their improbable fight for justice.” —Publishers Weekly
Download or read book Trapped by Coal written by Constance Horne and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depicts life in the early 1900's in a coal mining town in British Columbia.
Download or read book Prize essays and Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland written by Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unsaturated Soils Research Applications written by Nasser Khalili and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 1850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unsaturated Soils: Research and Applications contains 247 papers presented at 6th International Conference on Unsaturated Soils (UNSAT2014, Sydney, Australia, 2-4 July 2014). The two volumes provide an overview of recent experimental and theoretical advances in a wide variety of topics related to unsaturated soil mechanics: - Unsaturated Soil Behavior - Experimentation - Modelling - Case Histories - Geotechnical Engineering Problems - Multidisciplinary and New Areas Unsaturated Soils: Research and Applications presents a wealth of information, and is of interest to researchers and practising engineers in soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering. These proceedings are dedicated to Professor Geoffrey E. Blight (1934-2013), who passed in November 2013.
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Download or read book Annual Report of the State Bureau of Labor Statistics Concerning Coal in Illinois written by Illinois. Department of Mines and Minerals and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
