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Remembering the Exeter mine disaster 111 years later

WEST PITTSTON -- Contemporary news accounts called it a “a fearful mine calamity.” One hundred eleven years later, two local men want to make sure it’s remembered. “The Avondale disaster in 1869 killed 110 and was the worst. ...

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