By Bonnie E. Stewart
Ninety-nine males entered the chilly, darkish tunnels of the Consolidation Coal Company’s No.9 Mine in Farmington, West Virginia, on November 20, 1968. Some have been fearful concerning the of the mine. It had an excessive amount of coal dirt, an excessive amount of methane gasoline. They knew that both you'll be able to reason an explosion. What they didn't comprehend used to be that somebody had deliberately disabled a security alarm on one of many mine’s air flow fanatics. That was once a demise sentence for many of the team. The fan failed that morning, however the alarm didn't sound. the shortcoming of clean air allowed methane gasoline to accumulate within the tunnels. a couple of moments sooner than 5:30 a.m., the No.9 blew up. Some males died the place they stood. Others lived yet suffocated within the poisonous fumes that stuffed the mine. merely 21 males escaped from the mountain.
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