DARR

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Olive Branch Baptist Cemetery

282-284 Highway 981
Rostraver Pennsylvania 15012
United States
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DARR

Died: 19 December 1907
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DARR MINE DISASTER - ON DEC. 19, 1907, AN EXPLOSION KILLED 239 MEN AND BOYS, MANY HUNGARIAN IMMIGRANTS, IN DARR COAL MINE NEAR VAN METER. SOME WERE FROM THE CLOSED NAOMI MINE, NEAR FAYETTE CITY, WHICH EXPLODED ON DEC. 1, KILLING 34. OVER 3000 MINERS DIED IN DEC. 1907, THE WORST MONTH IN U.S. COAL MINING HISTORY. IN OLIVE BRANCH CEMETERY. 71 DARR MINERS, 49 UNKNOWN ARE BURIED IN A COMMON GRAVE.

TO THE MEMORY OF THE MARTYRS THE DARR MINE DISASTER DEC. 19, 1907.

ERECTED BY THE HUNGARIAN-AMERICAN FEDERATION 1909

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BillionGraves.com record for DARR (19 December 1907), BillionGraves Record Olive Branch Baptist Cemetery, Rostraver, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States, North America