Talk:Avondale Mine disaster

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on April 19, 2010.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that after the Avondale Mine Disaster, legislation was passed by the Pennsylvania General Assembly that made Pennsylvania the first U.S. state to have laws regarding mine safety?

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References[edit]

Here is a list of books which seem to talk about the Avondale Disaster, but are not currently cited in the article. The majority are available, at least in part, on Google Books so there's no need to have a actual copy.

Death in the Mines: Disasters and Rescues in the Anthracite Coal Fields of Pennsylvania (J. Stuart Richards)
The great international disaster book (James Cornell)
Pennsylvania: a history of the Commonwealth (Randall M. Miller, William Pencak)
Welsh Americans: a history of assimilation in the coalfields (Ronald L. Lewis)
American Disasters: 201 Calamities That Shook the Nation (Ballard C. Campbell)
The history of legislation for the protection of coal miners in Pennsylvania (Alexander Trachtenberg)
An account of the unparalleled disaster at the Avondale colliery, Luzerne County, Pa., September 6th, 1869: By which one hundred and ten lives were lost (H. W. Chase)
Tragedy at Avondale: The Causes, Consequences, and Legacy of the Pennsylvania Anthracite Industry's Most Deadly Mining Disaster, September 6, 1869
Coalcracker culture: work and values in Pennsylvania anthracite, 1835-1935 (Harold W. Aurand)
The Breaker Whistle Blows: Mining Disasters and Labor Leaders in the Anthracite Region (Ellis W Roberts)

In addition, a link:

http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/avondale-mine-disaster-claimed-110-lives-1.231649

If anyone knows of more, feel free to add them. —ems 2 4 21:17, 19 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

John Powell link broken[edit]

The link I made to the article about his dead body has been removed for some unknown reason. As I am not experienced on wikipedia I will not dishonour your judgement about this link being removed but it is a bit annoying as this is fact. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JohnSmith678 (talk • contribs) 12:04, 1 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It was removed for being unsourced and self-contradictory.

You linked to Bob Joe, an article you recently created about an "unknown dead body" which was "discovered over a week after the disaster had occurred" (i.e., on or after September 13). When the Bob Joe article was WP:PRODded on the grounds that it was unsourced and contradicted this article (which says that the "last body" recovered was John Powell, recovered on September 9), you edited the Bob Joe article to say that Bob Joe was John Powell.

It makes no sense to describe John Powell as a victim whose identity was unknown, and who was also called Bob Joe, and who was discovered on two different dates. Do you have a source for any of this? --McGeddon (talk) 12:11, 1 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]