Some Vintage Photos, Part 2/2

Rescue workers pull a miner worker from the Orient No. 2 coal mine in West Frankfort, Ill., December 22, 1951, following an underground methane explosion. The state legislature passed the Illinois Mining Act of 1953, mandating better ventilation in underground mines and better testing for methane, which investigators said was the cause of the blast. Fifty years later, Dayton McReaken, a coal miner remembers when 119 workers died in the explosion. (Photo by AP Photo)
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