@paindustrialhistory: A granite memorial in Mather, near Waynesburg, holds the names of 195 coal miners. The Mather Mine in Greene County, Pennsylvania exploded at 4:07 PM on May 19, 1928, during shift change. Gas and coal dust tore through the northwest workings, and of 209 men in that section only 14 escaped. Pickands Mather and Company had built Mather as a company town in 1917. Four Bootz brothers had started work that same week. The Bureau of Mines said a battery locomotive that was not approved for gassy mines set off the gas. Afterward families of the dead were forced out of company houses to make room for new miners. If your family worked at Mather, did your grandfather make that shift or miss it? Follow for more from Pennsylvania coal country. #pennsylvania #hiddenhistory #pahistory #matherpa #coalmining

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