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Nine Trapped Miners Rescued After Quecreek Flood
In Somerset Pennsylvania a mine collapse trapped nine workers for days as surface residents including miners farmers and truckers aided in the rescue effort. A 30 inch drill eventually reached the men and they were brought to the surface alive.
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Somerset
Bill Arnold
Dennis Hall
Quecreek
Arnold
Ins Farm
Hall
Pennsylvania
Scott Roberts
Clyde Knapp
Christ Casebeer Lutheran Church
Mime
Mark Papernack
Thomas Foy 51
West Virginia
Foy
Blaine Mayhugh
Anthony Gibbons
Mark Schweiker
Harrisburg
Sipesville
Mayhugh
Randy Fogle
Larry Neff
Schweiker
Paul Hall
John Unger
Gibbons
Fay
Fogle
Lori Arnold