Avondale
Twin Shaft
Baltimore Tunnel
Knox
Coal Terms
100

Where was the Avondale mine located?

Where is Plymouth?

100

Where was the Twin Shaft disaster?

Where is Near Pittston, PA?

100

What home improvement store is located where the Baltimore Tunnel was?

What is the Home Depot?

100

Where was the Knox Mine?

Where is Port Griffith, near Pittston?

100

What does a coal breaker do?

What is break coal?

200

What was the likely cause of the Avondale accident?

What is a fire?

200

What term do we use to describe mine timbers that are creaking or making noises?

What is pressing or squeezing?

200

What happened at Baltimore Tunnel?

What is an explosion?

200

What happened at the Knox Mine?

What is the river broke through and flooded it?

200

What was the job of a nipper?

What is to open and close the doors?

300

What two ethnic groups didn't get a long at Avondale?

Who are the Irish and Welsh?

300

What happened at Twin Shaft?

What is a cave-in?

300

What material was set on fire to cause the explosion?

What is Black powder?

300

What did they do to try to plug the hole?

What is dump train cars, coal cars, hay, and anything else they could find in it?

300

What was a spragger?

Who is the person who stops the cars?
400

Why couldn't they rescue the men at Avondale sooner?

What is because there was one way in and one way out?

400

What is the term we use to describe taking coal from walls in areas you already mined?

What is robbing the pillars?

400

How about it?

I know, right?

400

Who was Joseph Stella?

Who is the man who led one group to safety?

400

How many mules did a mule driver have to drive to earn "a man's wage?"

What is six?

500

What type of gases could have killed men in the mine's?

What is black damp, white damp, or methane?

500

How many people died at Twin Shaft?

What is 58?

500

How many people died at Baltimore Tunnel?

What is 92?

500

Who climbed the air shaft to alert people up top where the trapped miners were?

Who was Amadio Pancotti?

500

What two animals make a mule?

What is a donkey and a horse?

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