Credit: Photo courtesy of Anna Toth, Bobtown, Pa. and The Daily Courier, Connellsville, PA
On December 17, 1907, an explosion at the Darr Mine near Fayette City, PA, killed 239 men and boys, many of them immigrants from Hungary. The Darr explosion remains the deadliest mine disaster in Pennsylvania history. The recovered bodies were placed in a temporary morgue set up in a large tent, near the Darr Mine entry at Van Meter. Here, the bodies of the miners killed, their clothes piled on the caskets, lay side by side waiting to be identified.
