In the Aermath of Tragedy: Herschel Wence and ˜e 1925 City ...
he City Mine, a bituminous coal mine in Sullivan County, Indiana, exploded on 20 February 1925. Of 122 men in the mine that day, 51 died in the accident, making it the most deadly mine accident in the history of the state of ˜e explosion in the City Mine was part of an epidemic of disasters that plagued the American coal mining industry in the ˚rst decades of the twentieth century ...