Talk:Monongah Mining disaster
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This passage is confusing: "In all, the lives of 362 boys and men were lost in the underground explosion, leaving 250 widows and over 1000 children without support. In October 1964 Reverend Everett Francis Briggs stated that a fairer estimate of the victims of the Monongah Disaster would be upward of 500. The victims were actually 956.." If 362 lives were lost, where do these 956 victims come from? 68.183.65.148 01:40, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
The following was found to be incorrect:
"and has been described as "the worst mining disaster in American History", however, it is not since there have been multiple other mine disasters with higher death tolls.[citation needed]".
I wondered what worse accident there had been, so I started looking. On the "Mining accident" page I found a claim that Monongah was the deadliest, and found a reference.[1] This reference states no higher death tolls and to me it is more reliable than the uncited claim that this accident was not the deadliest, so I have removed this claim. Andreas Willow 08:05, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
