Charles Madigan held a virtual meeting with attendees where he discussed his book "Mine,” which is inspired by the Sonman Mine Disaster of 1940 in Portage. The mine disaster claimed the lives of ...

On the list of “Major Coal Mine Fires and Explosions in Pennsylvania,” Sonman sits right between June 7, 1938, the explosion at Butler Slope in Pittston that killed 10 men and June 30, 1941 ...

July 15, 1940 Sonman, Portage, Cambria County. An explosion killed 63 miners. ... Earlier in February 1964, three people were killed as the result of a gas explosion at a nearby independent mine.

Charles Madigan held a virtual meeting with attendees where he discussed his book "Mine,” which is inspired by the Sonman Mine Disaster of 1940 in Portage.