(WBRE/WYOU) — Wednesday marked 66 years since the Knox Mine Disaster. On January 22, 1959, ice filled the Susquehanna River and broke the roof of the river slope mine at Port Griffith ...
On January 22, 1959, a disaster in a mine called Knox killed 12 people ... down the Pennsylvania Road to the day the Susquehanna River filled the mine. A funeral home now stands near the site ...