Blasts that killed 26 men in a Kentucky coal mine still echo 50 years later

At 11:15 on the morning of March 9, 1976, Virgil Coots, a foreman at the Scotia coal mine in Letcher County, called to the ...

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Avoidable blasts that killed 26 men in a Kentucky coal mine still echo 50 years later

In March 1976, two explosions over two days rocked the Scotia coal mine in Eastern Kentucky, killing 26 men. Fifty years ...