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...lights blinked out in the Centralia Coal Company's Mine No. 5, near Centralia, Ill. Wiry, redheaded Earl Wilkinson had just coasted his squat, electric locomotive out of a tunnel, banged to a stop in a low cavern near the mine's elevator shaft. He stiffened, listened intently. He heard no sound. But a wind came out of the subterranean darkness and enveloped him in clouds of coal dust and coppery-smelling smoke. "God," he said aloud, "it's a bad windy* or an explosion...
Faint Sound. In all, 111 men had died. It was the worst mine disaster in the U.S. since 195 miners died in an explosion at Mather, Pa. in 1928. To miners and many a plain citizen it seemed like a senseless tragedy. Mine inspectors had been denouncing Centralia's No. 5 for years-one recent report had listed many dangerous violations of safety codes, but little had ever been done to correct them...
...week's end the force of the Centralia blast had disturbed both state and national politics. Critics of Illinois' Republican Governor Dwight Green tried to bring him to task for the fact that No. 5 had been allowed to run. In Washington, John L. Lewis seized thunderously on the fact that the Government was still, technically, the operator of mines. He cried that his enemy, Secretary of the Interior J. A. ("Cap") Krug, was a murderer, and called 400,000 U.S. soft-coal miners out for a week's "memorial" holiday...
...Guard Gene Vance had been a lieutenant in the ETO; Forward Ken Menke had been an artilleryman. The four were almost as spry as ever, and had to be, with the likes of Substitute Dwight Eddleman around (he scored a breathtaking 969 points as a senior at Centralia, Ill. High...
Preference. In Centralia, Ill., Jack and Mary Ann Sligar advertised in the Sentinel: "Wanted immediately-unfurnished apartment or house: man, wife, and daughter, 8, and dog. Will dispose of dog, but prefer to keep child...