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...over who was responsible for the disaster. Slag dams -or gob piles, as they are often called in the region-are an ugly but common sight in West Virginia. Like the one at Buffalo Creek, which was owned by the Buffalo Mining Co., a subsidiary of the Manhattan-based Pittston Co., they are built up from the residue that results from washing coal. The slime and silt settle, and the water that backs up behind the slag heap is often used again for washing the coal. Such dams in West Virginia have breached before. After the flood, the U.S. Geological...
...press conference, Governor Moore denied any knowledge of the Geological Survey's warning. A high official of the Pittston Co. was quoted by the Charleston Gazette as fatuously blaming the disaster on "an act of God." The flood, of course, was rather the result of poor engineering and poor judgment. Intensive state and federal investigations are now under way to determine its immediate cause...
...they are a commercialized version of the old fraternity files of crib sheets on courses, compiled by students who attended class regularly and took notes for their less conscientious brethren. Probably the most successful of the pony stables in attracting academic talent is Educational Research Associates Inc.,* a West Pittston, Pa., firm headed by former High School Teacher Paul Stark. He argues that students do need up-to-date, soundly based guides because "many teachers have not introduced a new thought in their courses from the time they received tenure...
...third the cost of all freight-car movements on eastern railroads. The eastern carriers only a month ago passed on their savings by cutting coal freight rates by a third, enabling coal companies to reduce delivery prices by 15%. In the first month after the railroads reduced their rates, Pittston Coal, the nation's third largest producer, picked up new orders for 2,000,000 tons...
Heaviest single toll was in Pittston, Pa., where the ice-clogged Susquehanna River tore away a railroad bed, gnawed a soft. hole into the weakened river bank, finally ate through a ceiling of the Pennsylvania Coal Co.'s big River Slope Mine. Without warning, 45 anthracite miners were washed waist-high by tomb-cold rising water. While emergency crews dumped telephone poles, bales of hay and even empty railroad gondola cars into the hole to block the water, 33 miners threaded through abandoned tunnels and shafts to safety. The other twelve were presumed drowned...