Last Man Out

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Last Man Out is written by Melissa Fay Greene and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0756784018 (ISBN 10) and 9780756784010 (ISBN 13).

The deepest coal mine in N. Amer. was notoriously unpredictable. In Oct. 1958, it bumpedÓ -- its rock floors heaving up & smashing into rock ceilings. A few miners staggered out, most of the 174 on the shift did not. 19 men were trapped, plunged into darkness, hunger & thirst. Above ground, journalists & families stood in despairing vigil, as rescuers brought out scores of the dead. Then, rescuers stumbled across a broken pipe leading to a cave containing survivors, then a second group was discovered. A media circus followed. Publicity, politics, & segregation sorted the men differently than they had ordered themselves. Green uses long-lost stories & interviews with survivors to reconstruct the drama of their struggle to stay alive. Photos.