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Mine explosion, 1981

AP PHOTO

AP Photo/Ed Reinke

Pallbearers carry the casket of Robert “Bobby” Sloan up a hill to his burial site as family and friends follow behind near Topmost, Ky., Dec. 11, 1981. Sloan was one of eight miners killed in an explosion at the Adkins Coal Co. No. 18 mine on Dec. 7.

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