This eerie town sits above a coal mine fire that has been continuously burning for well over half a century and has been ...

March 25, 1975 Altoona purchased the two-story office building directly across the alley from City Hall to move the solicitor’s and planning offices into it. It was purchased from attorney Leo Mullen ...

Two people have been charged with burglary after a community member reported possible trespassing at the former Peabody Coal ...

The Wabash County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call of a 2008 white Chevrolet Tahoe parked inside the former Peabody Coal ...

6 and 8 coal mines in Monongah, West Virginia ... March 25, 1947 - 111 miners are killed in an explosion at the Centralia No. 5 mine in Centralia, Illinois. December 21, 1951 - An explosion at Orient ...

In the 1800s, miners in Centralia blasted tunnels underground to harvest the coal, but by the mid-1900s, many of the mines where abandoned. No one knows exactly how the Centralia fire started ...

In the 1800s, miners in Centralia blasted tunnels underground to harvest the coal, but by the mid-1900s, many of the mines wsere abandoned. No one knows exactly how the Centralia fire started ...