HISTORY OF THE COLLIERY: The “bucket of blood.” The coal breaker at the Harry E. Colliery in Swoyersville had an ominous nickname, the “bucket of blood.” “It had a reputation for killing ...

The material was generated from the Harry E. Coal Breaker, which ceased operations in the 1970s and was dismantled in 1995.

Long gone are other Wyoming Valley coal breakers: the Harry E. (in Swoyersville), the Truesdale (in the Hanover section of Nanticoke) and the Sullivan Trail (West Pittston). Each constituted a ...

MAHANOY CITY — When coal was king, its castle was the breaker — an imposing fortress that crushed, washed and sized billions of tons of Pennsylvania anthracite for use in factories ...