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 ...

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 ...

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