The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #9680   Message #64025
Posted By: Lonesome EJ
18-Mar-99 - 12:51 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Railroading over the Great Divide?
Subject: RE: Railroading Over The Great Divide
Kat..you said your Grandparents settled in the Newcastle to Carbondale area. Does that mean they were coal-mining folk? Are you familiar with the Newcastle Mining Disaster? Makes me wonder if there were any songs that came out of that. If my memory serves, 20 or more people from Newcastle were killed when a coal dust explosion hit the mines. Mainly Cornish immigrants, I think. Happened around the 1890's.