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Speak your piece: Scotia then and now

EDITOR’S NOTE: Fifty years ago today, an explosion at the Scotia coal mine in Letcher County, Kentucky, killed 15 miners. Two ...
The 1976 Scotia disasters in Letcher County transformed U.S. mine rules. Fifty years later, the rescuers were honored.
(WYMT) - The second of two explosions rocked the Scotia mine in Letcher County 50 years ago. 26 men were killed: 15 by the first explosion on March 9 and 11 died after the second.