What young boy does not fantasize about adventure . Especially with his buddies
Well 3 young boys almost lost their lives in early 60s when they entered an abandoned Coal Mine in the South Hills of Pittsburgh to explore it and got lost.
On July 12 ,1963 Bobby Abbot, Billy Burke and Dan Okain
Where able to get into a partial opening of the sealed and abandnoned Pittsburgh Terminal 2# mine Castle Shannon Pa. near the Linden grove
They soon became lost as their flashlights started gong out.no one knew they had gone in and where reported missing by ther parents .
A large search party was getting ready to start scouring the woods when a Trolly Operator reported seeing the 3 boys going near the old shaft
On July 13th The US Bureau of Mines sent in a rescue team who equipped with maos and all neeeded safety equiptment went looking for the boys.
But came out empty handed .
Convinced the boys had wiggled their way in then went in one more time and found them in the dark and together , freezing starving and confused .
They where quickly removed and sent to hospital to be checked over and the mine was permanently sealed. The boys luckily unharmed . The bureau of mines then went on a mission to close off as many abandoned mine entrances as they could find in area .
But open mine shafts can still be found.
The DER just this year was notified of open shafts in the deep woods around Apollo which they are now sealing .
There are even You Tube channels devoted to exploring these old coal mines still open and people regularly put their lives at risk because of deadly Black damp and other gasses and risk of a collapse.
Despite all the warnings they still go in and explore .
Its just a matter of time till there is going to be a death or multiple deaths because of this exploring activity.
