The Mud Run Train Wreck: A Disaster in the Irish-American Community

by Mary Lydon Simonsen

On October 10, 1888, the worst train disaster in the history of Pennsylvania took place at the Mud Run station in Carbon County. The victims were excursionists, the vast number of whom were Irish or Irish-Americans, who had traveled from Scranton to Hazleton to celebrate the birth of Father Mathew Theobold, the Irish Apostle of Temperance, with a parade and picnic arranged by the Total Catholic Abstinence Union.In anticipation of moving as many as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692348085
• ISBN13: 9780692348086
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Quail Creek Publishing, LLC
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"