EPISODE 686 LIVINGSTON WERNECKE’S REPORT ON THE TREADWELL MINE DISASTER, APRIL 22, 1917

NOTE: Sitting in Mitch Lynas’s dental chair while he excavated and filled four teeth was nor he most
pleasant experience in my life.  Thankfully I was able to escape.  Livingston Wernecke’s description 
of that last cage being lifted out of the Treadwell Mine in 1917 is riveting.  I was with Livingston
on that final day in my mind while Dr. Lynas did a different kind of excavating an backfilling.


episode 685    LIVINGSTON WERNECKE’S REPORT ON THE TREADWELL MINE DISASTER, APRIL 22, 1917

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