Centralians have long believed the government's demolition of their beloved town in the 1980s was part of a plot to swipe the mineral rights to anthracite coal worth hundreds of millions of dollars - and not, as state and federal officials said, the solution to an out-of-control underground mine fire that menaced the town with toxic gases.
Now, in a last-ditch effort to save their homes from the wrecking ball, the few holdouts who remain in the borough are taking their claims of a conspiracy to court.
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associated press Steam seeps through the ground Jan. 13 in Centralia. The steam is caused by a fire that started in 1962 at the town dump and ignited an exposed coal vein.
Now, in a last-ditch effort to save their homes from the wrecking ball, the few holdouts who remain in the borough are taking their claims of a conspiracy to court.
http://republicanherald.com/news/centralia-claims-massive-fraud-1.667993
associated press Steam seeps through the ground Jan. 13 in Centralia. The steam is caused by a fire that started in 1962 at the town dump and ignited an exposed coal vein.
