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Sigmund

from Shawnee, Ohio by Brian Harnetty

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Sigmund Kozma was the last living survivor of the Millfield Mine disaster of 1930, where 82 miners died. His story is both a lament of the past, and a cautionary tale for today.

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Sigmund: It’s just the enormity of the thing. After we got outside, and realized how bad it was. And, uh, how many friends –– almost every man in there was of course a friend of mine. There were a few that I was more aquatinted with than others but –– some of those people that I grew up with and I went to school and played with and worked with and everything and it was just, it was just hard to realize that they were gone.

Immediately after the explosion, it was chaos, as you can imagine, because––so many of the families had lost a member of the family in the explosion. And of course you know how even when one person dies the rest of the neighbors and the friends and relatives and all those are all––they, they try to support them the best way they can. But when there’s so many, so much of it, so many of it, you can imagine what a chaotic time that was in that town, in that camp. It was just a terrible... It was so huge, so much...death and so huge that it was um, everybody was numb for weeks.

But, of course, eventually –– mining towns being what they are, and how they’re situated and everything and as far as work and living is concerned –– things get back to normal. The mines opened up again and they start working. And eventually, gradually, why, people begin to live normal lives. Miner’s lives, coal miner’s lives.

And, uh, I don’t know, you, you, kind of get a, a, kind of numbness or something. It’s not that you get insensitive, but, you’d just don’t... It’s just hard to realize that everywhere you look –– you look around through the camp –– and almost every house was touched by death.

And, uh, it’s just like I say, you get kinda numb to the fact that there were so many dead people in one place like that, and that it happened that suddenly. That was the thing that bothered me more than anything. It was hard to realize that, that could occur like that, young as I was.

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from Shawnee, Ohio, released April 26, 2019

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Brian Harnetty Columbus, Ohio

Interdisciplinary artist using sound and listening to foster social change. Recordings on Winesap, Karl, Dust-to-Digital, Atavistic, and Scioto Records.

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