 This event was the basis for the song "Crugybar o frynian caersalem" performed by the Wilkes-Barre Quartet in 1922, which commemorates the event, as the boys were "fresh off the boat" from the Salem's Hills area of Northeast Wales.Coal mining continued until The Great Depression hit this town hard, as primary sector of the economy products as lumber and coal were hardest hit.The population slowly dwindled as the coal mining came to a halt.