Hellraisers Journal: Mine Explosion at Eccles, West Virginia, Claims Many Lives; All Hope Lost for 177 Missing Miners

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Quote Mother Jones, Pray for dead, ed, Ab Chp 6, 1925—————

Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday April 29, 1914
Eccles, West Virginia – Mine Explosion Claims Many Lives; All Hope Lost for Missing

From The Wheeling Intelligencer of April 29, 1914:

Eccles Mine Disaster, Wlg Int p1, Apr 29, 1914

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SOURCES & IMAGES

Quote Mother Jones, Pray for dead, ed, Ab Chp 6, 1925
https://www.iww.org/history/library/MotherJones/autobiography/6

The Wheeling Intelligencer
(Wheeling, West Virginia)
-Apr 29, 1914
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86092536/1914-04-29/ed-1/seq-1/
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86092536/1914-04-29/ed-1/seq-8/

See also:

April 30, 1914, Wheeling Majority
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86092530/1914-04-30/ed-1/seq-1/
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86092530/1914-04-30/ed-1/seq-8/

Eccles Mine Disaster, Wlg Maj p1, Apr 30, 1914

New River Collieries Company
Eccles Nos. 5 and 6 Mine Explosions
Eccles, Raleigh County, West Virginia
April 28, 1914
No. Killed – 183
https://usminedisasters.miningquiz.com/saxsewell/eccles.htm

West Virginia Mine Disasters by Fatalities
https://usminedisasters.miningquiz.com/Mine_Disasters/search_all_state_high.asp?ACC_STATE_NAME=West%20Virginia

U. S. Coal Mine Disasters by Fatalities
https://usminedisasters.miningquiz.com/Mine_Disasters/search_all_industry_hilo.asp?INDUSTRY=COAL

Tag: Coal Mine Disasters
https://weneverforget.org/tag/coal-mine-disasters/

West Virginia Mine Disasters by Fatalities
https://usminedisasters.miningquiz.com/Mine_Disasters/search_all_state_high.asp?ACC_STATE_NAME=West%20Virginia

U. S. Coal Mine Disasters by Fatalities
https://usminedisasters.miningquiz.com/Mine_Disasters/search_all_industry_hilo.asp?INDUSTRY=COAL

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West Virginia Mine Disaster – Jean Ritchie