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Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday November 17, 1909
Cherry, Illinois – Nurses Arrive from Chicago to Bring Comfort
From The Rock Island Argus of November 15, 1909:
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Thousands Come to Scene.
Thousands of people came to the mine this morning. Special trains bearing weeping relatives summoned by telegraph arrived at the station and heart-rending scenes were enacted as they met other relatives and were told the worst, which appears to be the only possible outcome of the disaster.
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Nurses Comfort Bereaved Ones.
A party of nurses from Chicago, who arrived last night, today were turned into comforters of the families probably bereft. Throughout the hamlet were scattered cottages in various stages of completion. It seems likely many cottages never will be finished…..
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SOURCE & IMAGES
Quote Mother Jones, Pray for dead, Ab Chp 6, 1925
https://www.iww.org/history/library/MotherJones/autobiography/6
The Rock Island Argus
(Rock Island, Illinois)
-Nov 15, 1909
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn92053934/1909-11-15/ed-1/seq-1/
See also:
Trapped
The Story of the Cherry Mine Disaster
-by Karen Tintori
Simon and Schuster, Feb 6, 2018
https://books.google.com/books?id=mDc9DwAAQBAJ
Oneness-Angiolina
The 1909 cherry Mine Disaster
by Dean and Lorena (Galletti) Cotton
Author House, Sep 24, 2004
https://books.google.com/books?id=Juv_WBMqTpQC
Fire Below!
The Cherry Mine Disaster
-by Glenn Bluemer
Grand Village Press, 2007
https://books.google.com/books?id=pCI8PQAACAAJ
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Dream Of A Miner’s Child – Johnson Mountain Boys