Pray for the dead
And fight like hell for the living.
-Mother Jones
Hellraisers Journal, Thursday December 12, 1907
Monongah, West Virginia – Grim Work Continues in Driving Rain
From The Pittsburgh Press of December 10, 1907:
Women at Mouth of the Monongah Mine
Rescuers Worn Out
More Bodies Recovered
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SOURCE & IMAGES
The Pittsburgh Press
(Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
-Dec 10, 1907
https://www.newspapers.com/image/142132645/
See also:
Tag: Monongah Mine Disaster of 1907
https://weneverforget.org/tag/monongah-mine-disaster-of-1907/
USMRA: Monongah 1907
http://usminedisasters.miningquiz.com/saxsewell/monongah.htm
WE NEVER FORGET
Rescuer Deaths
John Narey died in the mine rescue effort during the mine disaster at Monongah Mine, West Virginia Dec. 6, 1907 (from an article in the Latrobe Bulletin, Latrobe, PA, Dec. 18, 1907). In all, three men are said to have lost their lives in the rescue work at Monongah, apparently overcome with smoke or poisonous gases lingering in the mines because they had no proper equipment for entering exploding mines, or proper equipment to revive rescuers or miners who had succumbed to their smoke and poisonous gases.
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Blantyre Mining Disaster Songs – Alex Hodgson & David Francey
Blantyre Mine Disasters of Blantyre Scotland
1877-207 dead, 1878-6 dead, 1879-28 dead
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blantyre_mining_disaster