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Hellraisers Journal – Thursday December 4, 1902
Montgomery, West Virginia – Mother Jones Saved from Hotel Fire
From The Richmond Dispatch (Virginia) of December 3, 1902:
TO BURN “MOTHER” JONES.
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This Seemed the Object of Incendiaries
at Montgomery, W. Va.
PARKERSBURG, VA., December 3.-(Special.)—”Mother” Jones, the friend of the miners, narrowly escaped with her life from a burning hotel at Montgomery, early this morning.
Mrs. A. R. Wagoner, the wife of the proprietor of the Montgomery Hotel, was aroused from her slumbers and gave the alarm. The room occupied by “Mother” Jones was full of smoke when she wakened, and in a short time she would have been suffocated.
The fire was of incendiary origin, starting in a room that had not been occupied for three days. The hotel has been on fire three times within the past few weeks, and it is supposed that it was because “Mother” Jones was stopping there.
John C. Todd, one of the guests, had a hip fractured by jumping from the third story window. All the guests lost most of their valuables and clothing.
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[Photograph and emphasis added.]
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SOURCES
Quote Mother Jones Mine Supe Bulldog of Capitalism
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/isr/v02n08-feb-1902-ISR-gog-Princ.pdf
The Richmond Dispatch
(Richmond, Virginia)
-December 3, 1902
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85038614/1902-12-03/ed-1/seq-7/
IMAGE
Mother Jones , Phl Inq p24, June 22, 1902
https://www.newspapers.com/image/168338244/
See also:
Tag: West Virginia Coalfield Strike of 1902-1903
https://weneverforget.org/tag/west-virginia-coalfield-strike-of-1902-1903/
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