Hellraisers Journal: Newly Made Widows and Orphans Left to Mourn after Mine Disasters in Pennsylvania and Alabama

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

Hellraisers Journal – Friday April 14, 1911
Mine Disasters in Pennsylvania and Alabama Leave at Least 200 Dead

From The Pittsburg Press of April 9, 1911:

Ptt Prs MsHd Easter p1, Apr 9, 1911———-

Mine Ds, Throop PA 73 k Apr 7, Littleton AL 128 k Apr 8, Ptt Prs p1, Apr 9, 1911

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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 Pittsburg Press
(Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
-Apr 9, 1911
https://www.newspapers.com/image/142930332/

See also:

April 7, 1911
Throop, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania
Price-Pancoast Coal Company
Price-Pancoast Mine Fire
No. Killed – 73
https://usminedisasters.miningquiz.com/saxsewell/price-pancoast.htm

April 8, 1911
Littleton, Jefferson County, Alabama
Pratt Consolidated Coal Company
Banner Mine Explosion
No. Killed – 128
https://usminedisasters.miningquiz.com/saxsewell/banner_explosion.htm

Convict-Lease System
Mary Ellen Curtin, University of Essex
http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-1346

Tag: Convict Lease System
https://weneverforget.org/tag/convict-lease-system/

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Mannington Mine Disaster – Hazel Dickens