Hellraisers Journal: Photographs at Scene of Jed, West Virginia, Mine Disaster; Women and Children Waiting, Day after Day

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Quote Mother Jones WV Miners Conditions, ISR p179 , Sept 1901—————

Hellraisers Journal – Sunday April 14, 1912
Jed, West Virginia – Photographs at Scene of Mine Disaster

From The Coming Nation of April 13, 1912:

Jed WV Mine Disaster, Women and Children Waiting, Cmg Ntn p2, Apr 13, 1912Day after day waiting for news from the entombed miners-Photo by A. P. Risser

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Jed WV Mine Disaster, Carrying Out the Dead, Cmg Ntn p2, Apr 13, 1912Carrying out one of the 85 victims of the explosion-Photo by Paul Thompson, N. Y.

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Jed WV Mine Disaster, View of Town, Cmg Ntn p2, Apr 13, 1912General view of the town of Jed, W. Va. Scene of the Disaster-Paul Thompson, N. Y.

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SOURCES & IMAGES

Quote Mother Jones WV Miners Conditions, ISR p179 , Sept 1901
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/isr/v02n03-sep-1901-ISR-gog-Princ.pdf

The Coming Nation
(Girard, Kansas)
-Apr 13, 1912
https://www.newspapers.com/image/488967259/

See also:

Hellraisers Journal: Eighty-Three Coal Miners Entombed
after Early-Morning Explosion at Jed Mine in West Virginia

March 26, 1912
Jed Coal and Coke Company
Jed Mine Explosion
Jed, McDowell County, West Virginia
No. Killed – 81
https://usminedisasters.miningquiz.com/saxsewell/jed.htm

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