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Hellraisers Journal – Sunday April 14, 1912
Jed, West Virginia – Photographs at Scene of Mine Disaster
From The Coming Nation of April 13, 1912:
Day after day waiting for news from the entombed miners-Photo by A. P. Risser
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Carrying out one of the 85 victims of the explosion-Photo by Paul Thompson, N. Y.
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General 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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West Virginia Mine Disaster – Kathy Mattea
Lyrics by Jean Ritchie