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Hellraisers Journal – Saturday November 25, 1922
Dolomite, Alabama – Death Toll from Mine Explosion Reaches 84
From the Birmingham Age-Herald of November 24, 1922:
Tag: Alabama Mine Disasters
Hellraisers Journal: Disastrous Dust Explosion at Alabama’s Dolomite Mine Claims the Lives of Many Coal Miners
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Hellraisers Journal – Friday November 24, 1922
Dolomite, Alabama – Mine Blast Claims Lives of at Least 70 Coal Miners
From the Birmingham Age-Herald of November 23, 1922:
Hellraisers Journal: “Heartrending Scenes At Mouth of Palos Shaft” -Two Families Lose Four Loved Ones in Great Explosion
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Hellraisers Journal – Friday May 13, 1910
Palos, Alabama – Heartrending Scenes after Mine Explodes in Fire
From The Birmingham News of May 6, 1910:
From The Birmingham News of May 7, 1910:
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Special to The Birmingham News.
PALOS, Ala., May 7.-Two families suffered hard in the explosion, the Penningtons and the Etansburys [Stansbury]. J. S. Pennington and three of his sons, Cliff, aged 24; Albert, 16, and Clarence, 15, were in the mines at the time of the explosion, while four Stanbury brothers were also among those who gave up their lives, Earl, Robert, C. H. and Fred.
[Said James Stansbury, the father:]
It is pretty hard to lose four fine sons in the mines, but I guess I will have to bear the awful burden. In a twinkling of an eye, four fine fellows are called to the beyond,
and the old man walked away, his heart sobbing and his eyes filled with tears.
For two days now the wife of J. S. Pennington and her eight children, some of them her step-children, have been sitting around near the improvised morgue near the trestle to the mines. She has been moaning off and on,
Mr. Pennington was a good man. He was a kind husband and a good father And the boys who met the same fate were all good boys. My grief is something terrible. We had such a fine family and the Penningtons have always been respected around here.
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