Hellraisers Journal: MONONGAH: Rescuers Worn Out; Women & Children Wait in Silent Grief in Driving Rain

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Pray for the dead
And fight like hell for the living.
-Mother Jones

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Hellraisers Journal, Thursday December 12, 1907
Monongah, West Virginia – Grim Work Continues in Driving Rain

From The Pittsburgh Press of December 10, 1907:

Women at Mouth of the Monongah Mine

Monongah MnDs, Women at Mouth of Mine, Ptt Prs, Dec 10, 1907

Rescuers Worn Out

Monongah MnDs, Rescuers Worn Out, Ptt Prs, Dec 10, 1907

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Hellraisers Journal: Rescue at Monongah Mine Disaster Hampered by Another Fire; Agonizing Scenes of Grief as Hope Fades

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How can God forgive you, you do know what you’ve done.
You’ve killed my husband, now you want my son.
-Hazel Dickens

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Hellraisers Journal, Monday December 9, 1917
Monongah, West Virginia – Agonizing Scenes of Grief and Despair

From The Pittsburgh Press of December 7, 1907:

Monongah Mine Disaster, Ptt Prs, Dec 7, 1907

James Cain, an inspector, was overcome while working in the mine this afternoon and is in a precarious condition.

Many women are rallying to aid in giving temporary relief wherever possible. Across the street from the mine quarters have been arranged where the distracted widows of the dead miners are cared for…..

AGONIZING SCENES.

With the early dawn of day and rising of the sun, the beautiful little mining village of Monongah was found to be one of sorrow and despair. Throughout the night widows and orphans hovered close together at the mine entrance, despite the coldness of the night, hoping against hope that their loved ones would still be found alive who were entombed.

The concussion was felt all over the country, houses were wrecked, windows broken and many persons near the mines knocked down and injured.

Thousands of people have assembled at the mine entrances.

The scenes about the mine openings throughout the night were agonizing in the extreme. The anguish of wives and mothers who wrung their hands and cried hysterically out of their solicitude for bread winners who were locked up in their underground sepulchre, were painful in the extreme. Women fainted. Strong men gave way. Little children, only faintly realizing what happened, cried pitifully, not for absent fathers and brothers, but because of the distress round about them and their intuitive knowledge that it was an occasion that called for tears…

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