Hellraisers Journal: From the Spokane Industrial Worker: 14,000 Coal Miners Slaughtered During Past Ten Years

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

Hellraisers Journal – Monday December 5, 1910
14,0000 Coal Miners Slaughter During Past Ten Years

From the Spokane Industrial Worker of December 1, 1910:

DRWG re Mine Disasters, Murderer Coal Op, IW p1, Dec 1, 1910

Statistics show that 14,000 coal miners miners have been slaughtered in the mines in the last 10 years. At the rate coal miners have been murdered in the last two months in the United States, the death rate will increase by leaps and bounds…..

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Hellraisers Journal: Explosion at CF&I’s Primero Mine Kills 79 Miners in Colorado; Company Continues to Withhold News

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Mother Jones Quote, Life Cheaper Than Props, Trinidad CO, Sept 16, 1913, Hse Com p2630
Mother Quotes CF&I Mine Manager
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Hellraisers Journal – Saturday February 5, 1910
Trinidad, Colorado – Primero Mine Disaster Leaves 300-400 Children Fatherless

From The Fort Collins Express of February 3, 1910:

Primero MnDs, HdLn 79 Dead Explosion, Fort Collins Exp p1, Feb 3, 1910—–

THE REPORT OF THE EXPLOSION REACHED HERE AT SIX O’CLOCK TONIGHT BY A MESSENGER AND TELEPHONE THE WIRES WERE PURPOSELY CUT OR WERE BROKEN BY SOME UNKNOWN CAUSE BETWEEN HERE AND THE SCENE OF THE DISASTER, FOR JUST AFTER THE EXPLOSION THE WIRES PUT OUT OF COMMISSION AND ONLY MEAGER NEWS HAS BEEN RECEIVED FROM THE MINE.

At 11:30 tonight a messenger reported from a point about half way between here and Primero that fifteen bodies bad been recovered and that 135 more were in the mine with no hope of being rescued alive.

The cause of the explosion is unknown. A rescue party that left this city is expected back about 2 o’clock in the morning with complete reports of the disaster.

The criticism being directed against the company owning the mine is very severe as there is an apparent attempt to prevent the details from being made public. A large number of men who worked in the mine live in Trinidad, going back and forth on miners’ trains each morning and evening. Great excitement prevails in this city among the wives and children of the entombed men.

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