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Eccles, WV (Raleigh County) - A Selected History Early 1900s Through Present Day - |
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April 28, 1914 Eccles #5 & #6 Mine Disaster Page 1 of 4 |
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Mine Disaster Postcard Photo #1
Photo submitted by Dennis Chadra - July 19, 2003
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Eccles No.'s 5 & 6 1914 Mine Disaster Postcard Photo #2
Photo submitted by Dennis Chadra - July 19, 2003
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Eccles Mine Disaster April 28, 1914 awaiting news.
Photo submitted by Adrian Bostic.2000
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Miner's Story #4 from Linda Pack
Subject: West Virginia Coal Mining Disasters http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvcoal/ecles.html
Eccles#5 =Shaft Mining.
It was said you couldn't tell the men from the mules so all was buried together. Some who wasn't right in the blast were burned so bad and suffered for weeks before death. Others were left with out hearing for the rest of their lives. Some were blinded from the heat. Some lost arms or legs.
My grandfather said the ones who died that day were the lucky ones. As a child I didn't understand why he would say that. But he had watched as some of his friends suffered and die a slow slow death...So names were added later..
My father Jack Bailey was looking for work in the late 40's.He said he was hired at Eccles#5.He showed up and he said he could hear the under ground blasting. He looked at the opening in the ground and knowing they would be asking him to stand on something like a table top and be lowered in the ground. He walked away.. the next day more men were killed.
Over 25 years later I took that ride 575 feet down to the bottom and then 4 miles on a man trip to the face. Linda Pack |
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Eccles Mine Disaster April 28, 1914 wives and children of victims. + Photo from a booklet on mine disasters from MSHA.
Photo reversal orientation corrected from information by Dave Keesee, Postmaster Eccles, WV Jul, 2001.
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Eccles #5.
Photo submitted by Adrian Bostic. 2000
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Dave Keesee, Postmaster in Eccles, WV 25836-9998
has a great collection of photos and newspaper
clippings of Eccles and the mine disasters on the Post Office Lobby
walls.
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Eccles #5 and #6 New River Colleries, Eccles, WV Postcard 1912.
Photo submitted by Dennis Chadra
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