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1940 Bartley, West Virginia mine explosion....
1940 Bartley, West Virginia mine explosion....
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January 11, 1940
CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, January 11, 1940
* Bartley, West Virginia coal mining disaster
* Pond Creek # 1 mine, Pocahontas Coal Corp.
* Early report as all 91 miners would be found dead
The front page has a great banner headline: "89 TRAPPED IN MINE; 2 KILLED" with subheads and small map. Nice for display. Always nice to have notable events in history reported in this World famous publication.
Complete with all 30 pages, this is the "rag edition" printed on very high quality newsprint meant for institutional holdings. In great condition as such, a few small binding holes at the blank spine.
wikipedia notes: Bartley was the site of one of the deadliest mine disasters in American history when the Pond Creek #1 mine, owned by the Pocahontas Coal Corporation, exploded on January 10, 1940 at 2:30 PM. 91 miners lost their lives that fateful day. The west side of the mine was not affected and 37 men escaped injury and another 10 men at the bottom of the shaft, used to drop the men into the mine, were also not affected. A rescue effort was mounted and seven hours after the first explosion, while men were working to save their fellow miners, a second explosion occurred thus sealing the fate and ending the rescue effort for the 91 lost men.
Category: The 20th Century
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