Feb 1905
Virginia Mine
112 dead
Over Hundred Lives Probably Lost
Little or No Hope Held Out for Entombed Men but the
rescue work goes on day and night
1) Five Blackened corpses taken out up to 2 o’clock
p.m. today
2) Official List of entombed men; one hundred and
seven in all
3) Force of the explosion was something fearful
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Feb 21, 1905
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Underground Death Chamber at Virginia City has
given up eight-one blackened bodies
1) Work of rescuing bodies goes forward under great
difficulties
2) Horror and havoc wrought by the explosion beyond
description
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Feb 22, 1905
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Names of forty-eight dead taken from the mines
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Feb 22, 1905
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Ninety bodies taken out of Virginia Mines;
Water Now Threatens to Retard Rescue Work
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Feb 23, 1905
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Undertakers are shipping bodies
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Feb 23, 1905
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The Relief Fund Growing Rapidly
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Feb 23, 1905
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The Funerals at Pratt City
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Feb 23, 1905
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The List of Recovered Bodies Now Numbers One
Hundred
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Feb 24, 1905
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Dec 16, 1907
Yolande Mine
57 dead
Feb 2, 1909
Short Creek Mine
18 dead
Sixteen Reported Dead in Short Creek Mine
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Feb 2, 1909
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Seventeen Killed in Short Creek Explosion
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Feb 3, 1909
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Apr 20, 1910
Mulga Mine
39 dead
Forty-Three Dead; not a man is left to tell awful
story
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Apr 21, 1910
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Mulga Mine the best in the entire world
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Apr 21, 1910
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The U. S. Relief Corps being rushed to Mulga
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Apr 21, 1910
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Hero of the tragedy brother of a victim
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Apr 21, 1910
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Generous Public Quick to aid mine sufferers
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Apr 21, 1910
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Ministers to Organize Mulga Relief Association
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Apr 22, 1910
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Bodies that have been taken from Mulga mine
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Apr 22, 1910
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Oct 5, 1914
Mulga Mine
17 dead
December 1921
Docena Mine
Blast at Docena takes toll of year in mines
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Dec 31, 1921
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Blast at Docena brings mine toll of year up to 75
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Jan 1, 1922
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Nov 22, 1922
Dolomite Mine No. 3
20 white miners among dead; more than 60 injured
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Nov 23, 1922
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Work of removing bodies from mine ends at daybreak
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Nov 23, 1922
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Victim, writing for News, says he tried to end life
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Nov 23, 1922
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Bessemer turned into morgue, all embalmers busy
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Nov 23, 1922
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List of Fatalities in Mine Disaster
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Nov 23, 1922
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Mine Disasters in Alabama Since 1905 and Results
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Nov 23, 1922
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Works without mask for hours / falls unconscious
mumbling for teammates to save others
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Nov 23, 1922
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60 saved after hope had fled
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Nov 23, 1922
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T.C.I. rescuers do heroic work
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Nov 23, 1922
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Sufferers to get insurance at once
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Nov 23, 1922
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Blast comes as miners try for Big Coal Record
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Nov 23, 1922
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Another body is found in recess of mine workings
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Nov 24, 1922
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Blast victims have no need for attorneys
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Nov 24, 1922
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Bessemer mourns for miners killed in Dolomite blast
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Nov 24, 1922
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Relatives storm funeral parlors
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Nov 24, 1922
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Burials are Held for nearly all of Dolomite Victims
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Nov 26, 1922
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Jan. 10, 1923
Dolomite No. 1
Oct 16, 1937
Mulga Mine
May 11, 1943
Praco Mine
Jul 30, 1948
Edgewater
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