Hueytown Historical Society's

Historical Events

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Hueytown School Burns
(Hueytown Elementary burns down in 1949)

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National Weather Service Alabama Tornado Database

 

The following are links regarding
the April 8, 1998 F3-F5 tornado
(from Oak Grove through Rock Creek through south of Sylvan Springs to Edgewater)

 

The April 8, 1998 F5 Tornado by Mick Lindley

Photos on Tornado Project by Jo Ann Carter


Article on BhamWiki Website


Oak Grove Memorial Park
(located on the site of the original Oak Grove Elementary and High School
which was heavily damaged by the April 8, 1998 tornado)

 

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Mine Diasters
(newspaper articles coming soon)

 

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

Feb 21, 1905

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

Feb 22, 1905

Names of forty-eight dead taken from the mines

Feb 22, 1905

Ninety bodies taken out of Virginia Mines;

Water Now Threatens to Retard Rescue Work

Feb 23, 1905

Undertakers are shipping bodies

Feb 23, 1905

The Relief Fund Growing Rapidly

Feb 23, 1905

The Funerals at Pratt City

Feb 23, 1905

The List of Recovered Bodies Now Numbers One Hundred

Feb 24, 1905

Dec 16, 1907               Yolande Mine                          57 dead

Feb 2, 1909                 Short Creek Mine                     18 dead

Sixteen Reported Dead in Short Creek Mine

Feb 2, 1909

Seventeen Killed in Short Creek Explosion

Feb 3, 1909

Apr 20, 1910               Mulga Mine                             39 dead

Forty-Three Dead; not a man is left to tell awful story

Apr 21, 1910

Mulga Mine the best in the entire world

Apr 21, 1910

The U. S. Relief Corps being rushed to Mulga

Apr 21, 1910

Hero of the tragedy brother of a victim

Apr 21, 1910

Generous Public Quick to aid mine sufferers

Apr 21, 1910

Ministers to Organize Mulga Relief Association

Apr 22, 1910

Bodies that have been taken from Mulga mine

Apr 22, 1910

Oct 5, 1914                  Mulga Mine                             17 dead

 

December 1921         Docena Mine

Blast at Docena takes toll of year in mines

Dec 31, 1921

Blast at Docena brings mine toll of year up to 75

Jan 1, 1922

Nov 22, 1922              Dolomite Mine No. 3

20 white miners among dead; more than 60 injured

Nov 23, 1922

Work of removing bodies from mine ends at daybreak

Nov 23, 1922

Victim, writing for News, says he tried to end life

Nov 23, 1922

Bessemer turned into morgue, all embalmers busy

Nov 23, 1922

List of Fatalities in Mine Disaster

Nov 23, 1922

Mine Disasters in Alabama Since 1905 and Results

Nov 23, 1922

Works without mask for hours / falls unconscious mumbling for teammates to save others

Nov 23, 1922

60 saved after hope had fled

Nov 23, 1922

T.C.I. rescuers do heroic work

Nov 23, 1922

Sufferers to get insurance at once

Nov 23, 1922

Blast comes as miners try for Big Coal Record

Nov 23, 1922

Another body is found in recess of mine workings

Nov 24, 1922

Blast victims have no need for attorneys

Nov 24, 1922

Bessemer mourns for miners killed in Dolomite blast

Nov 24, 1922

Relatives storm funeral parlors

Nov 24, 1922

Burials are Held for nearly all of Dolomite Victims

Nov 26, 1922

 

Jan. 10, 1923               Dolomite No. 1

Oct 16, 1937                Mulga Mine

May 11, 1943              Praco Mine

Jul 30, 1948                 Edgewater

 

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