Father's Day 2025 falls on June 15. The day appreciates fathers and father figures. Its origin traces back to early 20th-century USA. Sonora Smart Dodd championed it to honor her father. It ...

The public work relief program would run from 1933 to 1942 and provide employment for unemployed and unmarried men ... explosion in a coal mine near Montcoal, in West Virginia's Raleigh County ...

BEAVER, W.Va. (AP) — In the biggest settlement ever reached in a U.S. mining disaster, the new owners of the West Virginia coal mine where 29 men were killed in ...

Another 239 men would be killed in 12 coal mining disasters in West Virginia before ... after the Monongah Mine disaster in 1907 where 361 miners died and the Eccles Explosion in 1913 that killed ...

December 6, 1907 – Worst coal mine disaster in US history: 362 miners are killed in an explosion at ... in Tallmansville, West Virginia, trapping 13 miners. 12 of the men had died from carbon ...

Rescue morphed into recovery, and when all the bodies that could be found were counted, 361 ... of the Mine No. 8 at Monongah, West Virginia (top); the aftermath of the explosion that killed ...

That same week, a miner was killed while working in a mine ... West Virginia coal mines — and he spoke of the derelict burial ground called Little Egypt. "We forgot about them," he said of the ...

Ed Evans, Democratic West Virginia delegate and retired public school teacher, sits beside a sunken grave in the unmarked cemetery where more than 80 coal miners killed in the 1912 Jed Coal and ...

More than a century of overgrowth on this West Virginia ... Co. mine. The underground explosion was set off when a miner’s open-flame lamp ignited methane gas. Many of the miners killed were ...

Another miner’s open-flame light ignited the gas, setting off a violent explosion killing all 174 men in No. 5 ... This explosion remains West Virginia’s second-worst mine disaster.