The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia ...

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 ...

The deadliest mining disaster in the state occurred on Dec. 6, 1907 when 361 miners were killed in an ... part of the main entry to the mine. All 119 men in the mine were killed in the explosion. The ...

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 ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court has thrown out a lawsuit filed by the families of 78 men who were killed in a 1968 mine explosion in West Virginia. The ruling Wednesday by the 4th U ...