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Monongah Mines Explosion In Marion County December 6 1907
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Download or read book Monongah Mines Explosion in Marion County December 6, 1907 written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report of State of West Virginia hearings held at Clarksburg, WV, January 6, 1908. Monongah was the largest coal mine disaster in the United States with 362 miners dead.
Download or read book Monongah written by J. Davitt McAteer and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the Monongah, West Virginia mine disaster, the West Virginia University Press is honored to carry Davitt McAteer's definitive history of the worst industrial accident in U.S. history. Monongah documents the events that led to the explosion, which claimed hundreds of lives on the morning of December 6, 1907. Nearly thirty years of exhaustive research have led McAteer to the conclusion that close to 500 men and boys--many of them immigrants--lost their lives that day, leaving hundreds of women widowed and more than one thousand children orphaned. McAteer delves deeply into the personalities, economic forces, and social landscape of the mining communities of north central West Virginia at the beginning of the twentieth century. The tragedy at Monongah led to a greater awareness of industrial working conditions, and ultimately to the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969, which Davitt McAteer helped to enact.
Book Synopsis History of the Monongah Mines Relief Fund by : Monongah mines relief committee
Download or read book History of the Monongah Mines Relief Fund written by Monongah mines relief committee and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monongah written by Davitt McAteer and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the Monongah, West Virginia mine disaster, the West Virginia University Press is honored to carry Davitt McAteer's definitive history of the worst industrial accident in U.S. history. "Monongah" documents the events that led to the explosion, which claimed hundreds of lives on the morning of December 6, 1907. Nearly thirty years of exhaustive research have led McAteer to the conclusion that close to 500 men and boys--many of them immigrants--lost their lives that day, leaving hundreds of women widowed and more than one thousand children orphaned. McAteer delves deeply into the personalities, economic forces, and social landscape of the mining communities of north central West Virginia at the beginning of the twentieth century. The tragedy at Monongah led to a greater awareness of industrial working conditions, and ultimately to the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969, which Davitt McAteer helped to enact.
Book Synopsis The Explosion at Monongah Number Six and Monongah Number Eight Mines of the Fairmont Coal Company, December 6, 1907 by : Frank Hass
Download or read book The Explosion at Monongah Number Six and Monongah Number Eight Mines of the Fairmont Coal Company, December 6, 1907 written by Frank Hass and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Monongah Mining Disaster by : Jason Skog
Download or read book The Monongah Mining Disaster written by Jason Skog and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2008 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the tragedy of this famous West Virginia disaster.
Book Synopsis History of the Monongah Mines Relief Fund by : Monongah mines relief committee
Download or read book History of the Monongah Mines Relief Fund written by Monongah mines relief committee and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :West Virginia. Legislature. Joint Select Committee to Investigate the Cause of Mine Explosions Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :856 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (31 download)
Book Synopsis Report of Hearings ... Together with the Preliminary and Final Reports by : West Virginia. Legislature. Joint Select Committee to Investigate the Cause of Mine Explosions
Download or read book Report of Hearings ... Together with the Preliminary and Final Reports written by West Virginia. Legislature. Joint Select Committee to Investigate the Cause of Mine Explosions and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marion County written by Thomas J. Koon and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picturesque community in North Central West Virginia, Marion County is well-known for its winding waterways and rolling hills. Rapidly becoming a center for technological advancement, the county once depended on coal mining and oil drilling as its main industries. The near-depletion of these resources forced residents to seek new opportunities, and their tenacity and willingness to forge ahead have helped maintain a community of which they and their children can be proud. This volume of vintage photographs and informative text sends readers back in time to the community''s defining days, the era in which Boaz Fleming lived with a dream of creating a new county and the period when coal, oil, and gas brought people into the area with hopes of fortune in their hearts. As the home to the first Father''s Day celebration and three West Virginia governors, including '"the father of West Virginia'" Francis Pierpont, this community lies at the forefront of the Mountain State''s proud heritage. Long-time residents will no doubt recognize many of the street scenes and parades, while newcomers will delight in seeing their beloved community as it looked in days gone by.
Book Synopsis Monongah Coal Mine Disaster 1907-2007 by : Ron Rittenhouse
Download or read book Monongah Coal Mine Disaster 1907-2007 written by Ron Rittenhouse and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis West Virginia Off the Beaten Path®, 7th by : Su Clauson-Wicker
Download or read book West Virginia Off the Beaten Path®, 7th written by Su Clauson-Wicker and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-12-22 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: West Virginia Off the Beaten Path features the things travelers and locals want to see and experience––if only they knew about them. From the best in local dining to quirky cultural tidbits to hidden attractions, unique finds, and unusual locales.
Book Synopsis Message of Governor Dawson to the Legislature of 1908, Extra Session, January 28, 1908 by : West Virginia. Governor
Download or read book Message of Governor Dawson to the Legislature of 1908, Extra Session, January 28, 1908 written by West Virginia. Governor and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Coal-mining Safety in the Progressive Period by : William Graebner
Download or read book Coal-mining Safety in the Progressive Period written by William Graebner and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No. 9 written by Bonnie Elaine Stewart and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ninety-nine men entered the cold, dark tunnels of the Consolidation Coal Company's No.9 Mine in Farmington, West Virginia, on November 20, 1968. Some were worried about the condition of the mine. It had too much coal dust, too much methane gas. They knew that either one could cause an explosion. What they did not know was that someone had intentionally disabled a safety alarm on one of the mine's ventilation fans. That was a death sentence for most of the crew. The fan failed that morning, but the alarm did not sound. The lack of fresh air allowed methane gas to build up in the tunnels. A few moments before 5:30 a.m., the No.9 blew up. Some men died where they stood. Others lived but suffocated in the toxic fumes that filled the mine. Only 21 men escaped from the mountain. No.9: The 1968 Farmington Mine Disaster explains how such a thing could happen--how the coal company and federal and state officials failed to protect the 78 men who died in the mountain. Based on public records and interviews with those who worked in the mine, No.9 describes the conditions underground before and after the disaster and the legal struggles of the miners' widows to gain justice and transform coal mine safety legislation.
Book Synopsis The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales by : Ruth Ann Musick
Download or read book The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales written by Ruth Ann Musick and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-09-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " West Virginia boasts an unusually rich heritage of ghost tales. Originally West Virginians told these hundred stories not for idle amusement but to report supernatural experiences that defied ordinary human explanation. From jealous rivals and ghostly children to murdered kinsmen and omens of death, these tales reflect the inner lives—the hopes, beliefs, and fears—of a people. Like all folklore, these tales reveal much of the history of the region: its isolation and violence, the passions and bloodshed of the Civil War era, the hardships of miners and railroad laborers, and the lingering vitality of Old World traditions.
Book Synopsis Regulating Danger by : James Whiteside
Download or read book Regulating Danger written by James Whiteside and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1880s to the 1980s more than eight thousand workers died in the coal mines of the Rocky Mountain states. Sometimes they died by the dozens in fiery explosions, but more often they died alone, crushed by collapsing roofs or runaway mine cars. Many old-timers in coal-mining communities and even some historians haveøblamed the high fatality rate on ruthless coal barons exploiting miners in the single-minded pursuit of profit. The coal industry preferred to blame careless miners. James Whiteside looks beyond those charges in seeking to explain why the western coal mines were (and, to some degree, still are) dangerous and why territorial, state, and federal laws failed for so long to make them safer. Regulating Danger is the first extended study of the coal-mining industry in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, and Montana. It exceeds the scope of traditional labor history in focusing on working conditions and the problems of workers instead of unions and strikes. After examining the inherent physical dangers of the work, Whiteside shows how the interplay of economic, social, and technological forces created an envi-ronment of death in the western coal mines. He goes on to discuss evolving industrial and political attitudes toward issues of responsibility for mine safety and government regulation and the fundamental changes in the industry that brought about safer working conditions.
Book Synopsis History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania by : John Newton Boucher
Download or read book History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania written by John Newton Boucher and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
