Miner Recollections

Detailed Accounts of Mine Tragedies

The Valley Where Coal Was King Miners’ Hospital A Coal Miner’s Prayer Memorial Statue Preserving Our Heritage Those Who Died Four Brothers Keiling Michael & Frankland Miller Shertzer Walker Francis Wilhelm Hott & Armstrong Fairgrieve Hausrath Mills Yates Hughes & Clark Kenny Sampson Leptic Family Bush, Cavanaugh & Scally Beeman, Sexton & Douglas George Fair Keller & Berry Beemans John Canning Boyd Peter McGuire Warnick & Green Jenkins, Whiteman & Thomas Bowen Layman Loar Brunotte, Hamilton, Condry, Kight & Smith Unique Coal Fields — John Welsh Clupp Family John Benson Ruffo Family Dailey Murder of Douglas Love Loar, Smith & Dodds Gracie Evans Family Joseph Henry Wolford John Keirs, Jr. Dickel & Hosken Leake Mungo Walker John Shell, Jr. Michaels & Hockenberry Andrew Walker & Frank Strother Alonzo Howsare Maryland First Aid Alfred Metz Pietro Bommicino David Peebles James & William Starkey Children of The Dark Greenhorn — Preston Lonaconing’s Men of Steele Duffy Family Russell Youst Eli Thomas Mears Joseph Timmons Harry Graney Armold & Riggleman John P. “Stumper” Race Mooney & Eisentrout Child Labor Tools and Bravery William Gillespie O’Brien Family Urban Shea Francis Meyers Flower Children Margaret Blubaugh Martin Thomas O’Rourke Three Thomas Families Shimer and Clark Wm Patrick Murphy Henry Stafford Two Generations of Clarks The Trezise Father and Son Two Sloans John Edward Cosgrove Thomas Jefferson Green John Thomas Miller Albert Kirk Palmer Schuylers Alexander Smith Somerville Charles Meshack Preston Rubbing Elbows Heroes By the Dozen Murphy and Tippen The Dillon Family Holiday Celebrations Skidmore Saga John Melvin & John Callery The Old Astor Mine — Flanigan and Conlon John Brown, Robert Brown & John Sultzer Joseph Henry Adomnick William Langley John Henry Lapp August F.T. Schell Robert Sturtz John Thomas Ayers David Telford Hugh Muir Albert Harris & John Malooly Horace Resley Hamilton Richard & Noah Hendley Horse Soldier John Morgan Paul McNerney William Powell Frank Lotz Two James Ritchies James Thornton Crowe Pertinent Advice 1893 Weir Cavey Carter & Porter Grove St. Andrews Clarence Layman A Cowboy Comes to Eckhart Orble Shaw Machin-Snyder Moses Duckworth John Brehany Bowery Furnace Mine Bowery Furnace Mine No. 2 James Russell Browning Henry “Harry” Devlin Jessie Franklin Crable