Word: consolement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been two years since the disaster at Consol No. 9 trapped 78 men in a trembling, burning tomb beneath Marion County, W. Va. Consol No. 9 was one of the worst tragedies in the history of an industry that has seen tens of thousands of tragedies, and for the families the end of it has not yet been reached. TIME Correspondent Arthur White visited the small communities near Farmington. where the wives, children and parents of Consol No. 9's victims -222 dependents in all-search to honor the dead. His report...
...timbered, rolling hills of Marion County have seen death, and the markers dot the landscape. Here 361 perished at Monongah in 1907. There is Mount Calvary Cemetery where hundreds of them were buried in mass graves. In Farmington, there is a monument to 16 men killed in Consol No. 9 in 1954. Up the street races a boy whose father died in those same shafts two years ago. Out at the entrance to the Llewellyn Portal-the center of the explosions and fires on Nov. 20. 1968-a wooden frame holds a dozen bouquets put there on the second anniversary...
...strike with fear each day they enter the mines will be forever shaken. "Mine folklore says they must be got out. To go down every day, the miner must know that if anything goes wrong, there will be unrelenting effort to get him out. If they give up in Consol No. 9, even though they're dead, miners will remember and fear it may happen to the living one day. A miner has his legends...