Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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It has 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 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...
There is a tradition in mining communities as old as grief, but layered over with the special stresses of men who go into mines: the dead must have a decent burial; the bodies must be recovered. Since the 1968 disaster, only five of the bodies have been brought out of...
Mrs. Elizabeth Skarzinski is familiar with tragedy. Her grandfather was killed in the worst disaster in U.S. mining history, the blast at Monongah that killed 361. She signed the agreement, but still hopes for the recovery of her husband's body: "I just bought two plots at Mount Calvary...
There are other widows who have bought cemetery plots, who want their husbands' bodies recovered, but, faced with no foreseeable resolution of their fealty to the dead, still signed the agreement. What will happen is as uncertain as the slow, dangerous job of digging into the pits where the...