Remembering the Benwood Mine Disaster 100 years ago

Latest News April 27, 2024

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the Benwood Mine Disaster. It was shortly after 7 a.m. on Monday, April 28, 1924, when an explosion and fire tore through the Wheeling Steel Corp. mine in the northern panhandle community just south of Wheeling. Over 100 men had gone in the mine just a ...

Farmington No. 9 service set today: 78 miners died in the 1968 disaster

Community November 20, 2022

The desk clerk at the motel in Fairmont had to look twice. “Huh?” he wondered. “What the heck was that?” The paperclips and pens collected in that old coffee mug of his actually vibrated. As he remembered, it was a slight, whispered whump — if, say, he had let his open palm ...