mine disaster Archives - The Dominion Post https://www.dominionpost.com/tag/mine-disaster/ Morgantown Area News Thu, 25 Apr 2024 21:56:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 https://www.dominionpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-81287318_3042289439136500_6974497821747576832_n-32x32.png mine disaster Archives - The Dominion Post https://www.dominionpost.com/tag/mine-disaster/ 32 32 Remembering the Benwood Mine Disaster 100 years ago https://www.dominionpost.com/2024/04/27/remembering-the-benwood-mine-disaster-100-years-ago/ Sun, 28 Apr 2024 03:01:00 +0000 https://www.dominionpost.com/?p=334567 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 […]

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]]> Farmington No. 9 service set today: 78 miners died in the 1968 disaster https://www.dominionpost.com/2022/11/20/farmington-no-9-service-set-today-78-miners-died-in-the-1968-disaster/ Sun, 20 Nov 2022 06:11:00 +0000 https://www.dominionpost.com/?p=251103 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 […]

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