The Massacre at LattimerThe Massacre at Lattimer
On September 10, 1897, more than a dozen coal miners, mainly eastern European immigrants, were shot and killed by police while on strike at the Lattimer mine in Hazelton, Pennsylvania.
Category: The Coalfields
April 5, 2010 – Upper Big Branch Mine ExplosionApril 5, 2010 – Upper Big Branch Mine Explosion
On this day in 2010 Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch Mine in Montcoal, West Virginia, suffered a coal dust explosion, killing 29 out of the 31 miners working at the
McClureMcClure
Today we tell the story of the explosion at the McClure Number 1 Mine in Dickenson County, Virginia, in 1983, resulting in several fatalities including the first fatality of a
A School Shooting In GrundyA School Shooting In Grundy
In the winter of 2002 tragedy struck the coal town of Grundy, Virginia, when a Nigerian student at the Appalachian School of Law there opened fire on faculty and students