Virginia, AL Mine Explosion, Feb 1905 - Mine Disaster
Posted August 4th, 2008 by Stu Beitler
Alabama mine disaster.
Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 21. --- By an explosion in the Virginia mine, about eighteen miles southwest of Birmingham, at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, between 110 and 135 union miners are entombed, and it is believed the entire number suffered an awful death.
Scores of vigorous rescuers are at work digging into the mine to relieve their friends and comrades in the mine.
The explosion is believed to have been caused by an accumulation of dust, although the mine has heretofore been noted for being entirely free from dust. It is also believed that as the entire quota has probably been killed, the details of the cause of the disaster will never be known.
Summit County Journal Colorado 1905-02-25
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