Midlothian, VA Coal Pit Explosion, May 1876

Posted February 14th, 2009 by June

Explosion in a Coal Pit.

Eight Loves Lost.

New York, may 22.- A special from Richmond, Va., says that intelligence reached the city yesterday of a terrible explosion at the old Midlothian coal pit in Chesterfield county, resulting in the loss of eight lives and severe injury of two other persons, while a number of others were slightly injured. The men were working seven hundred feet below the surface when the explosion of foul air and gas occurred, being heard for miles. The manager and others descended the pit, and after search cape upon the bodies of JAS. CARROL, foreman; CHARLES HOLDER, JOHN MARSHAL, THOMAS GOLDEN, ROBERT HALL, JOSEPH HADLEY, colored; WM. MORRIS, colored, and PHILLIP ELLIOTT, colored, all dead, and a number of others were more or less injured. The mouth of the pit was crowded by the wives and relatives of the killed and injured, frantic with grief at their loss.

Critic-Record, Washington DC 22 May 1876

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