Hoisting one sign was Allen Cox, 29, his square face smeared with black coal dust. He had just left the third shift at the Cabin Creek mine. He once worked at a Massey mine with several of the ...

In August 1921, some 10,000 West Virginia coal miners picked up their Winchesters ... who’d killed workers at the Paint Creek and Cabin Creek mines, “there is going to be one hell of a lot ...

The tradition of coal mining is crucial to the economy and people of Appalachia, but hundreds of miles of mining land have shut down over the years. That’s why one project is giving a former Mingo ...

In the Mine Wars that erupted in southern West Virginia over the ... supporters and organizers. A Cabin Creek riflewoman on Guard before her tent. Credit: Coal Age Magazine Women in the early ...

Officials from the West Virginia ... coal mine electrician, died of injuries from an apparent electrical shock, according to a news report from www.weirtondailytimes. The accident occurred at 12:18 ...

The longtime leader of the United Mine Workers of America, Cecil Roberts, is retiring. Roberts, a West Virginia native ... a ...

Their faces covered in black soot, three adults safely rescued after several days in an abandoned West Virginia ... inside Elk Run Coal’s Rock House Powellton mine near Clear Creek “was ...

CLEAR CREEK, West Virginia (AP) — Workers are removing water and pumping fresh air into a nonoperational coal mine in West Virginia as they search for three people stuck inside. The state Office ...

CLEAR CREEK, W.Va. (AP) — Their faces covered in black soot, three adults safely rescued after several days in an abandoned West Virginia coal mine were mobbed by loved ones in a teary reunion ...