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The Eccles Mine Explosion
The 1914 West Virginia Disaster That Killed 183 Men in the Dark
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At 2:10 on an April afternoon in 1914, the mountain above Eccles, West Virginia, shuddered. Deep inside the Eccles No. 5 mine, flame was already racing through the dark, fed by gas and coal dust. Within minutes, 183 men were dead or dying. Families ran toward the portal, where smoke rose from the hillside and no one yet knew who would walk out.
Follow the Raleigh County coalfield from the rise of a railroad boomtown to the silence of a temporary morgue. Meet immigrant, Black, and local miners paid in company scrip, and the rescuers who strapped on breathing apparatus and went down into poisoned air. Discover how a mine called safe became the second-worst disaster in West Virginia history, and why so many saw it coming.
Drawing on official investigations, inquest testimony, and period newspapers, this is a scrupulously accurate, character-driven account of profit, hazard, and the price of cheap power in the Progressive Era. Eccles was supposed to change everything. Read it, and decide for yourself what changed, and what did not.
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