A short historical account and background of the often violent conflict between workers and employers in West ... mines in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, compiled by the West Virginia State ...

Hyre Stalnaker was working in the carpenter shop at the coal mines of Monongah, West Virginia, when the explosion ... through the opening decade of this century, coal accounted for more than ...

Fed up with the deadly work and poor wages and living conditions, thousands of coal miners ... conflicts in the mining industry in the early 20th century, known as the West Virginia Mine Wars ...

More than a century ... this West Virginia hillside has erased any trace of the graveyard known locally as Little Egypt, the resting place for dozens of coal miners who died in a 1912 mine explosion.

Coal supplies in West Virginia have tightened as mining companies are increasingly ... A coal production powerhouse throughout much of the 20th century, West Virginia still burned coal for about ...

West Virginia’s ... Over its quarter-century life, the main mine at the Twilight complex about an hour south of Charleston produced more than 60 million tons of coal to provide electricity ...

More than a century of overgrowth on this West Virginia hillside has erased any trace of the burial ground known locally as Little Egypt, the resting place for dozens of coal mine workers who died ...