Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1901 — Nine Killed and Many Will Die. [ARTICLE]

Nine Killed and Many Will Die.

Nine men were killed and probably a score fatally injured by an explosion in the shaft of the George’s Creek Coal and Iron company at Farmington, W. Va. At least ten men are still in the mine, and as the shaft was still ablaze tonight it was impossible to make an effort to rescue them. It may be a day or two before the flames can be subdued. One dead body has been recovered, and fourteen miners have been taken out, a number of whom are not expected to live. Known to be dead: Carl Hunter, Daniel Alferie, Tony Romenic, I. H. Everson, Joseph Nichols, Manor Beatty, three Italians, names unknown.