Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1901 — Lose Lives in Mine. [ARTICLE]

Lose Lives in Mine.

Eight men prominent in the business and political affairs of West Virginia are believed to have lost their lives in the Pocahontas mines. Experienced miners who went down to search for the missing men were driven back by black damp and hope for their recovery has practically been abandoned. The supposed victims are: Walter O’Malley, superintendent of the Pocahontas Collieries Company; William Priest, state mine inspector; A. S. Hurst, chief coal inspector for the Ca3tnor, Curran & Bullitt Company of Philadelphia; Robert St. Clair, chief coal inspector; Morris St. Clair, coal inspector; William Oldham, substitute coal inspector; Frazier G. Bell, mining engineer; Joseph Vardwell, manager of the Shamokin Coal and Coke Company of Maybury, W. Va.