The Eccles Mine Disaster
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In 1914 a series of massive explosions occurred in the Eccles Mine No. 5 near Eccles, West Virginia in Raleigh County, West Virginia, leaving over 180 men and boys dead, including an insurance salesman who had the bad luck of making a call on the miners that day.
Today we tell the story of West Virginia's second-worst mine disaster.
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