Rescuers Find Bodies of Two West Virginia Missing Miners
The search for the two West Virginia Missing Miners came to a sad conclusion today. Rescuers today found the bodies of two coal miners who disappeared after a conveyor belt caught fire deep inside the West Virginia Aracoma coal mine.
We have found the two miners we were looking for,” said Doug Conaway, director of the state Office of Miners’ Health Training and Safety. “Unfortunately we don’t have a positive outcome.”
The miners became separated Thursday evening as their 12-member crew tried to escape a conveyor belt fire at Aracoma Coal’s Alma No. 1 mine in Melville, about 60 miles southwest of Charleston. The rest of the crew and nine other miners working in a different section of the mine escaped unharmed.
The victims were identified as Don I. Bragg, 33, and Ellery Hatfield, 47. Both were fathers with more than a decade of mining experience and had worked in the Alma mine for five years.
(AP via Yahoo)
Rescue Team Searches for Two W.Va. Miners
MELVILLE, W.Va. - Five rescue teams were deep inside a coal mine Friday searching for two miners who never made it out after a conveyor belt caught fire. Nineteen others had reached the surface safely and waited with relatives of the missing in a scene all to familiar to West Virginia.
The fire started Thursday evening inside the Alma No. 1 Mine operated by Massey Energy subsidiary Aracoma Coal, about 60 miles southwest of Charleston, officials said.
(AP via Yahoo)
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This is so Sad , My heart and prayers go out to all the families
Please mine owners put gps on your workers
Comment by Sue | January 21, 2006