On January 8, 1943, a fire in the Pursglove No. 15 coal mine on Scott's Run, Monongalia County, killed 13. Six months earlier, an explosion at the No. 2 mine, pictured above, killed twenty miners.
Learn more:
"Casualties on the Homefront: Scotts Run Mining Disasters
During World War II"
Progress Report of the Mine Fire, Pursglove No. 15 Mine,
January 8, 1943
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