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Miners carry stretchers with the victims of the mine accident at Pursglove.

637. Explosion in Pursglove, W. Va. that Killed 20 Miners.

638. New River Company Employees who helped at the Benwood Mine Disaster.

Miners carry the body of a miner killed in a gas explosion at Exeter, Pennsylvania through a crowd of miners and onlookers.

639. Body of One of 9 Miners Killed in a Coal Gas Explosion in Exeter, Pa.

Men dig out a pony trapped in a mine shaft.

640. Rescuing a Mine Pony in Monongalia County

641. Crowd Awaits News After a Mine Disaster in Barrackville, W. Va.

Body of miner killed in an explosion lying next to train track.

642. Victim of a Mine Explosion

Westover and Granville Volunteer Fire Departments respond to a fire at the Humphrey No. 7 Tipple in Granville, W. Va.

643. Humphrey No. 7 Coal Tipple Fire in Granville, W. Va.

644. Destruction after an Explosion at a Thomas, W. Va. Mine

People being buried in an Italian and Polish cemetery after the Monongah Mine Explosion.

645. Italian and Polish Cemetery at Monongah, W. Va.

View of the cemetery after the Monongah Mine explosion.

646. Preparing the Cemetery after the Monongah Explosion

Shows the scene about the mouth of No. 8 Monongah Mine, Marion County, W. Va., where the fan house and other buildings were completely demolished by the force of the explosion and where Engineer Byce was killed. The photograph was taken just as bodies of the victims were being brought out of the mine.

647. Monongah Mine Disaster

People standing on hill overlooking what used to be the fan and fan house at Mine No. 8.

648. Wreck of Fan and Fan House at Monongah Mine No. 8