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I can understand never going back.

posted by Kabu on December 15, 2018 at 1:42 PM | link to this | reply

I don't blame him , I should not think there was much compensation if a miner was injured or was driven crazy by the stress and confinement.

posted by C_C_T on December 15, 2018 at 9:24 AM | link to this | reply

He lasted longer than I would have down there. I probably would have been begging to come up to fresh air as soon as I was underground.

posted by FormerStudentIntern on December 15, 2018 at 5:46 AM | link to this | reply

I don't blame him!

posted by Corbin_Dallas on December 15, 2018 at 4:00 AM | link to this | reply

Re: RPresta

My Uncle Jim was killed in the mine a few years later leaving a widow and three little children.  He fell down a mineshaft and broke his neck.  And my grandfather died of black lung in 1944.

posted by TAPS. on December 14, 2018 at 10:21 PM | link to this | reply

TAPS

A wise decision. Probably saved his life; explosions, Black Lung, cave-ins...

posted by Sea_Gypsy on December 14, 2018 at 8:57 PM | link to this | reply

Re: That would have been my exact reaction to being in a coal mine.

Yes!  They really celebrate weddings.

posted by TAPS. on December 14, 2018 at 1:32 PM | link to this | reply

That would have been my exact reaction to being in a coal mine.

I'm amazed anyone could do it. A lot of people in this area came from Bohemia, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic - Poles, too. Wonderful people. They really know how to throw a wedding celebration.

posted by Pat_B on December 14, 2018 at 1:21 PM | link to this | reply