From: Anniston Star
Alabama
October 16, 1937
Mulga, Ala., Oct. 16 (UP) -- Thirty-three bodies have been located in the Woodward Iron Company's coal mine which was partly wrecked by an underground explosion early today, Robert M. Marshall, vice president of the company, announced at 7 a.m.
Only one of the 34 workers on the level where the blast occurred was saved. Ivan Fox, miner, was taken to the Bessemer Hospital where physicians said he was suffering from burns and gas.
Grimy rescue crews brought the last of the bodies of the victims to the surface shortly after 9 a.m., and Robert M. Marshall, vice president of the Woodward Company, announced officially that the disaster's toll was 33 dead and one injured.
Of the total dead, 12 were white men and 21 were Negroes. Few of the bodies were mangled, the men apparently having died from burns and gas asphyxiation.
Apparent cause of the blast was the explosion of methane gas, according to Frank B. Hillhouse, state mine inspector. Hillhouse said, however, that a "thorough investigation" would be necessary to officially establish the cause.
The explosion wrecked but one level of the shaft mine and about 560 other workers fled to safety when the concussion warned them of the danger.
The bodies recovered were burned but not mangled. Officials said that the miner’s dead had their hands over their faces in an effort to keep from breathing the deadly black damp -- fumes that followed the explosion.
After rescue crews reported to the surface officials announced that it appeared 12 white and 21 Negro miners had been killed.
Hobarat Higgins was listed as one of the missing white miners.
Alabama
October 16, 1937
Mulga, Ala., Oct. 16 (UP) -- Thirty-three bodies have been located in the Woodward Iron Company's coal mine which was partly wrecked by an underground explosion early today, Robert M. Marshall, vice president of the company, announced at 7 a.m.
Only one of the 34 workers on the level where the blast occurred was saved. Ivan Fox, miner, was taken to the Bessemer Hospital where physicians said he was suffering from burns and gas.
Grimy rescue crews brought the last of the bodies of the victims to the surface shortly after 9 a.m., and Robert M. Marshall, vice president of the Woodward Company, announced officially that the disaster's toll was 33 dead and one injured.
Of the total dead, 12 were white men and 21 were Negroes. Few of the bodies were mangled, the men apparently having died from burns and gas asphyxiation.
Apparent cause of the blast was the explosion of methane gas, according to Frank B. Hillhouse, state mine inspector. Hillhouse said, however, that a "thorough investigation" would be necessary to officially establish the cause.
The explosion wrecked but one level of the shaft mine and about 560 other workers fled to safety when the concussion warned them of the danger.
The bodies recovered were burned but not mangled. Officials said that the miner’s dead had their hands over their faces in an effort to keep from breathing the deadly black damp -- fumes that followed the explosion.
After rescue crews reported to the surface officials announced that it appeared 12 white and 21 Negro miners had been killed.
Hobarat Higgins was listed as one of the missing white miners.
From: Anniston Star
Alabama
October 16, 1937
Mulga, Ala., Oct. 16 (UP) -- Thirty-three bodies have been located in the Woodward Iron Company's coal mine which was partly wrecked by an underground explosion early today, Robert M. Marshall, vice president of the company, announced at 7 a.m.
Only one of the 34 workers on the level where the blast occurred was saved. Ivan Fox, miner, was taken to the Bessemer Hospital where physicians said he was suffering from burns and gas.
Grimy rescue crews brought the last of the bodies of the victims to the surface shortly after 9 a.m., and Robert M. Marshall, vice president of the Woodward Company, announced officially that the disaster's toll was 33 dead and one injured.
Of the total dead, 12 were white men and 21 were Negroes. Few of the bodies were mangled, the men apparently having died from burns and gas asphyxiation.
Apparent cause of the blast was the explosion of methane gas, according to Frank B. Hillhouse, state mine inspector. Hillhouse said, however, that a "thorough investigation" would be necessary to officially establish the cause.
The explosion wrecked but one level of the shaft mine and about 560 other workers fled to safety when the concussion warned them of the danger.
The bodies recovered were burned but not mangled. Officials said that the miner’s dead had their hands over their faces in an effort to keep from breathing the deadly black damp -- fumes that followed the explosion.
After rescue crews reported to the surface officials announced that it appeared 12 white and 21 Negro miners had been killed.
Hobarat Higgins was listed as one of the missing white miners.
Alabama
October 16, 1937
Mulga, Ala., Oct. 16 (UP) -- Thirty-three bodies have been located in the Woodward Iron Company's coal mine which was partly wrecked by an underground explosion early today, Robert M. Marshall, vice president of the company, announced at 7 a.m.
Only one of the 34 workers on the level where the blast occurred was saved. Ivan Fox, miner, was taken to the Bessemer Hospital where physicians said he was suffering from burns and gas.
Grimy rescue crews brought the last of the bodies of the victims to the surface shortly after 9 a.m., and Robert M. Marshall, vice president of the Woodward Company, announced officially that the disaster's toll was 33 dead and one injured.
Of the total dead, 12 were white men and 21 were Negroes. Few of the bodies were mangled, the men apparently having died from burns and gas asphyxiation.
Apparent cause of the blast was the explosion of methane gas, according to Frank B. Hillhouse, state mine inspector. Hillhouse said, however, that a "thorough investigation" would be necessary to officially establish the cause.
The explosion wrecked but one level of the shaft mine and about 560 other workers fled to safety when the concussion warned them of the danger.
The bodies recovered were burned but not mangled. Officials said that the miner’s dead had their hands over their faces in an effort to keep from breathing the deadly black damp -- fumes that followed the explosion.
After rescue crews reported to the surface officials announced that it appeared 12 white and 21 Negro miners had been killed.
Hobarat Higgins was listed as one of the missing white miners.
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