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Deadly Explosion in Lick Branch Mine

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 3, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 5.

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Deadly Explosion in Lick Branch Mine

January 12, one hundred or more miners were killed in the Lick Branch mine, twenty miles from Bluefield, W. Va. Fifteen days before, fifty miners lost their lives in the same mine. After the first loss, it was pronounced by officials and most experienced mine experts as absolutely safe. The explosion extended four miles. Great quantities of flames, soot, dust, rocks, slate, heavy timbers, broken mine cars, and even human beings, were thrown out of the opening of the mine.