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Miners Kept Off Jobs Until Bodies Removed
In Honeycomb Big Se well Mountain West Virginia mine fields operators halt work as rescue crews seek ten bodies believed drowned after a May 6 flood event in the McKenzie shaft. Maust Coal Co. and Imperial Coal Co. subsidiaries run nine active mines amid a maze of abandoned tunnels. Fifteen men were rescued after five days entombment.
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Hominy Falls
W. Va
Big Sewell Mountain
Maust Coal Co
Imperial Coal Co
Ganley Coal and Coke Co
Maust
McKenzie
C E. Richardson