Remembering the Benwood Mine Disaster 100 years ago
by WV MetroNews
WV MetroNews— Sunday marks the 100th anniversary of the Benwood Mine Disaster. It was shortly after 7 a.m. on Monday, April 28, 1924, when an explosion and fire tore through the Wheeling Steel Corporation mine in the northern panhandle community just south of Wheeling. Over 100 men had gone in the mine just a half-hour before to
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