Tank's Poetry
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Location: 37° 57.506′ N, 81° 9.947′ W. Marker is in Whipple Junction, West Virginia, in Fayette County. It is at the intersection of Okey L Patterson Road (West Virginia Route 612) and Scarbro Road (Route 1/5), on the right on Okey L Patterson Road. It is across from the Whipple Company Store and Museum. Marker is at or near this postal address: 7485 Okey L Patteson Rd, Scarbro WV 25917. Photographed by J. J. Prats Source: Historic Marker Database
Dreadful Explosion in Whipple Coal Mine The Piqua Daily Call, Ohio May 2, 1907 Hinton, W. Va., May 2. -- Sixty-one men are believed to have lost their lives as the result of an explosion in the Whipple mine at Scarboro, Wednesday afternoon. Eighty-one men were working in the mine at the time of the explosion, the cause of which has not been learned. All but 61 escaped. The only others whose names are known are:
Of those, about half were still alive but all were burned and blackened in a horrible manner. The work of rescue was still going forward, but the percentage of the dead increased with each minute. The fumes in the mine are steadily overcoming the crippled survivors of the first shock. It is believed that the list will go above sixty. The explosion occurred at a time when the full complement of miners was under the earth. The cause of the explosion has not yet been ascertained, but fire damp is suspected. The Whipple mine lies about four miles from the Parral mine, in which the great explosion occurred a year ago and still nearer the Stuart mine, in which almost a hundred miners perished in the month of February. An attempt was being made to connect by tunnel the Whipple and Stuart shafts, and it is suspected that this work was, in a measure responsible for the explosion. The mine is the property of the syndicate headed by Samuel Dixon, the Fayette coal king, and is considered one of the most valuable properties in the Fayette district. The location of the mine is remote from telegraphic communication and the only telephone line reaching the place is under control of the mining company, hence it has been found impossible to secure details. The miners were, for the most part Hungarians, with a few negroes and native whites. The dead are:
Official list of the deceased according to the 1907 Annual Report of the West Virginia Department of Mines. 
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