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Pocahontas Fuel Inc.
Caswell Creek Colliery Roof Fall

Freeman, Mercer County, West Virginia
February 19, 1918
No. Killed - 4



Four miners were killed while cleaning up a slate fall on the main entry of Caswell Creek Colliery of the Pocahontas Fuel Company.

The deceased:
  • Thomas Brown
  • Richard Delaney
  • Roosevelt Delaney
  • Janos Szabo




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