Disasters in West Virginia - Coal Mining Disasters in West Virginia, Earthquakes in West Virginia, Natural Disasters in West Virginia (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Coal Mining Disasters in West Virginia, Earthquakes in West Virginia, Natural Disasters in West Virginia, West Virginia Hurricanes, West Virginia Tornadoes, Sago Mine Disaster, Hurricane Camille, Super Outbreak, Hurricane Opal, First North American Blizzard of 2010, Hurricane Ivan, Hurricane Hazel, Hurricane Hugo, Effects of Hurricane Ike in Inland North America, 1993 Storm of the Century, Hurricane Bob, 2002 Midwest to Mid-Atlantic United States Tornado Outbreak, North American Blizzard of 2009, Southern Airways Flight 932, Hurricane Erin, Hurricane Fran, Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950, Hurricane Bob, Silver Bridge, Monongah Mining Disaster, Farmington Mine Disaster, Effects of Hurricane Isabel in West Virginia, Hurricane Juan, Buffalo Creek Flood, Hawks Nest Tunnel Disaster, Aracoma Alma Mine Accident, 1886 Charleston Earthquake, 1944 Appalachians Tornado Outbreak, 1929 Rye Cove, Virginia Tornado Outbreak, 1991 West Virginia Derecho. Excerpt: The Aracoma Alma Mine accident occurred when a conveyor belt in the Aracoma Alma Mine No. 1 at Melville in Logan County, West Virginia caught fire. The conveyor belt ignited on the morning of January 19, 2006, pouring smoke through the gaps in the wall and into the fresh air passageway that the miners were supposed to use for their escape, obscuring their vision and ultimately leading to the death of two of them.If the wall sections had been in place, they would have prevented any exchange of air between the conveyor belt and the fresh air intake, the primary source of air for workers inside the mine. Instead, investigators now believe, smoke flooded into the air intake, which also serves as an escape route, disorienting two of the miners, who became lost and died in the fire.The two men, Ellery Hatfield, 47 and Don Bragg, 3...