On This Day in West Virginia History, January 8th

January 8, 2023

Mountaineer News

Vintage West Virginia

On January 8, 1943, a fire in the Pursglove No. 15 coal mine on Scott's Run, Monongalia County, killed 13. Six months earlier, an explosion at the No. 2 mine, pictured above, killed twenty miners.

Learn more: "Casualties on the Homefront: Scotts Run Mining Disasters During World War II" Progress Report of the Mine Fire, Pursglove No. 15 Mine, January 8, 1943 Document-Based Questions