[Valin]

"And I pray when I die, and my ages shall roll.
That my body will blacken and turn into coal.
Then I'll look thru the door of my heavenly home,
and pity the miners digging my bones.
Where it's dark as a dungeon damp as the dew,
the dangers are doubled and pleasures are few.
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines,
it's dark as a dungon way down in the mine."

[Tennessee_Bob]

Fraterville Mine after the explosion on May 19, 1902

Friends and relatives gathering outside the adjacent Thistle Mine awaiting word of the rescue efforts

A portion of the farewell letter written by Jacob Vowell before he suffocated in the Fraterville Mine asking to be buried with his 14-year old son Elbert next to the grave of little Eddie

Jacob, Ellen, Lilly and James Vowell