Posted on 01/21/2006 2:10:00 PM PST by 2111USMC
Edited on 01/21/2006 2:22:59 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
>MELVILLE, W.Va. — Rescuers on Saturday found the bodies of two coal miners who disappeared after a conveyor belt caught fire deep inside a coal mine.
The bodies of Don I. Bragg, 33, and Ellery Hatfield, 47, were found in an area of the mine where rescue teams had been battling the fire for more than 40 hours.
"We have found the two miners we were looking for," said , director of the state Office of Miners' Health Training and Safety. "Unfortunately we don't have a positive outcome."
The miners became separated Thursday evening as their 12-member crew tried to escape a conveyor belt fire at Aracoma Coal's Alma No. 1 mine in Melville, about 60 miles southwest of . The rest of the crew and nine other miners working in a different section of the mine escaped unharmed.
Gov. and U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller informed families of the deaths at a church prior to making the announcement, along with Don Blankenship, chairman of the mine's owner, Massey Energy.
I'm sure rockefeller and byrd have legislation already written that will completely ruin the mining industry.
Looks like all the dems are going to do a political dance on the dead miners. They are truly despicable.
Well, now we seem to be getting a deluge of trapped and dead miners stories. Why? There must be a reason. Who stands to gain by all these tragedies being played up in the media? Is someone trying to close the mines because they want the land or what???
Rockefeller, Kennedy, Enzi and Isakson were here in Buckhannon Saturday for their photo-ops.
Sickening.
Conveniently...Rockefeller did NOT take questions...
He managed to get political...and even talk about how much MORE important coal is than oil...(because he is against ANWR..and Bush)
I think HE and BYRD need to be asked WHY it took these deaths for THEM to do something...my gosh, Rockefeller was the Governor...and they KNOW how dangerous these jobs are...but, NOW they are looking to Washington to fix the problems...that they could have and should have...
Someone needs to demand an answer by these two men!!
Not today. But in coming days, you can bank on it.
He'll propose a series of regulations that will effectively put the coal-mining industry in the hands of government. And if Bush dares to oppose his bill, he'll be "endangering the lives of miners and the security of their families".
The Dems lost West Virginia in the last two elections. They want it back, and they need this issue to get it. That's why Rockefeller was there today.
I noticed that too...Rocky made it about HIM>>>>>!!
What an idiot..and an unfeeling creep!
Wow Hatfield- I am very possibly related- prayers for their families
This has been a terrible month for West Virginia. 14 good men gone. So sad.
Prayers from TX
Two men are dead.
And the men who tried to reach them risked their own lives to try and find them alive.
The Dems may be a-holes enough to make political points today, but we should be above that today. Instead, we should offer prayers for the departed and their families and thanks for the searchers.
If you control the energy supply, you control the United States.
I saw Rockefeller and had to go outside for a cigarette. I'm glad I missed it.
I missed it, how so?
Seriously?
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