The Red Jacket Mine Explosion

EPISODE · Jan 9, 2016 · 13 MIN

The Red Jacket Mine Explosion

from Stories of Appalachia · host Steve Gilly, Rod Mullins

On this episode of Stories, Steve and Rod tell the story of what is possibly the worst mining disaster in the history of Virginia. Forty-five men lost their lives in 1938 when an explosion tore through the Red Jacket Coal Company’s mine at Keen Mountain, near Grundy, at shift change time. You can subscribe to […]

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