Photos Show Where the 53 Died at Coal Glen, May 31, 1925

Where 53 Died At Coal Glen

Photos by the Durham Sun

The Tipple (framework upon which mine cars are run in and out of mine) and entrance to the Carolina mine at Coal Glen. The mine is a slope mine and not a shaft, the tunnel entering the ground at an angle where the men are leaning over the rail. Up the tracks show the last of the 53 bodies were brought yesterday.

Awaiting their dead are shown here a portion of the bereaved families, mothers, wives and children. Notice the lines in the face of the woman whose arms are folded, the child in arms of the extremely young mother and the sobbing girl who holds to her mother’s arm as the mother bows her head, feeling her grief too sacred to be photographed.

Some of those who waited and watched behind the rope barriers while the work of rescue went on.

Left—W.T. White, young Huntington, West Va. Miner, who just recently arrived at the Deep River field. Center—One of the colored miners employed at the Ramsey mine, called to aid in the rescue work. Right—W.A. Jones of Gulf, N.C., miner for nearly two score years, who sank the Carolina slope and was superintendent of the mine for 6 ½ years, or more than three-fourths of its existence.

Four nurses from the Sanford hospital, who were on the scene within three hours of the explosions and who did splendid work at Coal Glen.

From the front page of The Durham Sun, Sunday morning, May 31, 1925

To see these photographs, go to: newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn84020732/1925-05-31/ed-1/seq-1/#words=MAY+31%2C+1925