NOTICE: This page will be updated whenever I come across any information and sources I find useful on Monongah or specifically to my project. Some sources are not as reliable as others, which matters more to my project than the actual history of Monongah.

As of now, several other sources are not yet listed but will be included as their relevance comes up through the timeline.

Books

1. “Monongah: The Tragic Tale of the Worst Industrial Disaster in U.S. History” by Davitt McAteer (McAteer)

2. “We the People : The Monongah Mining Disaster”

3. The Autobiography of Mother Jones

4. Tell Tale Lilac Bush and other West Virginia Ghost Stores by Ruth Ann Musick

5. Coffin Hollow and other West Virginia Ghost Tales by Ruth Ann Musick

6. Green Hills of Magic: West Virginia Folktales from Europe by Ruth Ann Musick

7. Beyond Monongah by Judith Hoover

Ebooks

1. “Feet First: A Memoir” by Walter A. Baran

2. Charities & Commons…”The Relief Problem at Monongah” by Margaret Byington (Byington)

3. Charities & Commons…”Monongah” by Paul Kellogg (Kellogg)

4. History of the Monongah Mines Relief Fund (Relief)

5. “The Bitter Cry of the Children” by John Spargo

6. “Dead Laws for Dead Men…” by Daniel Curran

7. “Nurses on the Front Line…” Ch 4. (Nurses)

8. A medical survey of the bituminous-coal industry: Report of the Coal mines …

9. Chinese American Death Rituals: Respecting the Ancestors

10. The West Virginia School Journal

11. West Virginia and It’s People

12. For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America Since 1865 By Robert H. Zieger

13. Mine Safety & Health, Volume 3, Issue 1 – Volume 6, Issue 6

14. The Black Diamond, Volume 62

15. Minerals Yearbook: 1908 – Bernal mine

Documents

Report of Hearings before the Joint Select Committee of the Legislature of West Virginia – Coroners Inquiry
Marion County Coroner’s Report – E.S. Amos, Marion County Coroner, December, 1907- January, 1908 (Amos)

*Note: These records can be found at the Marion County Court House Clerks Office.

Denise Shay: Great-great Granddaughter of John Harriman and Caroline Reidy Harriman. *PRICELESS* information on the Harriman family exchanged over email. (Shay)
Mine Disasters – U.S. Dept. of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration, National Mine Health and Safety Academy, 2000
History of the Monongah Mines Relief Fund In Aid of Sufferers from the Monongah Mine Explosion, Monongah, West Virginia, December 6, 1907 published by the Monongah Mines Relief Committee, Trustee of the Fund, for Distribution Among the Contributors and to Others Interested. Fairmont, West Virginia, March 1, 1910.
The Explosions at Monongah Number Six and Monongah Number Eight Mines of the Fairmont Coal Company, December 6, 1907 by Frank Haas

*Note: This document is not available to the public. Due to this factor, the very valuable information Haas has to offer is very limited in this timeline for now. Since this document was physically given to me by a trusted source, I do not have permission to copy and share this document with the public. There’s nothing saying that I can’t go into great detail about this report and share my own report on it however, so that is what I intend to do in the very near future.

Websites

1. Women’s Work in Southern West Virginia Coal Camps

2. Ancestry.com – Monongah Mine Disaster

3. Ch. 5: “On Their Own” – The Scalibrinians in North America

4. Luca Di Mario headstone

5. Catterina Di Carlo Davia – Italian article

6. WV Death, Birth, & Marriage public records search

7. Testimony of Crazic Depetris- Monongah Mine Disaster

8. United States Mine Rescue Association – Monongah Mine Disaster

9. Blog – John Olesky

10. “Stossel Takes on Old Outdated Child Labor Laws”

11. “The Trump-DeVos Budget Would Dismantle Public Education, Hurting Vulnerable Kids, Working Families, and Teachers”

12. Historical Timeline of Public Education in the US

13. “How Amazon Crushed the Union Movement”

14. “The Rise and Fall of Labor Unions in the U.S.” by G. William Domhoff

15. “Why America’s labor unions are about to die”

16. Company Store – Wikipedia

17. US Dept. of Labor – Monongah Mine Disaster

18. Library of Congress – Songs of Immigration and Migration

19. “Funeral procession returning to New Chinatown in Dutch Flat”

20. Chinese Railroad Workers -Oral History

21. Women in the mine towns

22. Jean Battlo

23. On this Day March 8, 1924: Dozens of Greek Immigrant Miners Die in Castle Gate Explosion

24. U.S. Coal Mining’s Deadliest Month: December 1907

25. West Virginia Women’s Organizations, 1880s-1930

26. Hell Raiser’s Journal

27. West Virginia History OnView – Monongah

28. Early Nursing Schools – Pioneer Nurses of WV

29. “Many West Virginians suffer from the Stockholm Syndrome”

30. Timeline of WV Women’s History

31. Marion County Historical Society

32. The Watson Family of Marion County

33. Monongah Glass Company

34. Joey Beafore

35. Joey Beafore

36. A Woman’s Day – Work and Anxiety

37. West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture, and History

38. Federal Reserve History

39. Kentucky Coal Education – Glossary

40.St. Nicholas Center

41. “A History Inside Pictures” by “Monongah native son Larry Brian Radka” (Radka) (NOTE: This webite is no longer available. However, I discovered this site several years ago and when I saw the notice that it was going to be taken down, I did a noble but slightly naughty thing…I completetly copy/pasted every single page, photo, word Larry had published on Monongah and the disaster, arranged it in the same order he had it arranged and saved it into a Microsoft Word document. Though the original source is no longer available, I still have his work saved and will still credit Larry and his site for the information it provided. If there is anyone who was close to Larry or would like this document, I will gladly share it with you.)

42. The West Virginia Encylopedia – Johnson Newlon Camden

43. The West Virginia Encyclopedia – James Otis Watson

44. Find a Grave – Jere Hungerford Wheelwright

45. Biblical Archaeology Society

46. RED MEN AND REDNECKS THE FRATERNAL LODGE IN THE COAL FIELDS by Fred Barkey, Ph. D.

47. Wikipedia – Improved Order of Red Men

48. Instantaneous rigor or something else?

49. How to Distinguish Rigor Mortis from a Cadaveric Spasm

50. Ancient Order of Hibernians

51. Members of the Miller Family and Friends On the Boardwalk including Minnie Watson, 1907

52. Geni.com – Minnie Watson (Owings)

53. Carnegie Hero Fund Commission

54. Vintage Map of Fairmont & Palatine, West Virginia 1897

55. Sefaria – I Samuel

56. Got Questions – Why should we want God to teach us to number our days (Psalm 90:12)?

57. Seventh Grade – 9th and 10th Commandments and their meanings

58. The Westminster, Volume 32

59. Christian Thought, Volume 8 By Charles Force Deems, John Bancroft Devins, Amory Howe Bradford

60. The Advance, Volume 54

61. Homiletical commentary on the book of Job, Volume 15 By Thomas Robinson

62. The Delineator Archives

63. The Waldo Hotel

64. e-WV – Miners Hospitals

65. WV Public Broadcasting – Farmington No. 9: The West Virginia Disaster that Changed Coal Mining Forever

66. Old Industry of Southwestern Pennsylvania

67. Flemings of West Virginia with Photos

68. Marion County Historical Society – Miscellaneous History

69. e-WV – The Black Hand

70. Maryland Historical Society – The Paint and Powder Club

Newspapers

Understanding news citations:

It’s true, I’ve made my own citation method for the newspapers. You’ll find that it can be difficult to keep track of over 400 newspapers and their varied accurate, inaccurate, and corrected information (all of which matters). Also, the typical style of citation formatting left over half of each post as being nothing but space dedicated for citation and the long titles Victorian/Edwardian people loved so very much. They citation key is listed below, indicating the abbreviation for each newspaper.

So, citations at the end of lines, pictures and quotes which read something like: (CDT 12.7.07 pg 4) indicates that this information comes from the Clarksburg Daily Telegram publication for December 7th, 1907, page 4.

(CDT 12.7.07 pg 4 extra) or (CDT 12.7.07 pg 4 noon) = Clarksburg Daily Telegram December 7, 1907 page 4 of the “extra” or “noon” publication. If you choose to use the free resources of the Library of Congress, you will find that page numbers are sometimes unclear and there may be multiple copies of the same page

(News) – Citation indicates there are multiple papers which published this information. *Researcher’s Note: In the case of Monongah, multiple sources does not equate confirmation of events. This is simply the information which got passed around at the time, some of it was more widespread than others. This will be discussed further in an “Issues” post.

1. Press Democrat, Volume XXXIII, Number 292, 15 December 1907

2. Library of Congress – Chronicling America (note: This link should take you to search results for every newspaper in their archive from every state of the U.S.A. during Dec 1, 1907 – Dec 31, 1907 which actually use the word “Monongah”. The following are papers I have found out of that collection which have useful information on the Monongah Disaster.)

Arizona – Arizona Republican (AR)

Arizona – Daily Arizona Silver Belt (DASB)

Arizona – The Bisbee Daily Review (BDR)

Arizona – Tombstone Epitaph (TE)

Arizona – Williams News (WN)

Arkansas – The Forrest City Times (FCT)

California – L’Italia

California – Los Angeles Herald (LAH)

California – San Francisco Call (SFC)

Colorado – Canon City Record (CCR)

Colorado – Rocky Ford Enterprise (RFE)

Colorado – The Jewish Outlook (JO)

Colorado – The New Era (NE)

Colorado – The Ordway New Era (ONE)

Colorado – The Springfield Herald (SH)

Connecticut – Daily Morning Journal and Courier (DMJC)

Connecticut – The Morning Journal-Courier (MJC)

Connecticut – Waterbury Evening Democrat (WED)

DC – Alexandria Gazette (AG)

DC – Evening Star (ES)

DC – Washington Herald (WH)

DC – Washington Times (WT)

Delaware – Evening Journal (EJ)

Florida – Gainesville Daily Sun (GDS)

Florida – Live Oak Daily Democrat (LODD)

Florida – Ocala Evening Star (OES)

Florida – Panama City Pilot (PCP)

Florida – The Pensacola Journal (TPJ)

Hawaii – Pacific Commercial Advertiser (PCA)

Hawaii – The Hawaiian Gazette (HG)

Hawaii – The Hawaiian Star (HS)

Hawaii – The Maui News (MN)

Idaho – American Falls Press (AFP)

Idaho – Camas Prarie Chronicle (CPC)

Idaho – Coeur dAlene Evening Press (CdE)

Idaho – Elk City Mining News (ECMN)

Idaho – Lewiston Evening Teller (LET)

Illinois – Dziennik Chicagoski

Illinois – Rock Island Argus (RIA)

Illinois – The Cairo Bulletin (CB)

Indiana – Lake County Times (LCT)

Indiana – Richmond Palladium (RP)

Indiana – The Plymouth Tribune (PT)

Iowa – Evening Times Republican (ETR)

Iowa – Iowa State Bystander (ISB)

Iowa – Manchester Democrat (MD)

Iowa – Ottumwa Tri-weekly Courier (OTC)

Iowa – Twice a week plain dealer (TWPD)

Kansas – Abilene Weekly Reflector (AWR)

Kansas – The Chanute Times (CT)

Kansas – Topeka State Journal (TSJ)

Kentucky – Hopkinsville Kentickian (HK)

Kentucky – The Adair County News (ACN)

Kentucky – The Big Sandy News (BSN)

Kentucky – The Breckenridge News (BN)

Kentucky – The Interior Journal (IJ)

Kentucky – The Paducah Evening Sun (PES)

Louisiana – Le Meschacebe (LM)

Louisiana – New Iberia Enterprise and Independent (NIEI)

Louisiana – Sugar Planter (SP)

Louisiana – The Caucasian (TC)

Louisiana – The Madison Journal (MJ)

Maryland – Catoctin Clarion (CC)

Maryland – Der Deutsche Correspondent

Maryland – Frostburg Mining Journal (FMJ)

Maryland – The Aegis and Intelligencer (AI)

Maryland – The Baltimore County Union (BCU)

Maryland – The Democratic Advocate (DA)

Maryland – The Midland Journal (MJ)

Michigan – The Diamond Drill (DD)

Michigan – The Yale Expositor (YE)

Minnesota – Bemidji Daily Pioneer (BDP)

Minnesota – Little Falls Herald (LFH)

Minnesota – New Ulm Review (NUR)

Minnesota – St. Paul Tidende

Minnesota – The Irish Standard (TIS)

Minnesota – The Mirror (TM)

Minnesota – The Worthington Advance (TWA)

Minnesota – Warren Sheaf (WS)

Minnesota – Wiarus

Minnesota – Wilmar Tribune (WT)

Mississippi – The Brandon News (TBN)

Mississippi – The Commonwealth (TC)

Mississippi – The Greenville Times (TGT)

Mississippi – The Kemper Herald (TKH)

Mississippi – The Port Gibson Reveille (TPGR)

Mississippi – The Semi-Weekly Leader (TSWL)

Mississippi – The Tupelo Journal (TTJ)

Mississippi – The Weekly Corinthian (TWC)

Missouri – Mexico Missouri Message (MMM)

Missouri – Iron County Register (ICR)

Missouri – Monroe City Democrat (MCD)

Missouri – Potosi Journal (PJ)

Missouri – The Holt County Sentinel (THCS)

Missouri – The Laclede Blade (TLB)

Missouri – The Marshall Republican (TMR)

Missouri – The Montgomery Tribune (TMT)

Missouri – The Morgan County Republican (TMCR)

Missouri – The Rich Hill Trbune (TRHT)

Montana – The Billings Gazette (TBG)

Montana – The Havre Herald (THH)

Montana – The River Press (TRP)

Montana – The Western News (TWN)

Nebraska – Dakota County Herald (DCH)

Nebraska – Omaha Daily Bee (ODB)

Nebraska – The Columbus Journal (TCJ)

Nebraska – The Commoner (TC)

Nebraska – The Nebraska Advertiser (TNA)

Nebraska – The Norfolk Weekly News-Journal (NWNJ)

Nebraska – The Red Cloud Chief (TRCC)

Nebraska – The Wageworker (TW)

Nebraska – Valentine Democrat (VD)

Nevada – Carson City Daily Appeal (CCDA)

Nevada – Tonopah Daily Bonanza (TBD)

New Jersey – Perth Amboy Evening News (PAEN)

New Mexico – Albuquerque Citizen (AC)

New Mexico – Albuquerque Morning Journal (AMJ)

New Mexico – El Independiente (EI)

New Mexico – Roswell Daily Record (RDR)

New Mexico – Santa Fe New Mexican (SFNM)

New York – New York Tribune (NYTb)

New York – The Evening World (TEW)

New York – The Sun (TS)

North Carolina – Goldsboro Weekly Argus (GWA)

North Carolina – The Carolina Watchman (TCW)

North Carolina – The French Broad Hustler (TFBH)

North Carolina – The Semi-Weekly Messenger (TSWM)

North Dakota – Bismarck Daily Tribune (BDT)

North Dakota – Courier Democrat (CD)

North Dakota – Der Staats Anzeiger

North Dakota – Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake Free Press (DLFP)

North Dakota – Golden Valley Chronicle (GVC)

North Dakota – Jamestown Weekly Alert (JWA)

North Dakota – The Bottineau Courant (TBC)

North Dakota – The Hope Pioneer (THP)

North Dakota – The Oakes Times (TOT)

North Dakota – The Washburn Leader (TWL)

North Dakota – Williston Graphic (WG)

Ohio – Perrysburg Journal (PJ)

Ohio – Stark County Democrat (SCD)

Ohio – The Democrat -Sentinel (TDS)

Ohio – The Greenville Journal (TGJ)

Ohio – The Marion Daily Mirror (TMDM)

Ohio – The News Herald (TNH)

Oklahoma – Daily Ardmoreite (DA)

Oklahoma – Indian Territory – The Vinita Daily Chieftain (TVDC)

Oregon – Daily capital journal (DCJ)

Oregon – East Orgeonian (EO)

Oregon – Heppner Gazette (HG)

Oregon – Morning Astorian (MA)

Oregon – The News=Record (TNR)

Oregon – The Oregon Mist (TOM)

Pennsylvania – Cameron County Press (CCP)

Pennsylvania – Pittsburgh Press (PP)

Pennsylvania – The Columbian (TC)

Pennsylvania – The Forest Republican (TFR)

Pennsylvania – The Fulton County News (TFCN)

South Carolina – Keowee Courier (KC)

South Carolina – The Bamberg Herald (TBH)

South Carolina – The Herald and News (THN)

South Carolina – The Manning Times (TMT)

South Dakota – Deutscher Herold

South Dakota – Madison Daily Leader (MDL)

South Dakota – Pierre Weekly Free Press (PWFP)

South Dakota – The Aberdeen Democrat (TAD)

South Dakota – The Citizen Republican (TCR)

South Dakota – The Herald-Advance (THA)

Tennessee – The Columbia Herald (TCH)

Texas – Bryan Morning Eagle (BME)

Texas – Jefferson Jimplecute (JJ)

Texas – Palestine daily Herald (PDH)

Utah – Deseret Evening News (DEN)

Utah – Salt Lake Herald (SLH)

Utah – Salt Lake Tribune (SLT)

Vermont – Bennington Evening Banner (BEB)

Vermont – Cronaca Sovversiva

Vermont – Herlald and News (HN)

Vermont – Middlebury Register (MR)

Vermont – Orleans County Monitor (OCM)

Virgina – Staunton Spectator and Vindicator (SSV)

Virginia – Daily Press (DP)

Virginia – Highland Recorder (HR)

Virginia – The Farmville Herald (TFH)

Virginia – The Free Lance (TFL)

Virginia – Times Dispatch (TD)

Washington – Pullman Herald (PH)

Washington – The Evening Statesman (TES)

Washington – The Kennewick Courier (TKC)

Washington – The Newoprt Miner (TNM)

Washington – The Seattle Star (1908)

Washington – The Spokane Press (TSP)

Washington – Washington State Journal (WSJ)

West Virginia – Bluefield Evening Leader (BEL)

West Virginia – Clarksburg Daily Telegram (CDT)

West Virginia – Fairmont West Virginian (FWV)

West Virginia – The Advocate (TA)

West Virginia – The Labor Argus (TLA)

West Virginia – The Weekly Register (TWA)

West Virginia – West Virginia Argus (WVA)

Wisconsin – Der Sonntagsbote

Wisconsin – The Manitowoc Pilot (TMP)

Wisconsin – The Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter (TWTR)

Wisconsin – Vernon County censor (VCC)

Wisconsin – Watertown Weekly Leader (WWL)

Wisconsin – Wausau Pilot (WP)

Wisconsin – Wood County Reporter (WCR)

3. Newspapers.com

*Note: Newspapers.com is NOT a free site, though you can get a free 7 day trial. It is for this reason that my Newspaper.com sources are far more limited as I only had 7 days to comb through the site.

Alabama – Jones Valley Times (JVT)

Illinois – The Dectaur Herald (TDH)

Indiana – Fort Wayne Daily News (FWDN)

Indiana – The Evansville Press (TEP)

Maryland – Cumberland Evening Times (CET)

Maryland – The Baltimore Sun (TBS)

Massachusetts – Boston Globe (BG)

Michigan – Detroit Free Press (DFP)

Michigan – News-Palladium (NP)

Michigan – The Herald-Press (THP)

Nebraska – Lincoln Journal Star (LJS)

New York – The Buffalo Enquirer (TBE)

New York – The New York Times (NYT)

Ohio – Dayton Herald (DH)

Pennsylvania – New Castle Herald (NCH)

Pennsylvania – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PPG)

Pennsylvania – Pittsburgh Daily Post (PDP)

Pennsylvania – Wilkes-Barre Record (WBR)

Pennsylvania – The Wilkes-Barre Times Leader Evening (TWBTL-E)

West Virginia – The Clarksburg Telegram (TCT)

West Virginia – The Raleigh Herald (TRH)

4. Google newspaper archives

Maryland – The Afro American Ledger

Pennsylvania – Pittsburg Post-Gazette

Other publications

1. The Devil was the First Scab: Working Class Spirituality & Union Organization in Marion County, WV 1918-1927

2. “Masculine and Dead in the Mining Community: The Gender in of Death and the Monongah Mine Explosion of 1907” by Brett Schmoll

3. Facebook – Muskingum County History – The ruins of the Muskingum Coffin Factory following the 1913 flood.

4. The Normal on the Avenue: History of Fairmont Normal’s Southside Campus, 1893-1916

Documentary / Film

1. Oral History, Coal Mining in West Virginia

2. The Labor Wars

3. Native America before Colonization

4. Blood on the Mountain

(Watch Blood on the Mountain for free on Tubi.com)

5. Hillbilly

6. Women of These Hills – 3 Cultures of Appalachia – 2000

7. The Early History of Appalachia

8. Trouble Behind – The Corbin, Kentucky Documentary (1991)

9. MOUNTAIN TALK (full documentary, official video)

10. Coal Rush (FULL DOCUMENTARY)

11. Monongah – La Marcinelle Americana

Videos

1. [PHTM] Monongah

2. Highlights of Coal Miners

3. The Telltale Lilac Bush – The WV Network

4. First snow in Monongah (a drive down Booth’s Creek Rd.)

5. Hall Family Road Trips

6. Working on the Railroad

7. Interview with Kathern Herndon Loss (in author’s possession). Life-long Monongah resident. Daughter of Ira and Lucritia Herndon, Granddaughter of Ellis V. Herndon who was killed in the Monongah Disaster, and this author’s grandmother. (Loss)

8. Escape From Farmington No 9 An Oral History

9. 1968 Farmington Mine Disaster (West Virginia State Archives)

10. Darr Mine Memorial – PBS

11. The Darr Mine Disaster – YouTube

12. TGR Molise del 9.12.2019 – A Matera nel ricordo di Monongah

13. Monongah, la tragedia della miniera ricordata con gli studenti a Frosolone

14. SI RINNOVA LA MEMORIA PER LE 87 VITTIME DELLA TRAGEDIA DI MONONGAH

15. Stories from West Virginia Mine Tragedy

16. Fallout 76 Series: Episode 20: Real Life Town of Monongah, West Virginia

17. CCTV footage from Soma mining disaster – BBC News

18. La tragedia di Monongha – Pino Nano

19. fathers day