1919 Kimball mining disaster

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|title=Kimball mining disaster

|image_name=File:Front page of the Oklahoma City times July 18 1919.jpg

|caption= Front page of the Oklahoma City times July 18, 1919

|date= July 18, 1919

|time=

|place=Carswell coal mine in Kimball, West Virginia which was owned by the Tazewell Creek Coal company

|coordinates =

|cause=Coal mine explosion

|casualties1=6 dead

|casualties2=

}}

The Kimball mining disaster happened on July 18, 1919, at the Carswell coal mine in Kimball, West Virginia, killing six miners. {{sfn|Greenberg|2006|p=192}} Initial reports said that 221 men had been killed but they were trapped by the explosion. A rescue party was able to dig through the wreckage, allowing 215 to return alive to the surface. {{sfn|The Oklahoma City Times|1919|p=1}}

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{{cite book |last=Greenberg|first=Michael I. | title = Encyclopedia of Terrorist, Natural, and Man-made Disasters|year=2006| publisher = Jones & Bartlett Learning| isbn= 9780763737825}} - Total pages: 295
{{cite news |date=July 18, 1919|title= Rescuers Search For bodies of 14 men in Wreckage|last=The Oklahoma City Times|author-link=The Oklahoma Times|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86064187/1919-07-18/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=07%2F18%2F1919&index=11&rows=20&sequence=1&date2=07%2F18%2F1919&words=&dateFilterType=range&page=2|newspaper=The Oklahoma City Times|location=Oklahoma City|issn=2333-0201|oclc=13764083|access-date= July 18, 2019 }}

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Category:Coal mining disasters in West Virginia

Category:1919 disasters in the United States

Category:1919 mining disasters

Category:1919 in West Virginia

Category:July 1919 in the United States

Category:Kimball, West Virginia