Press photo of Benwood mine disaster rescue workers, April 28, 1924.
This press photo shows rescue workers wearing oxygen tanks entering the coal mine operated by the Wheeling Steel & Iron Corporation in Benwood to search for survivors after a violent explosion in the mine on April 28, 1924. Unfortunately, no survivors were found.
- photograph from the collections of the Ohio County Public Library Archives.
Commemorative fobs like this one were issued by Wheeling Steel to the rescue workers who attempted to find survivors of the 1924 Benwood mine explosion.
Commemorative fobs like this one were issued by Wheeling Steel to the rescue workers who attempted to find survivors of the 1924 mine explosion.
-fob from the personal collection of Seán Duffy