From springheel_jack's post comments thread:
jhfurnish
2006-01-04 07:44 pm UTCWest Virginians aren't particularly smart to begin with. They were carved off Virginia proper (used to be part of that state) after the Civil War started because they didn't want to fight the Union (most of them, some went Confederate) and the Union wanted the mines. So, Congress partitioned it ( Read more... )

There is yes a layer of horror in the fact that there was a false report that twelve miners had lived, one died, and that this was allowed to stand uncorrected for three hours, long enough for the report to make final press and headlines around the world, long enough for families to rejoice and prepare for a celebration, only to find that it was ( Read more... )