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Large group of people in the streets trying to identify the dead after the Monongah Mine disaster.

13. Trying to Identify the Dead After the Monongah, W. Va. Mine Disaster

Caskets line the street which served as a makeshift morgue for the miners killed in the explosion at the Fairmont Coal Company Monongah Mines.

14. Street Morgue After Monongah Mine Disaster

Caskets line the street which served as a makeshift morgue for the miners killed in the explosion at the Fairmont Coal Company Monongah Mines.

15. Street Morgue After Monongah Mine Disaster

Caskets line the street, a makeshift morgue for the miners killed in the explosion at Fairmont Coal Company's Monongah Mines.

16. Street Morgue After Monongah Mine Disaster

Caskets line the street which served as a makeshift morgue for the miners killed in the explosion at the Fairmont Coal Company Monongah Mines.  Note: image is taken from the original print donated to the West Virginia Collection.

17. Street Morgue After Monongah Mine Disaster

Vance Harvey was the son of W. F. Harvey. Information with the photograph includes "Taken when a member of football team at Ellicot City College, Maryland, killed in mine not long after through school. Slate Fall. He was trained as a mine executive but was in the mine and was killed."

18. Vance Harvey, Ellicott City, Md.