Coal Mines and Mining

• Mines Listing
• Mine Union Radicalism by Victor Hicken

Cahokia Township

• Benld Coal Mines Nos. 1
• Mine No. 5 - Giant Booze Plant from Daryl Butcher
• Mine No. 5 - Investigation by Frank Masters
• Mine #5 and Capone story related by George Lacy

Dorchester Township

• Wilsonville Coal Mine No. 4

Gillespie Township

• Little Dog Mine and Monterey Mine No. 1 by Larry Clark
• Superior Coal Company's mine No. 3 in Mt. Clare sunk 1915 and closed 1954

Mt. Olive Township

• Mt. Olive Coal Mine No. 8 by Sharon Buethner
• Henry Schultze, a Loader at No. 8 Shaft Killed 1893 Jul 29 Mt. Olive Herald
• Superior Mine No 2 in Sawyerville description and pictures by Daryl Butcher
• 1940 Oct 13 Memorial Program honoring Mother Jones, Union Labor Leader buried at Mt. Olive

Nilwood Township

• Greenridge booming coal mining town now completely gone

Staunton Township

• Miners Hold Mass Meeting 1917 Aug 10 Staunton Star-Times
• Miners' 8-Hour Day Began 01 Apr 1898 1923 Apr 05 Staunton Star-Times
• Crusher At No. 2 Destroyed by Fire 1926 Dec 09 Staunton Star-Times
• No. 2 Mine Resumes Operations 1928 May 03 Staunton Star-Times
• Gradual Installation of New Equipment Virtually Completed 1929 Jul 11 Staunton Star-Times
• No. 7 Mine Shut Down Tuesday 1930 Feb 20 Staunton Star-Times
• Have Sealed No. 7 Mine 1930 Mar 13 Staunton Star-Times
• No. 2 Still Idle 1933 Apr 27 Staunton Star-Times
• No. 2 Mine is Again Operating 1933 May 11 Staunton Star-Times
• Mine No. 15 Will Cease to Operate 1951 May 17 Staunton Star-Times
• No. 7 Mine Will Cease to Operate 1951 Aug 23 Staunton Star-Times
• No. 7 Mine Will Be Ready to Hoist Coal Next Week 1951 Sep 06 Staunton Star-Times
• Mine No. 7 Has Ceased Operation 1951 Nov 15 Staunton Star-Times
• Mine No. 2 Close After 53 Years of Steady Operations 1957 Jun 27 Staunton Star-Times

Virden Township

• 1917 Virden Tigers Football Team was made up of miners
• Virden Coal Mine Riot of 1898
  
  • Recruiting Flyer in Birmingham, AL, for strike-breakers
  • Newspaper Articles contributed by Pam Robertson Ripplinger
  • 1940 Oct 13 Memorial Program honoring Mother Jones, Union Labor Leader buried at Mt. Olive
  • O'Neil House in Virden used by Union Miners in the 1898 Strike, and pictures of Kate O'Neil, her son William and Kate's mother Sarah McCranor
  • Union Miners' Cemetery in Mt Olive, IL donated by S Joan Miley
  • Coal Miners' Side of the Case 1915 St. Louis Post Dispatch
  • New York Newspaper Coverage Page 1, Page 2 1898 Oct 22 Saturday Globe, Utica, NY
  • The Virden and Pana Mine Wars of 1898 article by Victor Hicken

I caught your piece about the bookstore in Carlinville and the chap there being interested in the Virden-Pana mine riot. I wrote an article on that back in the fifties for the Illinois Historical Journal. It was the first done on that incident and has been cited many times. Perhaps the fellow can find that in his local library. Also it occurs to me that you may not know that the famous "Mother" Jones (a nationally known labor union figure) is buried in Mt. Olive. The liberal-radical magazine now published derives its name from her."   Victor Hicken

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