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11 of 12 coal miners falsely reported to be alive are actually dead
Associated Press - Televised at 3:05AM Eastern Time by ABC News; Televised at 3:35AM Eastern Time by NBC News

TALLMANSVILLE, W.Va. Jan 4, 2006 — Family members learned early Wednesday that 11 of the 12 coal miners who were initially thought to have survived an explosion in a coal mine have died.

Families learned of the deaths from mine officials more than three hours after Gov. Joe Manchin said he had been told 12 of the miners survived the disaster. The sole survivor of the disaster was hospitalized, a doctor said.

International Coal Group Chief Executive Officer Ben Hatfield told the families that only one miner, Randal McCloy, had survived the explosion.


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Hatfield told the families gathered at the Sago Baptist Church that "there had been a lack of communication, that what we were told was wrong and that only one survived," said John Groves, whose brother Jerry Groves was one of the trapped miners.

At that point, chaos broke out in the church and a fight started.


Well, that sucks for those poor people.  Told that their loved ones were alive when in fact they actually were dead.  I would sue :p.

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RE: 11 of 12 coal miners falsely reported to be alive; actually dead
That would be such a shock, to have all the relief of knowing they are alive, to then suddenly having them dead again
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That would be such a shock, to have all the relief of knowing they are alive, to then suddenly having them dead again

Doubt they had any relief, knowing one was dead...
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That would be such a shock, to have all the relief of knowing they are alive, to then suddenly having them dead again

Doubt they had any relief, knowing one was dead...
And i wonder if u'd feel a bit of guilt, as you are the only one to make it out alive :S
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RE: 11 of 12 coal miners falsely reported to be alive; actually dead
I've been following this story since the beginning... pretty interesting. Last night before I went to bed, everyone was reporting that 12 miners were alive, and I thought it was really a miracle, especially after the deadly levels of carbon monoxide were detected and one miner was found dead. Then I woke up this morning and turned the news back on, expecting to see reports on the health of the 12 miners, but it turns out that only one miner was found alive. WTF? :-/

Hopefully we'll soon learn how such a huge miscommunication was possible...
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Yeah, was quite an interesting development...One of the miners families has already threatened to sue over it, and I dont blame them. That was such a bad error on the part of the States command center..

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That is really the worst "error" to ever have happened. I bet the guy that announced that they were alive felt like a retard after that.
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RE: 11 of 12 coal miners falsely reported to be alive; actually dead
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One of the miners families has already threatened to sue over it
Typical American, your family member just died and what are you thinking about?... Sueing somebody because he said something wrong :s. Sure, it was a big mistake and very sad for those people to hear things like that. But are you gonna sue people because things got mixed up by the chaos that was there when people were actually trying to save your family member's life?

If you want to sue people so bad, sue the coal company for letting them work in such a dangerous situation. This was just a miscommunication (bas one, but still) that happened in a few hours of chaos. Letting people work in mines that take hundreds of lives every year was something the coal company "carefully" decided to do.
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poor families, that must be very sad
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One of the miners families has already threatened to sue over it
Typical American, your family member just died and what are you thinking about?... Sueing somebody because he said something wrong :s. Sure, it was a big mistake and very sad for those people to hear things like that. But are you gonna sue people because things got mixed up by the chaos that was there when people were actually trying to save your family member's life?

If you want to sue people so bad, sue the coal company for letting them work in such a dangerous situation. This was just a miscommunication (bas one, but still) that happened in a few hours of chaos. Letting people work in mines that take hundreds of lives every year was something the coal company "carefully" decided to do.





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