
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, May 13, 1995                   TAG: 9505190019
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C4   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: GREG EDWARDS
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

MEMORIAL FOR MINERS IS PLANNED

A $1,000 contribution from a United Mine Workers local has boosted a Dickenson County citizen group's effort to erect a memorial to the county's coal-mining dead.

So far, the group, Mountain People and Places, has identified about 300 Dickenson County workers or residents who were killed in mines inside and outside the county between 1918 and 1994, according to Darold Phipps of Clinchco, a spokesman for the group.

The youngest was 5-year-old Everette Dutton, who died Jan. 31, 1947. Henry Dutton had gone into a "wagon mine" to get a sack of coal for his home use, and his son followed. A huge block of slate fell from the mine roof, crushing the boy and seriously injuring his father.

The group is interested in identifying any coal-mining victims who are not already on its list and who may have relatives in Western Virginia, Phipps said.

Plans are for the monument to have brass plaques with the names of each of the dead, Phipps said. Its estimated cost is $16,000, he said. Phipps' phone number is (703)835-9593.

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