Miners

Josiah Court
1938) was an English physician who determined the cause of miners' nystagmus and was responsible for greatly reducing the incidence of the disease, which causes partial or ... Derbyshire, and was consulting surgeon to the Derbyshire Miners' Union ... and persuaded the owners to install proper lighting to supplement the miners' lamps ...

Cripple Creek Miners' Strike Of 1894 - Events of The Strike
... On March 14, they obtained a court injunction ordering the miners not to interfere with the operation of their mines, and brought in a small number of strikebreakers ... These tactics succeeded in keeping the many nonunion miners away ... On March 16, an armed group of miners ambushed and captured six sheriff's deputies en route to the Victor mine ...

Tony Barbee - UTEP
... Barbee was hired as the coach of the Miners on August 14, 2006, succeeding Doc Sadler, who moved to coach Nebraska ... Barbee spent four seasons in El Paso, and the Miners improved steadily each year ... The Miners made the NCAA Tournament for the first time in five seasons ...

Clydach Vale - History - Colliery Disasters
1941, seven men were killed and 53 were injured when a trolley transporting miners down a sharply sloping shaft ran out of control ... Most of the injuries and fatalities were to miners who leapt from the spake and were thrown back under the trolley due to the narrowness of the drift shaft ... poor ventilation allowed a build-up of flammable gas, killed 31 miners ...

History Of Coal Mining In The United States - Mechanization
... As mechanization continued, fewer miners were needed, and some miners reacted with violence ... higher wages for those still employed, but hard times for the former miners because there were very few other jobs in or near the camps ...