Bluefield Daily Telegraph McDowell Co. WV 1922 Charleston Daily Mail September 22, 1922 Extracted and Submitted by June White Colonel Tierney Dies at Home in Powhatan Prominent Coal Operator and Democratic Leader Passed Away This Morning Bluefield, Sep't. 22--Colonel L. E. Tierney, prominent coal operator, died at his home at Powahatan early this morning from a stroke of apolexy suffered last Wednesday. He was interested in a number of the most valuable coal properties in the Pocahontas Field and was known as a Democratic leader in the southern part of the state. ________ The death of Colonel Tierney will be greatly mourned in Charleston and in many sections of the state where he was known and admired. He easily ranked as one of West Virginia's best citizens, say those who knew him. He was a bulwark of strength to the Democratic Party of the state and while liberal with his donations and services whenever the political principles which he believed in were at issue, he seldom asked his party for any personal preferment. Two years ago he was an unsuccessful candidate for delegate at large to the Democratic national convention at San Francisco and this is said to be the only time his name has appeared on a party ticket. Colonel Tierney was a party man of the John T. McGraw type, and the latter was strongly entrenched in his affections and allegiance. Colonel Tierney, who gained his military title as an aide on the military staff of former Governor W. A. MacCorkle, was also one of West Virginia's wealthiest coal operators. He maintained a winter home at Washington and spent the summers largely in Powhatan, McDowell County, where his coal interests were located. His brother John Tierney of Philadelphia, is another leading coal operator of West Virginia and was interested with his brother in many of his ventures. The widow and two sons of the immediate family survive. Mrs. Tierney, before her marriage, was Miss Nora Clark of Monroe County. Her brother, Dr. Luther N. Clark, treasurer of the Democratic state executive committee, lives at Kyle, a short distance from Powhatan. The two sons have been abroad and it is not known here today whether they had returned. ********************************************************** Charleston Daily Mail, September 22, 1922 Abstracted and submitted by June White ELEVEN McDOWELL MINING FATALITIES REPORTED IN AUGUST, 1922 Eleven of the twenty-nine persons killed in the mines of West Virginia during August [1922] met their death in McDowell County, according to the monthly report of R. M. Lamble, chief of the state department of mines. . . Names of the Men Killed Wrex Harvell, assistant mine foreman, was injured by being caught between car and rib at No. 2 mine, Central Pocahontas Coal Co., and died August 7. Ernest Rector, miner, was killed by fall of slate at No. 3 mine, Premier Pocahontas Collieries Co. Adah Block, Polish, mining machine helper, was injured by fall of slate at No. 3 mine, Central Pocahontas Coal Co., and died August 29th. C. W. Lawson, short firer, was killed by powder exploding while making up shots to be fired at working places, No. 241 mine, The Consolidation Coal Company Henry Clark, brakeman and motorman, was killed by being run over by motor at No. 254 Mine, The Consolidation Coal Co. Henry Thompson, miner, was killed by fall of slate at Christian Mines, Christian Coal Co. Romey Martin, Negro, miner, was killed by fall of slate at Shawnee Mine, Pulaski Iron Co. Cliff Poindexter, motorman, outside, electrocuted at Bottom Creek Mine, Bottom Creek Coal Co. John B. Fletcher, miner. was killed by fall of slate at Newhall No 7 Mine, New River & Pocahontas Consolidated Coal Co. Alex Szabo, Hungarian, miner, injured by being burned about the face and body by gas which was ignited while setting timber and taking down slate, Yukon No. 1 Mine, Yukon Pocahontas Coal Co., died Aug. 19 J. M. Day, locomotive fireman, outside, was killed by being caught between engine cab and timber at Vera No. 1 Mine, Vera Pocahontas Coal Co.