Do you have any LITCHFORD'S on your list? Bill Bryant ----- Original Message ----- From: Robert Crabtree <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 12:57 PM Subject: RE: [VATAZEWE] question regarding Pocahontas Fuel Co. > > Carrie Blackwell wrote: > >>>>Please post any responses to the entire list, as I am also > interested in this > company. My great grandfather, Charles Yates, was killed in a mine > explosion > in 1932 in Boissevain. > Thank you, > Carrie Blackwell<<<<<<<<< > I have a list of the names of those killed in that explosion. I also > have a photo or two after the explosion. I have newspaper clippings > of the explosion and remembrances. There was also a poem written of > which I have a copy. My father would have been in the explosion had > he not been recuperating from an injury suffered in a slate fall. I > was born in that year and went to school with several of the kids that > had lost their father in that terrible accident. > > Robert Crabtree > >