Research Topic

Accidents

Although frequently occurring, accidents tied to labor were often only documented briefly, if at all, in newspapers and scattered records. These brief accounts offer some of the only available documentation of the risks faced by working-class families in Jefferson County, West Virginia.

This topic appears in 150 indexed records between 1817 and 1965.
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1817 Earliest Record
1965 Latest Record
Bakerton Strongest Location
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Rouzee, killed by train.

Killed On Railroad Track. Special to The Washington Post. Charleston, W. Va., June 6.— Walter W. Rouzee, an employee in the cooperage shop of the Washington Building Lime Company, at Bakerton, was killed Thursday evening at […]
June 7, 1903
May 22, 2020
May 22, 2020

J. L. Johnson, fatal injuries at ore bank.

John L. Johnson, a veteran of the civil war, having served in the Potomac Home Brigade, sustained fatal injuries by a bank caving on him at the West Virginia ore bank, three miles west of Harper’s […]
January 17, 1902
January 6, 2026
January 6, 2026

Burgan, Canal Supervisor, Escapes Death

W. J. Burgan, assistant supervisor of the lower division of the C. & O. Canal, at Dam No. 4, narrowly escaped being crushed to death by a sack of cement, weighing 200 pounds, falling. He was […]
January 15, 1902
May 22, 2020
May 22, 2020

A Narrow Escape, Knott, Hoffmaster.

Mrs. Samuel Knott and Mrs. James Hoffmaster, of the vicinity of Moler’s Cross Roads, had a very narrow escape from death or serious injury last Saturday afternoon. They were driving to town in a stick wagon, […]
October 24, 1901
May 22, 2020
May 22, 2020

Sad Drowning Accident.

Last Saturday afternoon Edward Cox and Charles Howard, two young men from Kearneysville, aged 20 and 17 yeas, respectively, were drowned in the Potomac river near the residence of James W. Engle, at Rattling Springs. The […]
February 21, 1901
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Time Period Concentration

This topic appears most frequently during the following decades.

1890s 34 records
1910s 30 records
1900s 24 records
1930s 14 records
1830s 9 records
1880s 9 records

Frequently Associated Families

These surnames most commonly appear alongside the topic "Accidents" across historical collections.

Flanagan
13 records
Welsh
12 records
Moler
6 records
Caton
6 records
Hoffman
5 records
Houser
5 records
Marshall
5 records
Myers
5 records
Smith
4 records
Knott
4 records
Banks
4 records
Baker
3 records
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