Service Is Held for Coal Miner Killed in Fire
From Times Wire Reports
Two coal trucks covered in black ribbons and wreaths led the funeral procession for Don I. “Rizzle” Bragg, one of two coal miners killed in an underground fire this month.
The service was held at the Man High School field house because no other building in town could hold the several hundred mourners.
Bragg, 33, and Ellery “Elvis” Hatfield, 47, died after a Jan. 19 blaze in a Massey Energy mine. Hatfield was buried Friday.
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