Miners are Remembered Thursday on Anniversary of Disaster

Thursday marked 14 years since a blast trapped 13 miners deep in the Sago Mine in Upshur County. Two days after the explosion, a miscommunication announced the miners were found alive, but when the rescuers made it to the men, they found 12 had died. A report by the State Office of Miners Health Safety and Training blamed the explosion on a lightning strike. On Thursday, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, expressed her sympathies on Twitter.