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In a scene played out time and again in this corner of America, people gathered in a muddy, fog-shrouded hollow this week, hoping their husbands and fathers, sons and brothers had not been made to pay that debt. Early Wednesday, their worst fears were realized.

After an initial report that 12 miners were found alive, family members were devastated to learn that there was only one survivor. A hospital said the man, identified by mining officials as year-old Randal McCloy, was in critical condition.

At The Donut Shop in the county seat of Buckhannon, the sign outside read: Despite its long mining history, accidents of this magnitude are not something residents of Upshur County have much experience with.

Nineteen bodies remain entombed in the mountain. Demand for workers With the rising prices of oil and natural gas, Appalachian coal has been enjoying a mini-boom in recent years. Across the region, new mines have been opened and old mines have been reopened, but in Upshur County the state said there was one fewer mine in than the year before. Yet, as the number of mines dropped, the number of coal jobs increased.

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McGee, whose twin brother, Tim, is also a miner, said the notion of death is always there, but the miners try not to talk about it. Sitting on a cold metal chair beneath a funeral home tent, a red-eyed Donald Marsh had kept an all-night vigil across the railroad tracks from the mine, waiting for word of his brother, Jim Bennett, and the other trapped miners.

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