Fifty-six miners died in the Christopher Coal Number 3 Mine explosion in Osage, West Virginia, at 2:25 PM on May 12, 1942: Darrell Adams, Roy Batton, Allen W. Baughman, Tony Belec, Thomas D. Brinegar, Sr, William J. Cannon, John B. Cook, Berman Cooker, Thomas Cordwell, Robert J. Covert, Alphonso Crook, Arthur Cunningham, Homer Cunningham, Edward Delaney, Douglas Donaldson, Attilio Dorinzi, George Fagula, James Foley, Albert Frazier, John Friel, John Gaspar, James Gatian, Earl Henderson, Austin James, Edward Jefferson, Allen Jack Jones, Basil Reed Lafferty, Harold Little, Edson McClain, John McGee, John McGee, Jr., Everett Marshall, Sam May, Homer Mayfield, Kermit Mayfield, Edward McCardle, Floyd Matheny, John W. Mitchell, Stuart Mills, Frederick Mongold, Harry Moody, A.P. Morris, Daniel Morris, Harlan Murphy, Harold Murphy, William Newhouse, Nick Nimcheck, Frank Powley, John Powley, Ronald Powley, William Shinko, Bruce Stone, Hoye Thompson, Russell Wade Turner, Delford Whetzel, and Dennis Wolfe.