Records of the Work Projects Administration, 1922 - 1944. Pictorial Report, ca. 1935 - ca. 1943. Ernie Pyle Inspecting North End of the Barrier Completed by Works Project Administration (WPA) Workers at the Plummer Hill Spur of the New Straitsville Mine Fire.

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Records of the Work Projects Administration, 1922 - 1944. Pictorial Report, ca. 1935 - ca. 1943. Ernie Pyle Inspecting North End of the Barrier Completed by Works Project Administration (WPA) Workers at the Plummer Hill Spur of the New Straitsville Mine Fire.

1935-1943

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Original Caption: Ernie Pyle, famous globe-trotting Scripps-Howard columnist, inspecting north end of the barrier completed by WPA workers at the Plummer Hill spur of the New Straitsville Mine fire. The fire is now burning against this barrier, and is being turned back. The barrier consists of clay and the huge 640-foot tunnel cut through the coal here was made air-tight by washing liquid mud down through holes from above. In the picture, left to right: LC Gibson, Director of the WPA District #3; James R. Cavanaugh, Chief Engineer of the Project; Mr. Pyle and Adam J. Laverty, Project Superintendent.

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Pyle, Ernie, 1900-1945

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Ernest "Ernie" Taylor Pyle (August 3, 1900 – April 18, 1945) was a Pulitzer Prize—winning American journalist and war correspondent who is best known for his stories about ordinary American soldiers during World War II. Pyle is also notable for the columns he wrote as a roving human-interest reporter from 1935 through 1941 for the Scripps-Howard newspaper syndicate that earned him wide acclaim for his simple accounts of ordinary people across North America. When the United States entered World W...