Miners left farewell notes assuring their loved ones they didn't suffer

Friday, January 6, 2006

TALLMANSVILLE, W.Va. -- Some of the 12 coal miners who died in the Sago Mine disaster left farewell notes assuring their loved ones that their final hours trapped underground were not spent in agony, a relative said Thursday.

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