 his private home was once the Union Labor Hospital. It provided health care for union miners and their families from 1904 to 1910. Matron Maggie Leja and nurses Sarah Hoffmire Sullivan, Mima Hilton, and Nora Moffit worked here, trying each day to reduce the hefty toll that mining took on workers' lives. Coal miners were injured, maimed, or killed by explosions, poisonous gas, falling rock, suffocation, fires, and underground cave-ins. At their worst, such accidents left women widowed, forced to seek a livelihood to support themselves and their children. |
