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The Fayette Tribune is a newspaper serving Oak Hill, West Virginia, and surrounding Fayette County.[1] Published Monday and Thursday, it has a circulation of 1,093 and is owned by Community Newspaper Holdings.[2]

History

In 1915, Charles A. Goddard acquired the Fayette Tribune and Free Press,[3] a name simplified to the Fayette Tribune in 1924.[4] In 1930 the Tribune was sold to the Woodyard brothers, who also purchased the Fayette Democrat.[3]

The Fayette Tribune was the first newspaper to call attention to the Hawk's Nest Tunnel disaster,[5] a large scale incident of occupational silicosis, considered to be one of the worst industrial tragedies in the history of the United States.[6] Reporting in February 1931 the paper broke the story:

"Their [sic] is a great deal of comment regarding the unusually large number of deaths among the colored laborers in the tunnel works. The deaths totaled about 37 in the past two weeks."[5]

The mining continued, however, resulting in an estimated 476 deaths before construction halted.[7]

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