All Hope Lost

Headlines in different editions of the New York Daily News announce separate outcomes for the miners trapped in a West Virginia coal mine, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2006. Early Wednesday it was erroneously reported in Tallmansville, W. Va. that 12 miners had been found alive, only to be corrected three hours later that just one miner had survived Monday's explosion.

Family members react to the news of only one survivor of the 13 trapped miners, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2006 in Tallmansville, W.Va. The family members were told hours before that only one of the 13 miners had died, and then were told the grim news early Wednesday morning that the others had died.

Unidentified family members leave Sago Baptist Church early Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2006 in Tallmansville, W. Va. after learning that 12 of the 13 coal miners who were initially thought to have survived an explosion in a coal mine have died.

Minie2 The loading dock of St. Joseph's Hospital in Buckhannon, W.Va., being prepared to receive surviving coal miners, is shown early Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2006. Only one miner, identified by mining officials as 27-year-old Randal McCloy, was rescued late Tuesday from a mine explosion that trapped 13 miners on Monday. The equipment was removed after the fate of the miners was learned.

Unidentified family members leave Sago Baptist Church early Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2006, in Tallmansville, W. Va. after learning that 12 of the 13 coal miners who were initially thought to have survived an explosion in a coal mine have died.

Unidentified family members leave Sago Baptist Church early Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2006 in Tallmansville, W. Va. after learning that 12 of the 13 coal miners who were initially thought to have survived an explosion in a coal mine have died.

Daniele Bennett gets emotional while speaking to the media after hearing that her father was one of the coal miners that was killed in the Sago Mine on January 4, 2006 in Tallmansville.

West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin pauses after announcing early Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2006, that 12 of the 13 coal miners who were initially thought to have survived an explosion in a coal mine have died in Tallmansville, W.Va.

Steven Scott of the Buckannon, W.Va., Donut Shop, changes a sign early Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2006, to reflect the one miner out of thirteen who survived 41 hours underground after being trapped by a Monday morning mine explosion at Sago Mine in Tallmansville, W.Va.