Two miners dead after wall collapse in Ohio County

Armstrong Coal Company tells 14 News that the two miners trapped in Ohio County have died. Darrel Winstead, 47, of Madisonville and Samuel Lindsey, 23, of Mortons Gap, died at the Armstrong Coal Company’s Equality Boot Mine in Centertown. Preliminary reports show a rock fall started around 6:30 Friday morning after a crew drove a truck near a high wall. Tons of rock fell from that high wall, injuring several miners on the site.