To all the families who loved so deeply the miners we ve lost; to all who called them friends, worked alongside them in the mines, or knew them as neighbors, in Montcoal and Naoma, or Whitesville, in the Coal River Valley and across West Virginia

　　所有的遇難礦工的家屬、朋友、工友、鄰居們，

　　Let me begin by saying that we have been mourning with you throughout these difficult days. Our hearts have been aching with you. We keep our thoughts with the survivors who are recovering and resting at the hospital and at the homes. We're thankful for the rescue teams. But our hearts ache alongside you.

　　首先我想告訴大家，這段日子我們一直和你們一樣為我們失去的礦工哀悼，我們的心情和你們一樣悲痛，我們時刻牽掛著在醫院接受治療或在家得以恢復的幸存者。我們同樣感激救援人員的工作。我們的心同你們一樣難過。

　　We re here to memorialize 29 Americans: Carl Acord. Jason Atkins. Christopher Bell. Gregory Steven Brock. Kenneth Allan Chapman. Robert Clark. Charles Timothy Davis. Cory Davis. Michael Lee Elswick. William I. Griffith. Steven Harrah. Edward Dean Jones. Richard K. Lane. William Roosevelt Lynch. Nicholas Darrell McCroskey. Joe Marcum. Ronald Lee Maynor. James E. Mooney. Adam Keith Morgan. Rex L. Mullins. Joshua S. Napper. Howard D. Payne. Dillard Earl Persinger. Joel R. Price. Deward Scott. Gary Quarles. Grover Dale Skeens. Benny Willingham. And Ricky Workman.

　　我們在這里，懷念29位美國人:卡爾·阿克德、杰森·阿金斯、克里斯多佛·貝爾、格利高里·史蒂夫·布洛克、肯尼斯·艾倫·查普曼、羅伯特·克拉克、查爾斯·蒂莫西·戴維斯、克里·戴維斯、邁克爾·李·埃爾斯維克、威廉·I.格里菲斯、史蒂芬·哈拉、愛德華·迪恩·瓊斯、理查德·K.雷恩、威廉姆·羅斯威爾特·林奇、尼古拉斯·達利爾·麥考斯基、喬·馬克姆、羅納德·李·梅爾、詹姆斯·E.姆尼、亞當·基斯·摩根、雷克斯·L.姆林斯、喬什·S.納皮爾、霍華德·D.佩恩、迪拉德·厄爾·波辛格、喬爾·R.普萊斯、迪華德·斯科特、加里·考拉斯、格羅佛·戴爾·斯金斯、本尼·威靈漢姆以及里奇·沃克曼。