The town of Wendel contains two rows of approximately twenty double  family houses, each is a two-story wood-frame building with a gable roof and concrete-block foundations.  The mine superintendent's house is a large two-and-a-half-story wood-frame single family dwelling with clapboard siding, a gable roof, double brick  chimneys, and a concrete-block foundation.  Managers' row contains five single-family houses; each is a two-and-a-half-story, L-shaped wood-frame building with double gable roofs and concrete-block foundations.

A short distance south of Wendel is Edna No. 2.  It is a slightly smaller coal patch town than Wendel and contains two double rows and one single row of approximately forty double family houses;  each is a two-story wood-frame double house with a gable roof covered with slate or asphalt, and single or double brick chimneys.  They rest on clay tile foundations.

The Coal Company houses are now all privately owned and have been altered with new siding and porch enclosures.

The old company store building recently housed the Wendel-Herminie Athletic Association, but now ca.1994, the building appears to be vacant.

However, by ca.1910 the Pittsburgh & Baltimore Coal Company was in financial distress and a receiver had taken over its properties.  The receiver continued to operate the mines under the name of the Pittsburgh & Baltimore Coal Company.

The Coal Miners Strike of 1910:
In 1910 the miners at the Edna No. 1 and Edna No. 2 Mines became a part of the regions coal miners strike, which lasted over one year. The Pittsburgh & Baltimore Coal Company evicted the coal miners and their families from the company owned houses using the coal company's Coal & Iron Police and  kept its mines running by importing scab strikebreakers, as miners and mine workers, from down south and scabs from eastern Europe.  About ninty of the scabs were employed at Edna No. 2 Mine during the Miners strike.  The scab miners at Edna No 2 Mine produced nearly 142,000 tons of coal in ca.1910.  The coal miners were defeated in their strike by the coal companies and the brutality of the Coal & Iron Police and the county sheriff's deputies , which were being paid by the coal companies, in ca.1911.

After the coal companies defeated the miners strike, production rose and continued to increase throughout the 1910's.  In 1913 Edna No. 2 Mine produced 326,000 tons of coal.  The company used ten electirc-powered mining machines for extracting the coal  and five electric locomotives for hauling the coal out of the mine.  During World War I the Hillman Coal & Coke interests of Pittsburgh acquired the Pittsburgh & Baltimore Coal Company.  The coal mines at Edna No. 1 & Edna No. 2 were operated by The United Coal Corporation, a Hillman Coal & Coke Company subsidary.  J. W. Campbell and C. M. Snyder served as mine superintendents at Edna No. 2 Mine during the 1920's.  Throughout this time Edna No. 2 Mine remained the larger coal producer of the two Edna Mines.  Annual production from 1923 through 1930 ranged from 210,000 tons to more than 290,000 tons of coal.

In the late 1930's Hillman Coal & Coke Company leased both Edna Mines to the Tomajko interests and Edna No. 2 Mine was soon abandoned.

(History and description of the Edna No. 2 Mine, with additional data and pictures adapted from "Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania: An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial Sites, 1994,"  America's Industrial Heitage Project, National Park Service, Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record, U.S. Department of the Interior, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.)

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