Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1887 — "WEEKLY BUDGET. [ARTICLE]

"WEEKLY BUDGET.

THE EASTERN STATES. A Wii.kesbabbk (Pa.) dispatch says: Great excitement prevailed at N anti coke Thursday morning when the news of an accident at No. 4 slope of the Susquehanna Coal Company reached the people living in houses adjacent to the scene of the disaster. The accident was caused by an explosion of gas. At 8 o’clock Wednesday night a gang of men who were engaged in driving a gangway in the slope entered the mine, and the next morning seven—three of them dead—were brought out by their comrades. The killed are: John McMadaman, miner, aged 40 years, leaves a widow and three small children; James Kelley, miner, aged 24 years, single; Lotsey Vmoskia, laborer, aged 28 years, single. The injured are: Joseph Lesseps, aged 18 years, a driver; Barney Lezkoski, aged 17 years, a driver; John Lezkoski, aged 19 years, a door-tender. Joseph Lesseps has since died, and the others are unconscious and liable to die at any moment. Matthew Gubne died from hydrophobia at Haverstraw, N. Y.