Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1890 — Miners Mangled and Burned. [ARTICLE]

Miners Mangled and Burned.

Wilkesbarre (Pa.) dispatch: A cavein occurred in the Nottingham shaft of the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Coal , Company in No. 5 plane, which drove the accumulated gas into the gangway where ten men were at work with naked lamps. An explosion soon followed, which resulted in the death of the following: JOHN CROSSING. JOHN HUMPHREYS. EDWARD MORRIS. POWELL SCHULTZ. DAVID J. WILLIAMS. JOHN WILLIAMS. The miners injured whose names could >e learned are: John Dennis, cut and bruised. Thomas Duke, badly bruised. James Dunstan, badly bruised. David Fox, burned, and bruised. Joseph Jones, fatally. PetebLynn. bruised and cut. John Thomas, badly bruised and cut. '