Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1892 — TWELVE MEN DROWNED. [ARTICLE]

TWELVE MEN DROWNED.

Miners In a Pennsylvania Colliery Overtaken by Pent-Up Water. A horrible accident occurred ait th« Lytle colliery, near Minersville, Pa, Ten or twelve men are said to have lost their lives by the flooding cf the mins with an immense body of water that burst through the old workings. The colliery officers admit that eight men are dead, among them Miners Delbin, Bell, and Buggy. The works-are located on Primrose Mountain, tapping the,great Wolf Creek colliery, which has -lain idle for some years, '©wing to the large accumulation of wates. Two years age the operators began to reopen the tract ■by putting in new slopes. Gangways •are being pushed ‘out from these -Slopes •on all sides of the ®ew workings. The ■old water lies there, 'and it was the 'bursting through -of ®ne-or more of these deposits without warning'that caught the miners while at work. Jt is not known •exactly how many men were drowned, but besides the American miners there were a large number of Italian and Hungarian laborers-at work inside, and it is thought at least -six of them are -also drowned.