Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1914 — Oil Floods a Coal Mine. [ARTICLE]

Oil Floods a Coal Mine.

Washington, Pa.—A fall of slate broke three eight-inch crude oil mains near here and flooded the colliery of the Guck Coal Company. There were 200 miners below, and they had a thrilling escape from a lake of oil, and finally reached safety through an old air shaft after the oil had almost sobmerged some of than.