Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1907 — FIRE IN A MINE DEADLY [ARTICLE]

FIRE IN A MINE DEADLY

Drives Black Damp Into a Nearbp Workings, and Six Men Are Overcome, Too Fatally. Connellsville, Pa., Jan. 11. The Are caused by an explosion of gas in the Painter mines of the H. C. Frick Coke company at McClure station has spread to nearby shafts and is causing serious damage. Four men were carried out of the Mill mine of the United States Sheet and Tin Plate company and two out of the Home pit of Stauffer & Murray, near Scottdale. All were overcome by black damp driven Into the mines by the McClure fire. The men overcome in the Mill mine are: Mine Foreman Henry Suttler, Edward Eckman, John Farley and William Jones. Their condition is serious. John Visconti and Frank Warraman, foreigners, carried out of the Home shaft, will die. The blaze was started by an explosion of gasoline used in a pump.