Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1908 — DEATH IN THE COALPIT [ARTICLE]

DEATH IN THE COALPIT

Seven Men Lose Their Lives by Explosions While Fighting Fire. Seven mineworkers were killed and more than a dozen injured by explosions in the Mount Lookout colliery of the Temple Coal and Iron company at* Wyoming, Pa. The dead are: Pascal Smith, of Wyomingffi Frank

Smith, of Exeter; Michael McNulty, of Arch «1d; Oscar Smallcomb, of West Pittston; George Metcalf, of Exeter; Lewis Pataskay, of Wyoming; Joseph Yancanden, of Wyoming. The injured —John Welsh, William Cos state, Henry Learch, John Pataskay. Charles Babcock, all living in the neighborhood of the colliery. . Five others were burned severely, but their names could not be obtained. The explcr'on occurred six hundred feet underground, aid eighteen hundred feet from the shaft up wKIcS the miners make their exit John Kosmttb, a miner, left a small “gas feeder" burn In the extreme end of a gangway all of the night which set fire to the timbers and the coal. When the fireboss started into the mine to make his rounds he discovered the fire. He nt once reported it and It was in the attempt to subdue the flames that the explosions occurred.