People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1894 — A MINE DISASTER. [ARTICLE]

A MINE DISASTER.

Five Killed and Much Damage Done by a Boiler Explosion. Shamokin, Pa., Oct. 13. —Five men were killed, two were fatally injured and several others painfully burned by a disastrous boiler explosion at the Henry Clay collierj’ at Thursday. The entire steam-supplying plant of the mine, consisting of thirtysix boilers, was totally demolished, and in addition to the monetary loss, which will aggregate $30,000, the Henry Clay, Big Mountain, Sterling and Peerless collieries will be unable to resume operations tor at least a month. The explosion is the worst of its kind that has ever occurred in this region, and its cause is a mystery.