Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1886 — MINE DISASTER. [ARTICLE]

MINE DISASTER.

Cave-in in a Pennsylvania Colliery That May Have Cost Several JLlves. [Scranton (Pa.) dispatch.! The Marvine Shaft Colliery of the Delaware <fc Hudson Canal Company was the scene of an extensive cave-in this morning, by which it is feared a number of men have lost their lives, how many it is impossible to say, the suppositions varying from six to nine. There seems to be but little question of the death of one of them, an elderly man named John Shafer. A number of men were cut and bruised by falling rock and coal in making their escape up the slope. Following are the injured: Henry Shafer, shoulder bruised and three ribs broken; Thomas Healy, laborer, slightly hurt; Joseph Ready, driver, toes smashed; George Mason, miner, hand badly cut; Peter Kelly, timber boss, was struck on the back of the head and on the shoulder by a falling rock. Kelly passed John Shafer, an elderly man, at the foot of the slope. So far as is known, the names or the missing men, in addition to are as follows: ' John Carden, laborer, 30 years of age, married; John Young, miner, 55 years; married and has three children; Patrick McNulty, miner, married, has seven children; Cormac Maguire, miner, 55 years old, married, has two children; Patrick Kavanaugh, miner, aged 45 years, married, has six children; Patrick Murphy, laborer, 25 years, single; Patrick Harrison, laborer, 35 years old„ single. Sweets for the Sweet. A BROKEN-HEARTED widow, who rdher husband, dyed her lap-dog black while waiting for- the latest style in mourning dress to be announced. < Miss E. R. SKIDMORE, of Washington, is credited with having made SI,OOO out of her correspondence in connection with the President’s wedding. She is a credit to the profession. _ A CASE of domestic scandal was under discussion at a tea-table. “Well. let us think the best of her we can,” said an elderly spinster. “Yes," said another, “and say the worst.”