Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1889 — TEN MEN INSTANTLY KILLED. [ARTICLE]

TEN MEN INSTANTLY KILLED.

ACar Valla Down a Shaft and Strikes au Ascending Cage Filled With Miners. At Kaska William colliery, nearMiddleport, Pa., Thursday evening, the cage containing ten miners was ascending the shaft and had reached a height of about sixteen feet from the bottom when an emptv car was pushed over the top Of the shaft by two Hungarian laborers. The car struck the ascending cage with awful momentum, shattering it tosplintere a*d instantly killing every one of its occupants. The cage with the ten victims was hurled into the “sump,” a hole at the bottom of the shaft, where the water from the workings accumulates, and the mangled bodies were not recovered for Borne time. The mine is operated by tbe Alliance Coal Company. It Is aft old working mine, and the shaft is 500 leet deep. The colliery efnploys about 500 hands, and is also known as “Big Vein.” There is intense indignation over the employment of stnpid Hungarians in a position of such responsibility as at the month of the shaft. There is thirtv-flve feet of water in the “sump,” and the work of recovering the bodies was very difficult