Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1898 — A FRIGHTFUL FALL. [ARTICLE]

A FRIGHTFUL FALL.

Three Men Thrown to the Bottom of n Mine Shaft tn Pennsylvania a Ulutnnce of 300 Feet. Wllkesbarre, Pa., May 6. —The Halstead mine of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western company, at Duryea. was the scene of an accident Thursday evening which cost three men their lives. The names of the victims are: John Monohan, Stephen Jenkins and John Titus. The three men were engaged in repairing the lining of the shaft, which had been damaged by the cave-in last week. Some heavy timbers were being lowered into the shaft when the rope which was attached to them slipped off, and the timbers struck the platform upon which the three workmen were standing w'ith groat force, demolishing it and precipitating the men to the bottom of the shaft, a distance of 300 feet.