Allegany County MD Archives Obituaries.....Dennia NOLAN, 1907
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"The Cumberland Times" Cumberland, Maryland 20 Sep 1907: 
"Crushed Under Fall of Coal-Dennis Nolan Meets With a Fatal Accident
-CAUSE OF FALL A MYSTERY-
Place of Working Considered Perfectly Safe-Bureau of the Evening Times. Lonaconing, 
Md., Sept. 20. The life was crushed out of Dennis Nolan, and his father, brother and 
cousin escaped death by a hand's breadth in Ocean No. 1 mine yesterday afternoon. 
The four Nolans-experienced miners all-were working in a cross cut, pillaring. Dennis 
and his brother Martin were working side by side, their father and cousin, Daniel 
Nolan, of Lonaconing, were only a few steps away, when as quickly as a flash of 
lightening the roof and the breast came away, burying Dennis under at least two tons 
of coals and rock. How his brother Martin escaped, no one knows, nor can he, himself, 
explain it. Dennis was killed instantly, and no on can tell how it happened, for the 
roof was thoroughly well propped and the miners say that such an accident has never 
happened before within their experience. The roof and breast coal came away together. 
Dennis Nolan was born in Lonaconing 28 years ago, and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. 
Michael Nolan. The family moved from Lonaconing to Midland about four years ago. The 
oldest son of the family is Father Joseph Nolan, of Frostburg. Deceased is survived 
by his parents and two brothers and five sisters: Mrs. Michael Burns, Mrs. ?McDermott, 
Annie, Ellen and Loretta Nolan, all of Midland. Miss Annie is a school teacher and 
Ellen and Loretta are mere children. The unfortunate young man was a member in good 
standing of the temperance society attached to St. Joseph's Church, and was also a 
member of the A.O.H. "Denny", as he was called by his friends, was an expert coal 
miner, as are the three men who worked with him, and they left nothing undone to make 
their place perfectly secure and they firmly believe that an accident was impossible 
in that place. The unexpected happened, however, and Dennis Nolan, one of the soberest, 
industrious and respected young men of Midland was sent into eternal presence of his 
father...(unreadable)...Daniel Nolan, of Lonaconing: "...worked in a place that 
looked...safe as that did when I went...this morning. It was my first day in that 
place, and I can't understand how that coal came away." Mr. Nolan's body was brought 
home by his three "buttys" and a heartbreaking sight it was, the gray-haired father 
bringing home his dead boy, and the brother going ahead to "break the news" to the poor 
mother. If Daniel and Michael Nolan had not stepped out of the "breast" they, 
undoubtedly, would have been killed also."


"The Cumberland Times" Cumberland, Maryland 20 Sep 1907: 
"The Funeral Of Dennis Nolan-Dennis Nolan, who was killed in Ocean Mine yesterday, will 
be buried from St. Joseph's Church, Midland, at 9:30 O'clock tomorrow morning. Interment 
in St. Mary's Catholic cemetery, Lonaconing."       




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