Area History:Mine Inspector's Report Year Ending Dec 31, 1869 Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Shirley E. Ryan sryan@enter.net USGENWEB NOTICE: Printing this file by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. ______________________________________________________________________ MINE INSPECTOR'S REPORT FOR 1870 FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECMEBER 31, 1869 P.F. M'ANDREW, CLERK (Noteby transcriber: The text indicates the word "do" which means ditto - in these cases I have spelled out the entire line rather than show "do") Columns are: Date - 1869 NAMES OF PERSONS NAME OF COLLIERIE MANNER KILLED WHERE KILLED AND CAUSE OF DEATH Page 17: May 7 JOHN GLINN Plant Bridge Fall or coal in the mines May 24 JOHN MALEY Glen Carbon Slope Log rolling on his head June 15 ELLIS JOHNSON Wadesville Shaft Fall of 102 feet in the shaft June 16 JOHN THOMAS Plank Bridge Fall of coal in the mines June 16 JAMES BURKE Furnace Mines Fall of coal in the gangway June 16 DAVID JONES Glen Carbon Fell in the screens at breaker June 25 THOMAS JOHNSON Plant Bridge Coal rolling on him in mines July 2 JOHN CLARK Glen Carbon Fall of coal in the mines July 2 JOHN BROWN Otto White Ash Fall of coal in the mines July 3 THOMAS RUSSEL Hill & Harris's Fall of coal in the mines July 2 GEORGE DUTCHELL Glen Carbon Fall of coal-lost a leg-died 26th July 10 WM CLARK Eagle Hill Fell 100 feet down the shaft July 10 JOHN DELANEY Eagle Hill Fell 100 feet down the shaft July 12 GEORGE GALLAHER East Mt. Laffey Fall of coal in the mines July 16 WM. ULRICK, SR. Near Ashland Explosion of powder in mines July 16 WM. ULRICK, JR. Near Ashland Explosion of powder in mines July 22 NICHOLAS HARRIS Focht's Mines Rupture in pushing wagons July 24 WILLIAM LONG Fowler's Slope Crushed by a fall of coal July 26 PETER CONAHAN Whitestone & Wood's Crushed in the pump bot pit July 27 JOHN M'NULTY Silver Brook Fell off cage in shaft July 30 DANIEL WOODHALL M'Neal's Slope Fall of coal in the mines July 30 PATRICK MURPHY Glenville Eagle Hill Premature explosion of powder Aug 6 JAMES KEATTING Wadlinger's Expl'n of gas and powder in mines Aug 13 JAMES CONNER Hickory Colliery Fell 50 feet from breaker window Aug 13 JACOB SCHWARTZ Cameron Fall of rocks in the mines Aug 16 JOHN E. WOOD Hill & Harris's Caught in belts and crushed Aug 17 WILLIAM WALTERS Brookside Caught in belts and crushed Aug 21 MICHAEL DUGGAN Glen Carbon Fell in slope by the rope breaking Aug 24 THOS. BRADBERRY Whitstone & Wood's Premature explosion of powder Sept 1 DAVID DAVIS Union Colliery Fall of coal in the mines Sept 7 PATRICK COYNE Ostirman's Colliery Fell in counter schute 150 @ 85 deg. dip Sept 8 WM. KAVANAGH Ostirman's Colliery Fell off cage in slope by slipping Sept 10 MAT'W DONOHOE Bethlehem Colliery Fall of coal while resting Sept 20 RICHARD BARRETT Shenandoah Colliery Fell of coal in the mines Sept 20 ROBERT FINLEY Swatara Colliery Fell into rollers at breaker Sept 24 JOS. DETTYONGE Eagle Colliery Fall of coal in the mines Sept 30 PHILIP TULLIS Chuyler Colliery Slow blast in the mines Oct 2 PHILIP VOULES Chuyler Colliery Premature discharge of blast Oct 15 JAMES O'BRIEN Silliman's Colliery Piece coal from blast 42 yds in gangway Oct 20 WM. WILLIAMS Glen Carbon Colliery Fall of coal in the mines Oct 24 FRANK WATERS Greenwood Colliery Explosion of powder-died on 29th Oct 25 JAMES COURTNEY East Mahanoy Colliery Fall of coal in the mines Oct 28 THOMAS LEWIS Pine Knot Colliery Crushed by the cage in the slope Oct 30 ROBERT RECH Donaldson Colliery Crushed between drift wagons Oct 30 HENRY OKELEY Maple Dale Colliery Fall of top slate in mines Nov 10 SAML. WESTWOOD St. Clair Colliery Skull crushed by the elevator Nov 18 M. O'BRIEN Taylorville Colliery Boiler house falling on him Nov 22 JAS. M'DONALD Lost Creek Colliery Crushed between schute and wagons Nov 22 JOS. M'DONALD Shenandoah Colliery Run over by wagons in mines Dec 1 WM. O'NEIL Pine Knot Colliery Explosion of powder in mines Dec 11 ROBERT PATERECK Maple Dale Colliery Run over by wagons in mines Dec 13 WM.WILLIAMS Mine Hill Gap Colliery Explosion of gas in mines Dec 14 JOHN BIRD Gilberton Colliery Fell in slope, log overbalance cage Dec 14 JOHN FELLOWS Gilberton Colliery Fell in slope, log overbalance cage a comrade Note by Mine Inspector at bottom of page: 56 persons killed Of the above named persons that were killed, 22 were killed by falls of coal; 1 was killed by fall of rocks; 13 were killed by falls in slopes shafts and crushed in them; 4 were killed by falls in rollers and caught in screens; 2 were killed by explosions of gas in the mines; 9 were killed by explosions of powder in the mines; 5 were killed by various sorts of accitents; total kiled 56, leaving 30 widows, average number of orphans, about 150.