Schuylkill County PA Archives Obituaries.....Townsend, George  1899
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The Fulton County news. (McConnellsburg, Pa.): November 30, 1899
Fell Over a Thousand Feet.
Mahanoy City, Schuylkill County, Pa. - George Townsend, aged twenty-one years,
employed at the Gilberton colliery, near here, fell down the mine water shaft, a
distance of 1,080 feet, and was instantly killed. This is the greatest fall ever
chronicled in similar mining fatalities in the southern anthracite coal fields.

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