Reports of the Inspectors of Mines of the anthracite coal regions of Pennsylvania for the year .. . eased, with anotherman, was engaged robbing pillais, and while their car was being shiftedby the driver, it ran down a grade and got off the track. Deceaseds partnerand others were called to put it on the track. While thus engaged, a largepiece of clod fell from the top, a distance of about thirty feet, killing Camp-bell instantly, while the other men had a narrow escape and were only savedby the car being struck first. This is a peculiar accident, as the counter gangway, where it occurred,had b
Reports of the Inspectors of Mines of the anthracite coal regions of Pennsylvania for the year .. . eased, with anotherman, was engaged robbing pillais, and while their car was being shiftedby the driver, it ran down a grade and got off the track. Deceaseds partnerand others were called to put it on the track. While thus engaged, a largepiece of clod fell from the top, a distance of about thirty feet, killing Camp-bell instantly, while the other men had a narrow escape and were only savedby the car being struck first. This is a peculiar accident, as the counter gangway, where it occurred,had been driven for several years across old breasts that had been workedout for nearly twenty years, the roof of which was carefully examined andconsidered safe all through. A good proof of this was that nothing everfell on this road during the years it had been in use. When I examined the place the following day, everything was as still asusual, yet I thought that this fall was a forerunner of somethiog more inquired of the mine foreman, Griffiths, who is a very competent man, if SKKTCII. L G & NPI. AX Tor Woi-kiny X^*J ShaCI oriHM^ laai) -s/;///.io()iVri
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