Report of the Bureau of Mines of the Department of Internal Affairs of Pennsylvania . T^lccro of X>cuny (U)L s,n, i,/m\t/jNt£j^Q£ Colly to -f/ood rh^ ?f^^e/, /f^ h/or/orLgs. Jf^/, ^ No. 10. BIXTH ANTHRACITE DISTRICT. 295 degrees, wliich, with the tunnel connectinj^ the Skidinore with theBuck Mountain bed, were the only two openings connecting withilie Buck Mountain gangways. On the 11th of October, 1898, I visited Lawrence colliery, and incompany with Mr. Miller, superintendent, and Fire Boss ^VilliamMinahan, made a thorough examination of the district


Report of the Bureau of Mines of the Department of Internal Affairs of Pennsylvania . T^lccro of X>cuny (U)L s,n, i,/m\t/jNt£j^Q£ Colly to -f/ood rh^ ?f^^e/, /f^ h/or/orLgs. Jf^/, ^ No. 10. BIXTH ANTHRACITE DISTRICT. 295 degrees, wliich, with the tunnel connectinj^ the Skidinore with theBuck Mountain bed, were the only two openings connecting withilie Buck Mountain gangways. On the 11th of October, 1898, I visited Lawrence colliery, and incompany with Mr. Miller, superintendent, and Fire Boss ^VilliamMinahan, made a thorough examination of the district of the collierywhere the concussions had occurred (which is known as the fourthleft, east and west gangways), for the purpose of ascertaining, asfar as possible, tlie cause of the concussions. We traveled throughihe tunnel to face of \\\st Buck Mountain gangway in order to findout whether or not the force of the concussion had in any way affectedIhis opening, which has been stopped for over a year. I found thatthe fungi had been shaken from the timbers, showing that the windwave caused by the concussion had traveled a short distance alongthis opening; the gangway timbers were otherwise in fair condition,with the ex


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