Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Co. Explosion
May 17, 1890
ANOTHER MINE HORROR.
Two Men Killed by an Explosion and the Bodies
Burned.
Wilkesbarre, Pa., May 19.--An explosion of
fire damp occurred about 7:30 o’clock Saturday
evening at the Empire colliery of the Lehigh and
Wilkesbarre Coal company, near this city. So far
as can be learned only two men,
William Thomas
and his helper, Robert
Craig, were in that portion of the
colliery doing repair work, and it is supposed
that they fired the gas. Both were killed, and
up to this writing neither of the bodies have
been recovered. The explosion was a very violent
one. It shook the whole mine and set fire to the
timber. At 10 o’clock last night the fire was
raging fiercely.
The Indiana Gazette, Indiana, PA 22 May
1890
An explosion of fire-damp in the Empire
collery of the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Coal
Company, near Wilkesbarre, Pa., on the 17th
killed William Thomas
and Robert Craig,
miners.
The Ohio Democrat, New Philadelphia, OH 22
May 1890
Transcribed by Audrey. Thank you,
Audrey!
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