Five men, employed by the Mount Pleasant Mining Company, were overcome by black damp, four of them fatally and the fifth was injured, when they were lowered in a cage to the bottom of the abandoned Fleischner mine.  The men were employees of a cooperative organization and were going to inspect the mine with the possibility of leasing it and again putting it in operation.

The deceased:

• Haskell Brown
• Raymond Tryon
• Cyril Vermillion
• Hewitt W. Stout

Injured:

• Charles Lawson, 68