Buck Mountain Coal Company Buck Mountain Colliery Explosion
Mahanoy City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
November 9, 1900
No. Killed - 7
Fatal Gas Explosion in Pennsylvania Colliery
Idaho Statesman, Boise, ID
November 10, 1900
Mahanoy City, Nov. 9. -- One man was killed, five others probably fatally injured and 20 others more or less seriously injured by an explosion of gas at the Buck Mount Colliery two miles from here:
The killed:
James Griffin
Fatally Injured:
Jose Storkenus
Edward Galligher
Charles Jones
Henry O'Bright
John G. McGlynn
As far as can be learned, the explosion was apparently due to Edward Gallagher going into an abandoned working place with a naked lamp which ignited the gas.
