Falling Rock Causes the Death of Four Men in Pennsylvania Mine
Evening Bulletin, Decatur, Macon County, Illinois
April 20, 1896
Scranton, Pa., April 20. -- Falling rock in the Eddy creek shaft at Olyphant about 11:30 o'clock Saturday killed four men. The victims are Ralph and James Abbott, brothers, who lived at Throop; John McHale, of Olyphant, and William Harvey, of Priceburg. The men were known as rock miners, and were driving a tunnel from one part of the mine when a rock fell and killed them.
