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Dodson Coal Company
Kaska William Colliery Inundation

Middleport, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
May 26, 1898
No. Killed - 6

Pennsylvania Annual Report Description  (2.3 Mb) PDF Format
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Written for Mines and Minerals by L. C. Morganroth, Lansford, Pa.
See also:   Kaska William Hoist Disaster, May 9, 1889
Kaska William Explosion, Feb. 21, 1923
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News icon Weekly Herald, May 28, 1898
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News icon The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 28, 1898
News icon The Daily News, June 28, 1898
News icon The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 12, 1898
News icon Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, Aug. 1, 1898


Six men met their death in this colliery, leased by the Dodson Coal Company from the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, by water breaking in from old workings which had been abandoned many years before.  Depending on inaccurate, misleading maps was the main cause of the disaster.

The deceased:
  • William Morgan, 27
  • William Derr, 18
  • Martin Molochus, 27
  • Peter Durkin, 24
  • Vindle Probviski, 40
  • Paul Katskoutski, 22
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