Kaska William Colliery Inundation

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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)

The Accident at Kaska-William Colliery

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

In the News (news links open in a separate window in PDF format)
	Weekly Herald, May 28, 1898
	The Times Leader, May 28, 1898
	The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 28, 1898
	The Daily News, June 28, 1898
	The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 12, 1898
	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: