Tank's Poetry
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united states mine rescue association
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Tank's Poetry |
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Explosion in a Coal Pit, Eight Lives Lost Critic-Record, Washington D.C. May 22, 1876 The men were working seven hundred feet below the surface when the explosion of foul air and gas occurred, being heard for miles. The manager and others descended the pit, and after search came upon the bodies of James Carrol, foreman; Charles Holder, John Marshal, Thomas Golden, Robert Hall, Joseph Hadley, colored; William Morris, colored, and Phillip Elliott, colored, all dead, and a number of others were more or less injured. The mouth of the pit was crowded by the wives and relatives of the killed and injured, frantic with grief at their loss. |
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