Tank's Poetry
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united states mine rescue association
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1898 Anthracite Fatalities
Successful RescueOctober 30, 1897 - Joseph Yomaski, one of the men entombed in the Von Storch Mine of the Delaware and Hudson Company, was rescued at 10 o'clock Saturday night. The bodies of the other men were afterwards found and brought to the surface. In an interview, the Pole explained that when his companions began to suffer their death agonies, he at once urged them to follow him, but they refused. He escaped to an old airway where he knew of a hand fan, over which he placed a box, and in that inserted his head. He then kept the fan going for ten hours and kept himself alive until rescued. Suffocated in a Coal Mine Logansport Pharos-Tribune, Indiana November 1, 1897 The dead are:
Fire kept them out of the slope, and the smoke which backed into all the workings prevented escape through the cross-cuts. Miners and city firemen in their efforts to fight the fire in the slope were handicapped by several extensive falls of roof, caused by the burning of the timbers, and by the fear of forcing the air current downward instead of upward. The workers were threatened by falls of roof and the "squeezing" of the walls. Chief Hickey, of the Scranton fire department, and eight firemen narrowly escaped death. They were driving the smoke before them by the use of water from a big spray nozzle when the air current was changed at the shaft and the smoke enveloped the party. They groped their way 200 feet to the opening and collapsed in the open air. |
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