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East Oregonian : E.O
Pendleton, Umatilla County, Oregon
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In Wilkesbarre, Pa., on April 26, a hoisting rope snapped without warning, causing a mine cage to fall nearly 1000 feet in the Cunningham shaft, killing 10 miners en route to work. Rescue efforts found the bodies horribly mangled; seven were identified.
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Fell With a Cage to the Bottom of a Thousand Foot Coal Mine Shaft.
WIRE CABLE SNAPPED WITHOUT ANY WARNING.
The Miners Were Being Lowered to Work Early in the Morning-A Rescue Party Found All the Bodies Horribly Mangled, Three Beyond Recognition-The Accident Is One of the Most Deplorable in the History of Mining in the Wilkesbarre District Nearly All the Men Killed Were Foreigners.
Wilkesbarre, Pa., April 26. As the result of the breaking of a hoisting rope, attached to a mine cage in the Cunningham shaft of the Delaware, Hudson Coal company at 6:30 this morning, 10 miners were precipitated nearly 1000 feet to death at the bottom of the shaft.
The men were being lowered to work when the accident occurred. The engineer says the machinery was working perfectly when the rope snapped without warning.
A rescue party lowered down the other shaft, found the bodies mangled in a horrible manner.
Seven Dead Identified
Up till noon seven dead have been identified: William Harvey, Frank Rogel, August Zayarcey, John Juritski, Harry McGraw, Anthony Zilvic and Lorenz Warnick.
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Wilkesbarre, Pa.
Event Date
April 26
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10 miners killed, bodies horribly mangled, three beyond recognition
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The breaking of a hoisting rope attached to a mine cage in the Cunningham shaft of the Delaware, Hudson Coal company precipitated 10 miners nearly 1000 feet to the bottom of the shaft at 6:30 a.m. while they were being lowered to work. The engineer reported the machinery was working perfectly when the rope snapped without warning. A rescue party found the bodies mangled in a horrible manner. Seven dead identified by noon.