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Two Miners Die In Falls At Dun Ancre And Pittston
In Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania on February 20 William Fairchild a 16 year old miner at No 5 colliery operated by Pennsylvania Coal Company Dun Ancre slipped on ice at the shaft head and fell 650 feet dying instantly his body recovered half an hour later. A second corpse Joseph Ashmont found at the bottom of the No 1 colliery shaft also operated by the same company at Pittston is believed to have fallen about 508 feet after slipping while returning home earlier that morning.
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Wan
Boy
Wilkesbarre Pa
William Fairchild
No. 5
Pennsylvania Coal Company
Dun Ancre
Joseph Ashmont
No. 1
Pittston