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: ?4TAL ACCIDENT AT RICHARD BINE.j Six UE1T KILLED AND ONE SERI.OUSLY INJURED,; One Milu Killed ou Tuesday, llelngHurled Undor Tons ol Earth-OnTliursday Th-o Accidents Result Inrivo Deatlis-Uodies All RecoveredHut Oue.Three accident!, resulting in the death of sir men and the probably fatal injury at a seventh, occurred at the Klcbsrd Mine thisweek.On Tuesday afternoon, ae Fred Nichols, 35 yearB old, was engaged with two other miners in what is known in miner’s parlance as ‘scramming,” in shaft No. 1, aboyt 600 feet below the surface a “fall” occurred and Nichols was buried beneath thousands of tons of rock and earth. Bis companions had only a moment before pushed a carload of ore to the foot of tho shaft and were In the act of returning when they heard an omlnpus rumble, which continued at intervals, three distinct “ falls” being heard. No attempt oould be made to recover the body of their unfortunate fellow miner, as the “falls” continued throughout the afternoon and nfgbt. On Wednesday and yesterday, however, the work of recovery, was taken up, only to be interrupted late on Thursday afternoon by au accident in shaft Ne. 2, which resulted in the death of Albert David, a Hungarian miner, and the serious injury of John Monah, also a Hungarian, whose tbigh and two riba were fractured, and who also sustained other injuries of a more or less serious character. It waa while trying to recover David’s body that : four others, William Hooper, a general chargeman ; Richard Branch, chargeman of a gang; Richard Collect, a timberman, and Richard Cook, a miner, were killed, while Thomas Trevarthon, who waa with them, narrowly escaped the Barae fate.David and Monab, with two other Hungarian miners, about 6 o’clock were engaged in loading ore In a level 7T0 feet below the sur-face, near where about two hours earlier a heavy blast bad been fired. It is aaid that they had been warned by the ** boss of the preceding shift not to go near the place until the earth had had a chance to settle, but this i warning they evidently had not heeded. While loading their car a mass of ore from a eloping pillar fell over on them, burying David'and Monah, while the other two Hun- : gariauB escaprd. They raised an alarm and miners wbo hastened to the spot got Monah from under the mass of ore and brought him i to the surface. They did not know at the time that another man had been buried by the “fall,” and it was some time later that one of the Hungarians who had escaped injury rushed up to Superintendent Arthur and excitedly told him that there was another Hungarian under the ore. A party of five, Hooper, Collect, Branch, Cook and Trevarthon, at once descended the shaft, being warned by Superintendent Arthur to be careful and not take any unnecessary risks. It was not long after they bad gone down that the bell fa the engine house began to ring and when in responss to the signal the skip waa hoisted to the surface Trevarthon, with blood streaming from a gash in bis bead, was ita sole passenger, and his message to the eager waiting throng gathered about the mouth of tho shaft was that^ while he and his companions were trying to recover David’s body another maBs of ore had separated from the s’ope and fallen on the four men, he himself narrowly escaping the same fate.News of the dual accident spread like wild Are and hundreds from Richard’ Mine and the surrounding country hastened to the scene. T here werevolunteers a-plenty ready to go down, Trevarthon, whose head had meanwhile been bandaged, among them, and Superintendent Arthur sent down a party of J his most careful miners to bring up the bod- : ies, which waB done shortly before midnight without further mishap. ■ . JAU but two of the victims of Tuesday’s and ; yesterday’s accidents wefe married and sev- . oral of them had large families. The unmar- j ried ones wore Richard Cook and Albert -{ David. Frederick Nichols, who was killed in j No. 1 Bhaft on Tuesday, leaves a wife and six 1 children, the youngest only 4 months old and 1 the oldest 13 yeare. tRichard Collect, wbo was twice married, j leaves a wife and Beven children, three of j them being the offsprings of hie first marriage, , William Cooper leaves a wife and *cur I children, while Richard Branch is survived by his wife only. jJohn Monab, who wasso seriously injured, j Is married and has a large family of children. | Albert David, the Hungarian who waB j killed, came to this country only recently and had been employed at the Richard Mine about three months only.Coroner Hagan this morning impanelled the fallowing jury.* John Martin, L, B. Hedden, Andrew Freeman, Dr. F. Miller, J.R. Dalrymple, Henry Ervey. The jury and ooroner went to Richard Mine this morning. The inquest will be held in Moller’s Hall on Tuesday, July 1, at 10 o’clock.The work of trying to recover the body of Frederick Nicholas has,been temporarily i suspended, Superintendent Arthur regarding J the risk as too great. jTho funerals of Richard Branch, Richard \ Cook and Albert David will take place tomorrow afternoon. William Hooper’s funeral will take place ou Sunday morningand Richard Collect’s on Sunday afternoon.John Gay nor Drowned.The body of John Gsynor, whose home was on the Mine Hill road, was found floating In the SuB8GX'Btreet look of the Morris canal at 5 o’clock this morning. He was discovered by two employees of the rolling mill, Alfred Stfresand Edward Peterson, while on tbelr way to work. Stires notified Night Officer Byram, who reported it to Coroner Hagan. Gaynor was last Been about 12:80 o’clock at the corner of Warren and Blackwell Btreeta by Edward Maloney and James Melick. He waa about 70 years old and'of very irregular habits and it is supposed that instead of turning up Blackwell street in the direction J of bis home he walked over Warren street and Into the canal. A jury was impanelled , this morning, consisting of Edward Totten, foreman; Theodore Bunnell, John Young, J. j P. Force, William Birmingham and Martin , McDonald. The inquest will be held Wednesday, July 2, in Moller’a Hall.
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Dover Iron Era
Dover, New Jersey, US
Fri, Jun 27, 1902
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