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; FATAL ACCIDENT AT RICHARD BINE,B ___I SIX SIUN KILLED AND ONE SERI.(JUSLT INJURED,i One Man Killed ou Tuesday, lielng l Iiur,ea Undoe Tons ol Karth-OnI Thursday Two Accidents Result inITvo Deaths—llodies All Recovered I Hut Oue.i ihree accidents, resulting in the death ofeli men and the probably fatal Injury of aseventh, occurred at the Richard Mins thisweek.i 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, aboqt 600 feet below the surface a “fall” occurred and Nichole was buried beneath thousands of tons of rock and earth. His 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 ominpus rumble, which continued at intervals, three distinct “ falls” being heard. No attempt could 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 was 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 was 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 surface, near where about two hours earlier a heavy blast bad been fired. It is said 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 warning they evidently had not heeded. While loading their car a mass of ore from a sloping pillar fell over on them, burying David'and Monah, while the other two Hungarians escaped. They raised an alarm and miners wbo hastened to the spot got Monah from under the mass of ore and brought him to the surface. They did not know at the time that another mao 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 in the engine house began to ring and when in responss to the signal the skip was hoisted to the surface Trevarthon, with blood streaming from a gash in bis bead, was its 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 mass of ore had separated from the s’ope and fallen on the four men, he himself narrowly eBcaping the same fate.News of the dual accident spread like wild Are and hundreds from Richard’ Mice 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 his most careful miners to bring up the bodies, which waB done shortly before midnight without further mishap.AU but two of the victims of Tuesday’s and yesterday’s accidents wefe married and several of them had large families. The unmarried ones wore Richard Cook and Albert David. Frederick Nichols, who was killed in No. 1 Bhaft on Tuesday, leaves a wife and six children, the youngest only 4 monthB old and the oldest 13 yeara.Richard Collect, wbo was twice married, leaves a wife and Beven children, three of them being the offsprings of his first marriage, William Cooper leaves a wife and four children, while Richard Branch is survived by his wife only.John Monab, who wasso seriously injured,Is married and has a large family of children.Albert David, the Hungarian who waB 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. 1 R. Dalrymple, Henry Ervey. The jury and ' ooroner went to Richard Mine this morning, j The inquest will be held in Moller’s Hall on Tuesday, July 1, at 10 o’clock. jThe work of trying to recover the body of Frederick Nicholas has,been' temporarily suspended, Superintendent Arthur regarding the risk os too great.Tho funerals of Richard Branch, Richard Cook and Albert David will take place tomorrow afternoon. William Hooper’s funeral j will take place ou Sunday morningand Rich- , ard Collect’s on Sunday afternoon.
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Dover Iron Era
Dover, New Jersey, US
Fri, Jun 27, 1902
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