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TABLE NO. 3.-Showing the number of each class of employes at each colliery in the Fourth Bituminous Mine District, during the year 1895.

Occupations of Persons Employed Inside. Occupations of Persons Employed Outside.

Arnot Nos. 3 and 5,

Antrim Nos. 1 and 5,

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Liock Nos. 1, 2 and 3,
Lear Run,

Beachtree No. 3,

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TARLE NO. 4.-List of fatal accidents that occurred in and about the mines of the Fourth Bituminous Mine District for the year ending December 31, 1895.

Date of accident.

Name of Person.

Occupation.

Age.

Widow.

Number of orphans.

Name of Colliery.

Location--County.

Nature and Cause of Accident.

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Was instantly killed by fall of slate
while shoveling coal from under it.
This man did not seem to realize the
danger in which he labored, or he
would have either put up a post to
support the roof or would have taken
it down. He had been working in this
place only about six days, and was
not accustomed to the kind of work.
Was instantly killed by fall of coal
while engaged drawing pillars; the
coroner held an investigation and
rendered a verdict of accidental death.
Was instantly killed by mine car; the
deceased and two others were putting
a car on the track with a rail for a
lever, when one of them let the rail
go to block the car, causing the rail to
fly up throwing him against the roof
and breaking his neck.

Fatally injured by an explosion of shot
powder at place of working, and died
during the following evening at the
Cottage Hospital.

Was fatally injured while loading a
car by fall of slate, which broke his
right arm. collar bone and several
ribs. He was engaged on pillar work
with his adopted father, David Ander-
son; the accident occurred at 11 A.
M.. and he died at 3 P. M. the same
day.

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Nature and Cause of Accident.

Was fatally injured by being caugh
between wagons and rib, on the dilly
road, and died some twenty hours
after the accident.

Was fatally injured by fall of slate and
died two hours afterward; was work-
ing with his father at the time of the
accident.

Was instantly killed by fall of coal,
while mining. He with two others were
engaged taking out room pillars; he
had the coal undercut to a depth of
five feet and was undercutting when
it dropped on him. The width of the
pillar was about sixteen feet "open
ended,' and no spraggs for support.
Was instantly killed by fall of slate.
After a careful examination of the
place where the accident occurred, I
am of the opinion that it was un-
avoldable; the slate which fell meas-
ured on an average five feet long two
feet wide and eight inches thick. the
shape being in the form of what is
known in mining parlance as a "pot.
Deceased left a widow and one child.
Was instantly killed by a fall of slate
from side of heading: the coroner
held an investigation and rendered a
verdict of accidental death.

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