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166 REPORT OF THE INSPECTORS OF MINES. Off. Doc. Miscellaneous underground, 5 Miscellaneous on surface, 2 Total, 73 Non-Fatal Accidents and Their Causes. Explosions of gas, 11 P^xplosions of powder and blasts, 14 i\Iine cars and macliinerj', 13 Falls of slate and coal, 17 Miscellaneous underground, 7 Miscellaneous on surface, 11 Total 73 Summary Sixth Anthracite District, 1897. Total production in tons of coal, 0,475,930 Quantity of coal in tons used for steam and heat, 700,041 Sold to local trade and used by employes, 90,032 Itailroad shipments in tons of coal, 5,025,688 Tons of coal produced by washeries which are included in total production, 220,457 Number of fatal accidents, 73 Number of non-fatal accidents, 73 Number of fatal accidents inside, 62 Number of non-fatal accidents inside 53 Number of fatal accidents outside 11 Number of non-fatal accidents outside 20 Number of wives left widows, 35 Number of children left fatherless 83 Number of persons employed, 21,050 Number of kegs of powder used, 146,777 Number of i)onnds of dynamite used 233,528* Number of steam boilers in use, 903 Number of horses and mules 2,073 Number of mine locomotives, 39
No. 10. SIXTH ANTHRACITE DISTRICT. 167 Names of Collieries and the Number of Accidents that Occurred at Each, and the Names of Foremen. Names of Collieries. Names of Inside Foremen. Names of Outside Foremen. Boston Run St. Nicholas EUengowan, Ellengowan, Girard Mammoth, . Gilberton Hammond Indian Ridge Knickerbocker Kohinoor Mahanoy City Suffolk Schuylkill, ...: Shenandoah City, .. Shenandoah City, Turkey Run .. Tunnel Ridge, Tunnel Ridge Bear Ridge Bear Ridge West Shenandoah, . Maple Hill Draper, Packer No. 2 Packer No. 3 Packer No. 4 Packer No. 5 Primrose Honeybrook No. 4, . Honeybrook No. 4, . Honeybrook No. 5, . Honeybrook No. 5, . Wm. Penn, Park No. 2 Park No. 2 Silver Brook Buck Mountain, ... Vulcan, Kehley's Run Oneida No. 1 Slope, Oneida No. 2 Slope, Oneida No. 3 Slope, Lawrence Cambridge Furnace North Mahanoy, Thomas Coan, David Jones John Brown Silas Frost Charles Harlor, ... George Thomas, .. David Fulton Wm. Mitchell, John Balliet Patrick McDonald, George Kilgour, .. David Adamson, .. James McCabe, ... Fred. Carl, John W. Morgan, Ben Church, Thos. Eltringham, Mich. Bradley, John Hanson Wm. Evans, David Morgan, .... Ed. Coyle, John Mathews John Jones, P. Fenton Jas. Heaton, M. W. Price Wm. Palmer Jacob R. Evans, .. P. Sheridan Evan T. Jones, ... P. Sommers, M. Goldin Jas. Goldsworthy, Evan Jenkins S. Reese, J. R. Evans George K. Young, John Schwint, Thos. McNamara, Christ Miller Tobias Seiwell Ben. Evans John McGinnis, ... Thomas James John Durkin. Wm. Sauerbrey. John Heiler. John Heiler. Wm. Buckley. Wm. Bendon. John Haley. Albert Smith. Joseph Knapp. Dan. Lauderman. Anth. Ferguson. Thos. Lawrence. M. Baugh. M. Baugh. Fred. Reese. John Reid. John Reid. Arthur Jones. Arthur Jones. A. D. Gable. Chas. E. Frank. Wm. Bowen. John Brennan. Wm. Kaercher. Frank Scranton. A. D. Brown. Chas. Lynn. H. Mader. H. Mader. E. Slager. E Slager. J. Dunlap. Ed. Sykes. Ed. Syke E. W. Miller. M. Myers. Val. Meyers. John Keiper. Charles Miller. Charles Miller Cliarles Miller. J. Ruebrecht. David James. M. Gerber. Gilberton water shaft belonging to the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, is sunk to a depth of 1,075 feet to a vein four feet thick underlying the Buck Mountain vein 30 feet. The Gilberton Colliery connects with this water shaft as also will the Draper Colliery in the near future. A tunnel 707 feet long has been driven north across the basin from the fifth lift of Draper Colliery. The distance west from the shaft to this tunnel is 1,500 feet. The present distance driven west from the shaft in the four foot vein is 350 feet, and the distance driven east in same vein from l>asin tunnel is 200 feet, leaving 950 feet yet to be driven to connect with the Draper Colliery. After all the connections have been made
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