1900 - Coalmininghistorypa.org

264 REPORT OF THE BUREAU OP MINES. Off. Doc.
The inside foreman, who was at the pump house with George Brady,
told him to go and toll Timothy not to work at it while the cars
Mere running on the slope, but to wait until the trip was hoisted,
when they would stop hoisting until the pipe was put in. George
had just got to where the victim was, when an empty car coming
down the slope left the track and caught Timothy between it and
the rib,
injuring him very severely; he died while being taken to the
Miners' Hospital.
Charles FJisenacher, laborer, was fatally injured at West Brookside
colliery on December 3d. On the day of the accident, while pulling
the last wagon for the day to the dump, he ran along between the
wagon and the upper side of the gangway and raising his head it
was caught between the top of the car and a gangway leg, receiving
injuries from which he died on December 4th.
Fred. Gunder, an outside laborer, was killed at Eagle Hill colliery,
on December 14th, by being ran over by railroad cars, below the
breaker. He was working with another man, cleaning up between
the breaker and the slush tanks. As there was some water dropping,
he told his partner he would go and see the foreman and get an oilcloth
coat. A few minutes later he was found lying on the railroad
track about ninety feet below where he would have to cross the
track, having been run over by two loaded cars that were being
run from the breaker. The car loader was between the cars, while
running them down, and did not see him. He died a few minutes
after being found.
Improvements Made at Collieries During 1900.
West Brookside Colliery.—An opening has
been made from the
surface to the rock, foundation walls have been built and the head
frame is being erected, for the purpose of sinking a new shaft between
the top of the East Brookside No. 5 Lykens Valley vein slope
and the hoisting engine house. This slope has a north dip, and the
shaft is being started south of the top of it in the red shale measures
underlying the lowest coal bed, viz: the No. G Lykens Valley. The
shaft will be 28x12 feet 8 inches inside of the timber and will be
divided into four compartments, the two middle ones for hoisting coal.
The two end compartments will each be sub-divided by an eight-inch
bunton, making two compartments each of six feet square for hoisting
water.
This shaft will be more than 1,800 feet deep to the level of
the lowest slope gangway, from which a tunnel about 1,200 feet
long will be driven south through the strata underlying the coal
measures to connect with the bottom of the shaft.
A pair of new hoisting engines have been installed to hoist from the
East Brookside No. 4 vein Lykens Valley slope, which is of the