Date of accident | Name of person | Nationality | Occupation | Age | Married or single | Number of widows | Number of orphans | Name of Colliery | County | Nature and Cause of Accident in Brief |
Jan. 16 | Paul Williams | Welsh | Driver boss | 33 | M | 1 | 3 | Truesdale | Luzerne | Killed by runaway trip of cars on slope. He was walking down the slope when the chain broke. |
Feb. 28 | Adolph Dobrowalski | Polish | Miner | 36 | S | Number 5 | Luzerne | Fatally injured by premature blast. | ||
Mar. 20 | John Grady | Irish | Electrician | 22 | S | Bliss | Luzerne | Fatally injured by an electric shock while working on a pole. Outside. | ||
Apr. 5 | Joseph Andrisick | Polish | Laborer | 22 | S | Wanamie | Luzerne | Fatally injured by fall of coal near face of chamber. | ||
26 | Andrew Bilzco | Russian | Laborer | 20 | S | Wanamie | Luzerne | Killed by fall of coal at face of chamber. | ||
Wadic Dubish | Polish | Miner | 40 | M | 1 | 5 | Number 7 | Luzerne | Killed by premature blast at face of chamber. | |
27 | Leo Tusanell | Polish | Miner | 41 | M | 1 | 6 | Luzerne | Fatally burned by gas at face of chamber. | |
29 | John Gill | Polish | Miner | 38 | M | 1 | 5 | Number 7 | Luzerne | Fatally burned by gas at face of chamber. |
May. 12 | Michael Houdak | Russian | Mason | 54 | M | 1 | Number 6 | Luzerne | Fatally injured by cars at foot of shaft. | |
16 | Mike Rocka | Lithuanian | Laborer | 27 | M | 1 | Bliss | Luzerne | Killed by fall of top coal at face of chamber. | |
Jun. 3 | August Michalski | Polish | Laborer | 31 | M | 1 | 2 | Bliss | Luzerne | Killed by coming in contact with trolley wire on gangway. |
5 | William Strumfries | Swedish | Laborer | 47 | M | 1 | 1 | Bliss | Luzerne | Killed by fall of coal at face of chamber. |
7 | Bazyl Potroff | Polish | Miner | 30 | M | 1 | 1 | West End | Luzerne | Killed by fall of coal at face of chamber. |
8 | John Broderick | Polish | Miner | 49 | M | 1 | 6 | Truesdale | Luzerne | Killed by explosion of charge while connecting wires to fire a blast. One of their firing wires was |
Steve Trynick | Polish | Laborer | 45 | M | 1 | 2 | Truesdale | Luzerne | connected to the negative electric light wire, while the other was touching the rail of an electric haulage road. | |
14 | Andrew Magooda | Polish | Laborer | 48 | M | 1 | 4 | Wanamie | Luzerne | Killed by fall of slate at face of working place. |
16 | Lewis Pero | Italian | Laborer | 22 | S | Wanamie | Luzerne | Killed by fall of slate at face of working place. | ||
Jun-19 | Charles Hughes | Bohemian | Miner | 53 | M | 1 | 3 | Bliss | Luzerne | Killed by explosion of dynamite in chamber. |
29 | Peter Marcelevice | Polish | Miner | 32 | M | 2 | 2 | Auchincloss | Luzerne | Killed by fall of coal at face of chamber. |
Sept. 21 | Leon Carzvalie | Polish | Laborer | 24 | M | 1 | 1 | Auchincloss | Luzerne | Killed by fall of rock at face of chamber. |
27 | Sam Sharkaia | Austrian | Slopeman | 25 | S | Truesdale | Luzerne | Fatally injured by being squeezed by car on which he was riding on slope. The car jumped off the track. | ||
Oct. 12 | Frank Whitcofski | American | Miner | 31 | M | 1 | 4 | Number 7 | Luzerne | Killed by fall of rock at face of chamber. |
13 | Louis Sink | Polish | Loader | 45 | M | 1 | 5 | Number 6 | Luzerne | Fatally injured by being run over by car under breaker. Outside. |
17 | Edward Wasilewski | Polish | Laborer | 28 | M | 1 | 1 | Truesdale | Luzerne | Killed by fall of rock at face of chamber. |
Nov. 8 | Frank Bystrek | Polish | Laborer | 30 | M | 1 | 2 | Number 7 | Luzerne | Killed by fall of rock at face of chamber. |
17 | Louis Gentiline | Austrian | Laborer | 42 | M | 1 | 2 | Number 6 | Luzerne | Killed by fall of rock near face of tunnel. |
Dec. 2 | Michael Bucho | Slavonian | Brakeman | 19 | S | Bliss | Luzerne | Killed by fall of rock on gangway road. | ||
Benjamin P. Thomas | Welsh | Miner | 45 | M | 1 | 4 | Auchincloss | Luzerne | Fatally burned by gas while at work in | |
John Nigosh | Slavonian | Laborer | 37 | M | 1 | 5 | Auchincloss | Luzerne | face of gangway. | |
12 | Sherd Hughes | American | Miner | 43 | M | 1 | West End | Luzerne | Killed by fall of rock while cleaning up cave on gangway. | |
13 | Frank Coperlitti | Italian | Miner | 27 | M | 1 | 1 | West End | Luzerne | Killed by premature blast at face of gangway. |
14 | John Bryant | English | Assistant foreman | 38 | M | 1 | 5 | Number 7 | Luzerne | Suffocated by gas. He went into a cross-cut, whichwas not yet connected with opposite chamber, to rap to approaching miner, and was overcome and died before he could be rescued. |
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