1879 First or Pottsville District Rpt of Fatal Accidents

1879 First or Pottsville District Rpt of Fatal Accidents (consisting of part of Schuylkill Co.) (from the Reports of the Inspectors of Mines of the Anthracite Coal Regions of Pennsylvania for the Year 1879)

1/1 JOSEPH SLINN, Beechwood colliery, miner

1/24 JAMES MCHUGH, Lehigh No. 8 colliery, married - 6 children, miner

2/6 GEORGE MILWARD, Wadesville colliery, boy, driver

3/4 WILLIAM CRONE, Rausch Creek colliery, miner

3/4 THOMAS TEENEY, Rausch Creek colliery, miner

3/19 LEWIS MURRAY, Pottsville shaft, married - 2 children, tunnel man

3/19 JAMES D MULHEARN, Pottsville shaft, married - 2 children, tunnel man

3/19 WILLIAM MURRAY, Pottsville shaft, contractor

5/20 JOHN CAMPION, Thomaston colliery, Dirt b'k driver

6/10 WM. O JENKINS, Black Heath colliery, married - 9 children, miner

6/14 FRANK KEMMERY, Wadesville colliery, laborer

7/14 ANDREW J MORGAN, Rausch Creek, married, miner

7/1 ANDREW EAGAN, Richardson colliery, miner

7/16 MALACHI MOORE, Mine Hill Gap colliery, 16, driver

7/22 PATRICK H KELLY, Thomaston colliery, 22, single, miner

7/23 MATHEW KOEHLER or COLOR, Richardson colliery, an old man, no family, laborer

7/28 EDWARD COLIHAN, Eagle Hill shaft, top man

7/21 MICHAEL REILLY, Beechwood colliery, married, miner

10/2 WILLIAM HARRIS, Thomaston colliery, 50, married - 4 children, miner

11/13 SAMUEL MOSELY, Wadesville colliery, 65, married children grown, miner

11/27 BENEDICT TREFSGER, East Franklin colliery, 32, married - 3 children, miner

12/11 FREDERICK HOY, Faust & Son colliery, 40, married - 4 children

12/11 JOHN ECKLER, Faust & Son colliery, 25, married - 2 children

12/11 WILLIAM JAMISON, Faust & Son colliery. 18, single