1884 Fatalities South Anthracite
District
1884
Rpt of Fatal Accidents in the South Anthracite District, comprising parts of
Luzerne County, and Carbon County.
(from
the Reports of the Inspectors of Mines of the Anthracite Coal Regions of Pennsylvania
for the Year Ending 31 December, 1884)
1/21 WILLIE HANCOCK, door-boy, 15, Nesquehoning
1/25 JOHN W THOMAS, roadman, 65, married, Lansford
No. 5
1/29 FRANK BIERLY, slate-picker, 15, Eckley #5
2/22 JOHN HOWORTH, slate-picker, 15, Eckley #2
2/25 CHARLES OSWALD, miner, 38, married, Cranberry
mine
3/4 AUGUST GROUSE, co. laborer, 21, Drifton #1
3/5 JOHN M JONES, miner, 54, married 2 orphans,
Stockton #2
3/8 RICHARD WALKER, driver, 18, Sugar Loaf
3/11 GEORGE GOERLICK, loader, 20, Upper Lehigh #2
4/10 MICHAEL BRUCHICK, laborer, 43, married,
Humboldt
4/21 STEPHEN BUTZKORSH, laborer, 35, married 4
orphans, Ebervale
4/25 HENRY MARSHMAN, miner, 40, married 4 orphans,
Drifton #2
5/7 JOHN HANLON, laborer, 25, Tresckow #7
5/12 JOHN JUMBLE, laborer, 31, married 3 orphans,
Derringer
6/16 MICHAEL MADDLE, miner, 27, Derringer
7/10 THOMAS MCDONALD, laborer, 48, Nesquehoning
7/26 ROBERT FOX, miner, 33, married 4 orphans,
Upper Lehigh #6
8/20 JOSEPH FETZGO, laborer, 27, South Sugar Loaf
8/28 FRANK MUNDER, miner, 28, Eckley #5
9/8 THOMAS TRAVENNA, miner, Coleraine #2
9/10 ANDREW HAMETS, laborer, 22, Ebervale
9/18 JOHN MARSHMAN, helper, 17, Drifton #1
9/19 PATRICK DEVER, miner, 24, Lansford #9
9/20 MICHAEL BARSHTON, laborer, 30, Tresckow #6
9/30 JOSEPH IGLAR, miner, 34, married 4 orphans,
Mount Pleasant
10/15 (name blank), laborer, 20, Ebervale
10/18 AUGUST CONCINE, miner, 26, Lattimer #3
10/25 ADAM BACHMAN, miner, 60, married, Hazleton #3
11/6 JAMES DAY, oiler, Lansford #9
11/13 BURTON MCKEEVER, engineer, Lansford #6
11/13 HUGH GALLAGHER, fireman, Lansford #6
11/15 JOHN ANDREKO, laborer, 21, Coleraine
11/20 JOHN HAIMER, laborer, 22, Upper Lehigh #1
11/22 JAMES ASHWORTH, miner, 56, married, Oakdale
#1
11/24 JOHN ONCICK, laborer, 24, Yorktown #6
11/26 EDWARD CANNON, helper, Lansford #5
12/2 ANDREW MILLER, timberman, Lansford #6
12/3 ROBERT MILLS, pump-runner, 23, East Crystal
Ridge
12/11 JOHN BONER, helper, 16, Drifton #1
12/18 THOMAS SHULTZ, driver, Lansford #5
The above information was
donated by: Ed Langley
©1997-2016 by Mary Ann
Lubinsky for the PAGenWeb Project, and by Individual Contributors
Mary Ann Lubinsky, County
Coordinator
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