TWO MEN KILLED
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Victims Caught by Fall of Rock at Plymouth
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Accident occurred in Nottingham Colliery of L. & W.-B. Coal Co. - Two Others Seriously Hurt - Laborer Loses an Eye By Premature Blast. Dead Men Were Well Known.
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Two lives were crushed out, two wives made widows and eleven children made orphans yesterday afternoon when Joseph Patten and Thomas Pugh of Plymouth were caught by a fall of rock at the Nottingham colliery of the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Co. at that place. In the same accident Philip Davis, also of Plymouth, escaped with a few body bruises. Yesterday morning George Johns, a laborer at the same colliery, lost an eye and seriously injured the other eye when a charge of powder he was tamping exploded.
Shortly after the noon hour Messrs. Patten, Pugh and Davis were sent to No. 7, West No. 1 slope, to timber a part of the roof that was considered dangerous. Before completing the task the roof fell in and Davis and Pugh were buried under the rock. That Mr. Davis escaped is considered a miracle.
When the first news of the accident reached the surface it was reported that several men had been killed and injured. Ambulances were summoned from the Nottingham and Parrish collieries. Davis was removed to his home on Walnut street and the remains of Patten to the family home on Shawnee avenue and those of Pugh to his late home on Gaylord avenue.
Mr. Patten was 55 years of age and is survived by his wife and nine children, as follows: Walter, Irving, Robert, Joseph, Ernest, Albert, Ethel, Henry and Mrs. William Hall, the latter of West Nanticoke; also by three brothers and three sisters - Robert and Thomas Patten of Plymouth, John Patten, Mrs. Charles Corn and Mrs. Robert Courtley of Philadelphia and Mrs. George Davidson of Plymouth. Deceased was a member of Court Lincoln, Foresters of America, and Wadhams Lodge, I. O. O. F. Within the past year three brothers-in-law of Mr. Patten have been claimed by death, one meeting a similar death at the Parrish colliery.
Mr. Pugh was 38 years of age and leaves a wife and two little daughters. He is also survived by his father, Thomas H. Pugh; four brothers and one sister: David in Wales, Howell, Evan, Noah and Mrs. Harry Leeds of Plymouth. He was a member of Shawnee Lodge, I. O. O. F., and the Knights of Malta. He will be buried on Monday afternoon with interment in Shawnee Cemetery.
(Wilkes-Barre Record, 15 Feb 1913)
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Victims Caught by Fall of Rock at Plymouth
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Accident occurred in Nottingham Colliery of L. & W.-B. Coal Co. - Two Others Seriously Hurt - Laborer Loses an Eye By Premature Blast. Dead Men Were Well Known.
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Two lives were crushed out, two wives made widows and eleven children made orphans yesterday afternoon when Joseph Patten and Thomas Pugh of Plymouth were caught by a fall of rock at the Nottingham colliery of the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Co. at that place. In the same accident Philip Davis, also of Plymouth, escaped with a few body bruises. Yesterday morning George Johns, a laborer at the same colliery, lost an eye and seriously injured the other eye when a charge of powder he was tamping exploded.
Shortly after the noon hour Messrs. Patten, Pugh and Davis were sent to No. 7, West No. 1 slope, to timber a part of the roof that was considered dangerous. Before completing the task the roof fell in and Davis and Pugh were buried under the rock. That Mr. Davis escaped is considered a miracle.
When the first news of the accident reached the surface it was reported that several men had been killed and injured. Ambulances were summoned from the Nottingham and Parrish collieries. Davis was removed to his home on Walnut street and the remains of Patten to the family home on Shawnee avenue and those of Pugh to his late home on Gaylord avenue.
Mr. Patten was 55 years of age and is survived by his wife and nine children, as follows: Walter, Irving, Robert, Joseph, Ernest, Albert, Ethel, Henry and Mrs. William Hall, the latter of West Nanticoke; also by three brothers and three sisters - Robert and Thomas Patten of Plymouth, John Patten, Mrs. Charles Corn and Mrs. Robert Courtley of Philadelphia and Mrs. George Davidson of Plymouth. Deceased was a member of Court Lincoln, Foresters of America, and Wadhams Lodge, I. O. O. F. Within the past year three brothers-in-law of Mr. Patten have been claimed by death, one meeting a similar death at the Parrish colliery.
Mr. Pugh was 38 years of age and leaves a wife and two little daughters. He is also survived by his father, Thomas H. Pugh; four brothers and one sister: David in Wales, Howell, Evan, Noah and Mrs. Harry Leeds of Plymouth. He was a member of Shawnee Lodge, I. O. O. F., and the Knights of Malta. He will be buried on Monday afternoon with interment in Shawnee Cemetery.
(Wilkes-Barre Record, 15 Feb 1913)
TWO MEN KILLED
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Victims Caught by Fall of Rock at Plymouth
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Accident occurred in Nottingham Colliery of L. & W.-B. Coal Co. - Two Others Seriously Hurt - Laborer Loses an Eye By Premature Blast. Dead Men Were Well Known.
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Two lives were crushed out, two wives made widows and eleven children made orphans yesterday afternoon when Joseph Patten and Thomas Pugh of Plymouth were caught by a fall of rock at the Nottingham colliery of the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Co. at that place. In the same accident Philip Davis, also of Plymouth, escaped with a few body bruises. Yesterday morning George Johns, a laborer at the same colliery, lost an eye and seriously injured the other eye when a charge of powder he was tamping exploded.
Shortly after the noon hour Messrs. Patten, Pugh and Davis were sent to No. 7, West No. 1 slope, to timber a part of the roof that was considered dangerous. Before completing the task the roof fell in and Davis and Pugh were buried under the rock. That Mr. Davis escaped is considered a miracle.
When the first news of the accident reached the surface it was reported that several men had been killed and injured. Ambulances were summoned from the Nottingham and Parrish collieries. Davis was removed to his home on Walnut street and the remains of Patten to the family home on Shawnee avenue and those of Pugh to his late home on Gaylord avenue.
Mr. Patten was 55 years of age and is survived by his wife and nine children, as follows: Walter, Irving, Robert, Joseph, Ernest, Albert, Ethel, Henry and Mrs. William Hall, the latter of West Nanticoke; also by three brothers and three sisters - Robert and Thomas Patten of Plymouth, John Patten, Mrs. Charles Corn and Mrs. Robert Courtley of Philadelphia and Mrs. George Davidson of Plymouth. Deceased was a member of Court Lincoln, Foresters of America, and Wadhams Lodge, I. O. O. F. Within the past year three brothers-in-law of Mr. Patten have been claimed by death, one meeting a similar death at the Parrish colliery.
Mr. Pugh was 38 years of age and leaves a wife and two little daughters. He is also survived by his father, Thomas H. Pugh; four brothers and one sister: David in Wales, Howell, Evan, Noah and Mrs. Harry Leeds of Plymouth. He was a member of Shawnee Lodge, I. O. O. F., and the Knights of Malta. He will be buried on Monday afternoon with interment in Shawnee Cemetery.
(Wilkes-Barre Record, 15 Feb 1913)
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Victims Caught by Fall of Rock at Plymouth
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Accident occurred in Nottingham Colliery of L. & W.-B. Coal Co. - Two Others Seriously Hurt - Laborer Loses an Eye By Premature Blast. Dead Men Were Well Known.
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Two lives were crushed out, two wives made widows and eleven children made orphans yesterday afternoon when Joseph Patten and Thomas Pugh of Plymouth were caught by a fall of rock at the Nottingham colliery of the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Co. at that place. In the same accident Philip Davis, also of Plymouth, escaped with a few body bruises. Yesterday morning George Johns, a laborer at the same colliery, lost an eye and seriously injured the other eye when a charge of powder he was tamping exploded.
Shortly after the noon hour Messrs. Patten, Pugh and Davis were sent to No. 7, West No. 1 slope, to timber a part of the roof that was considered dangerous. Before completing the task the roof fell in and Davis and Pugh were buried under the rock. That Mr. Davis escaped is considered a miracle.
When the first news of the accident reached the surface it was reported that several men had been killed and injured. Ambulances were summoned from the Nottingham and Parrish collieries. Davis was removed to his home on Walnut street and the remains of Patten to the family home on Shawnee avenue and those of Pugh to his late home on Gaylord avenue.
Mr. Patten was 55 years of age and is survived by his wife and nine children, as follows: Walter, Irving, Robert, Joseph, Ernest, Albert, Ethel, Henry and Mrs. William Hall, the latter of West Nanticoke; also by three brothers and three sisters - Robert and Thomas Patten of Plymouth, John Patten, Mrs. Charles Corn and Mrs. Robert Courtley of Philadelphia and Mrs. George Davidson of Plymouth. Deceased was a member of Court Lincoln, Foresters of America, and Wadhams Lodge, I. O. O. F. Within the past year three brothers-in-law of Mr. Patten have been claimed by death, one meeting a similar death at the Parrish colliery.
Mr. Pugh was 38 years of age and leaves a wife and two little daughters. He is also survived by his father, Thomas H. Pugh; four brothers and one sister: David in Wales, Howell, Evan, Noah and Mrs. Harry Leeds of Plymouth. He was a member of Shawnee Lodge, I. O. O. F., and the Knights of Malta. He will be buried on Monday afternoon with interment in Shawnee Cemetery.
(Wilkes-Barre Record, 15 Feb 1913)
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