9:30 am
Inside #8
The DePetris brothers finish loading their 1st car and being taking it out to the main line. (Inquiry) ◊
Dan Dominico is working alone nearby. (Inquiry)
Inside #6
Will Jenkins arrives to 4th left but finds that the horse in question does not need a new shoe and begins out of the mine. (Inquiry) ◊
10:00 am
At the mines:
All day shift workers, at least those who are coming to work today, have arrived and are at work. (News, Inquiry)
In East Monongah:
Frank Morris is in his office at the Company Store. (Inquiry)
George Peddicord is in the supply house, located on the opposite side of the river from the mine, collecting more chain buckets. (Inquiry)
John Talbott is working in the shipping office between the company store and main offices. (Inquiry)◊
Inside #6
Will Jenkins is on his way out of the mine and back to the blacksmith shop when he meets Charlie Wise on his way out. They are about a half mile in #6 and Wise was going down the heading, deeper into the mine. (Inquiry) ◊
10:10 am
Outside #6:
Will Jenkins exits the mine and heads back to the blacksmith shop to start shoeing another horse. (Inquiry) ◊
In East Monongah:
H.L. Sloan is on the hill cleaning coal cars at Mine #2, across the river and “right in front of #6”. (Inquiry)
Outside #8
Otto Smith is out on the tipple. (Inquiry)
Inside #6
At the bottom of the slope, the coupler connects a train of between 15-19 fully loaded, 3-ton coal cars onto the wire rope of the wench and, using modern electrical systems, signals Ed Fry in the engine house to start the wench and pull up the first haul of the day. (McAteer, Inquiry)◊
Outside #6
In the engine house, Ed Fry receives the electric light signal from the bottom of #6 slope and pulls the winch engine arm to begin hauling the train of cars from the bottom, up the slope, across the trestle, and to the tipple on the opposite side of the river. (McAteer, Inquiry)◊
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