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In Fairmont:
R.L. Fleming, who was one of the rescuing party at Monongah, is confined to his home by an injured knee, having fallen across a loose wire in the mine. (FWV 12.26.07 pg. 5)
In Monongah:
“Many letters bearing Christmas greetings were received by the leaders in the relief work at Monongah.” (FWV 12.26.07 pg. 8)
“Mrs. Ruckman has received several dozen letters and two from Michigan expressed much sympathy for little Faustina Davia, the ten-year-old girl who is turned housekeeper and guardian, since the loss of her father in the mines. Mrs. Ruckman was requested to turn the enclosures over to this little girl of whom the parties had read in the newspapers, provided others were not more in need of the relief.” (FWV 12.26.07 pg. 8)
“Mrs. Ruckman said there are even worse cases, one of which she cited in Mrs. Kate Trode, an American woman, whose husband was lost in the mines and not yet found or if found has been buried with the unidentified. She has four little children, the oldest six years, the youngest a month old, and she has nothing at all to go on.” (FWV 12.26.07 pg. 8)
At the mines in Monongah:
“M. Jaques Caffauel and M. Dumaine the French experts who are here examining the Monongah mines Nos 6 and 8, commenced their work…Assistant General Manager Frank Haas of the Fairmont Coal Company, and Chief Engineer John Gordon Smith, were with them and aided them in every possible way. “ (FWV 12.27.07 – pg. 8)
‘The main heading of No 8 was explored and places where gas would most likely accumulate were free from the substance.” (FWV 12.27.07 – pg. 8)
“Mr. Caffauel who made a thorough examination of the mine at Courriers where 1,100 miners met death on March 10, 1906, said that in all probability the explosion…was due to dust.” (FWV 12.27.07 – pg. 8)
In Grafton:
2 foreign miners are killed by a B&O freight train at Newburg. The men worked in the mine near Newburg and were walking along the track to their homes after work. They were run down by the train which came up behind them and which for some reason they failed to hear. The engine and several cars passed over the men before the train was brought to a stop and both bodies were ground to pieces when picked up by the crew. (FWV 12.27.07 pg. 5)
At the Darr mines in PA:
“The bodies of three McKeesport men who met death in the Darr mine disaster will be shipped to McKeesport for interment today or tomorrow. The names of the men have not been given. They are related to John Totli, of Pittsburgh, who, with Rev. Father Kalmon Kovatz of McKeesport, identified the bodies.” (PDP 12.27.07 pg. 1)
“A jury was sworn in today by Coroner C.A. Wynn to conduct an inquest into the disaster. It is composed of the following well-known residents of Smithton: (PDP 12.27.07 pg. 1)
“The supposition that Clark Adams, the wealthy prodigal of Shamokin, was in the mine, has been proved to be correct by the finding of his dead body. Adams had wealthy parents but worked as a day laborer. There existed a strong friendship between him and Superintendent Kelvington. Word has been sent to his home in Shamokin.” (PDP 12.27.07 pg. 1)
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