Has been created on this latter account that some operators in Pennsylvania have arranged for a
The more important fact possibly is the discovery that some mines heretofore supposed not toīe gaseous have developed a dangerous condition when worked with open lamps. Operators against occurrences of this sort Is more danger of mine explosions in the winter than in the summer, and naturally cautioning the Two more mine explosions have occurred within the last week, emphasizing the fact that there As result of a ten days' investigation into alleged violation of the mining laws of Illinois, a Franklin county grand jury, in session at Benton, has returned four indictments against the Zeigler Coal company, whose mine was the scene a short time ago of an explosion that cost the lives of a half hundred miners. Illinois Grand Jury Decides Mining Laws Have Been Violated There was noĮvidence showing that the explosion was due to crime instead of accident. Legal proceedings may be instituted against the Zeigler Coal company for violation of the law. Pumped into the mine and that the mine was not properly inspected. Their opinion that there was faulty construction of the mine, inasmuch as the proper quanity of air could not be Report of the state mining board and mine examiners, who investigated the explosion, in which, they gave as Gillespie to Zeigler to investigate the explosion at Joseph Letter's coal mine was owing to portions of the It is learned that the trip of Attorney Guneral Stead and Assistant Attorney General Officials Make Statements on Zeigler Mine and These Cause Inquiry The Urbana Daily Courier, Urbana, Illinois See : The Zeigler Disaster, January 10, 1909Įxplosion at Bell & Zoller Coal Company Mine, See : Explosion at Zeigler Coal Company Mine, April 3, 1905 The mine had gas problems 50 men died in a 1905 explosion, and in 1909, two explosions killed 29 men. The last production was reported in December 1948. The legal description lists this as : Franklin County - Township 7 South, Range 1 East, Section 13, NE SW SEĪn underground mine at a depth of 392 feet to 420 feet with a coal seam of 7 feet to 25 feet in thickness. Industries in which they have been employed are shut down.
Most of these people coming in have no experience in mines, but the It is expected that the influx of strangers to theĬoal fields will continue to increase. Work in Franklin county, one mine putting on 18 of these men. Several miners from the West Virginia coal fields, where the union men are locked out, have recently found To use any of them, and operators say there are more applicants right now than at any time in years. One mine has had 75 applications from men and boys, but was unable Hundreds are flocking to the Southern Illinois coal field fro the industrial centers where MEN OUT OF WORK FLOCKING TO ILLINOIS COAL MINESīENTON, Jan. Marion Semi-Weekly Leader, Marion, Illinois 8, Wilmington Star Mining Company - Township 7 South, Range 2 East Section 25 1, Carroll & Franklin Counties - Township 6 South, Range 3 East Section 35ġ909 - Possum Ridge Coal Mine, Southern Illinois Coal & Coke Company - Township 7 South, Range 2 East Section 33ġ910 - Wilmington Star Coal Mine No. Rend Coal Company -ġ909 - Hanaford Coal Mine No. Rend Coal Company - Township 6 South, Range 2 East Section 4ġ908 - Weaver Coal Mine No. 1, Hart-Williams Coal Company - Township 6 South, Range 3 East Section 30ġ907 - Rend Coal Mine No.
18, Dering Coal Company - Township 7 South, Range 3 East Section 8ġ907 - Hart-Williams Coal Mine No. Township 7 South, Range 1 East Section 33ġ907 - Dering Coal Mine No. 2, Big Muddy & Carterville Mining Company.
1, Zeigler District Colliery Company - Township 6 South, Range 1 East Section 24ġ907 - Big Muddy & Carterville Coal Mine No. 1, United Coal Corporation - Township 6 South, Range 2 East Section 30ġ906 - North Coal Mine No. 1, Big Muddy & Carterville Mining Company - Township 7 South, Range 1 East Section 28ġ906 - United Coal Mine No. 1, Benton Coal Company - Township 6 South, Range 3 East Section 19ġ905 - Franklin Coal Mine, Franklin County Construction - Township 5 South, Range 2 East Section 19ġ906 - Big Muddy Coal Mine No. 1, Zeigler Coal Company - Township 7 South, Range 1 East Section 13ġ905 - Benton Coal Mine No. 11, Dering Coal Company - Township 7 South, Range 3 East Section 18ġ904 - Zeigler Coal Mine No. King - Township 5 South, Range 3 East Section 16ġ892 - King Coal Mine (Strip Mine), Aaron King - Township 5 South, Range 3 East Section 21ġ904 - Dering Coal Mine No. Early Coal Mines - Opening prior to 1911 18ġ889 - King Coal Mine (Strip Mine), William A.
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