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[[Start Page]] [[preprinted]] May, MONDAY, 10. 1897. [[/preprinted]] Tempt + 64[[degree symbol]] and Barometer 28.24 @ 7 [[superscript]] 3 [[/superscript]]/a " [[dittos for Temp]] + 66[[degree symbol]] " " [[dittos for: and Barometer]] 28.20 @ 6 pm Beautiful morn - Threatening this pm - Buck Mountain worked 9 hours today - Done poor this AM - Cars off track at 2nd bottom - #1 slope - tore out part of road- Had to hoist all coal to surface via #2 slope, thence over and up on breaker - Vulcan Colliery worked 10 hours - The fan & fixtures for fan draft plant at Vulcan arrived today - Have masons working at foundation - Will be ready about Thursday to erect same - [[End Page]] [[Start Page]] [[preprinted]] May, TUESDAY, 11. 1897. [[/preprinted]] Tempt + 64[[degree symbol]] and Barometer 28.38 @ 7 [[superscript]] 3 [[/superscript]]/a " [[ditto for: Temp]] + 68[[degree symbol]] ' ' [[dittos for: and Barometer]] 28.31 @ Beautiful day - somewhat threatening this PM Both Collieries worked 10 hours - Loaded our 3 days allotment these two days, (yesterday and today) Will be idle until next Monday - R.R. Co not running cars Here at New Boston, a dead poleander, man - about 33 yrs of age, was hauled out of the well on south side of road, nearly in center of patch- Sunday two weeks ago, a new plug hat was discovered floating in the well. It was fished out, but no one ever thought of the owner being at the bottom - Today at about 10.30 Am, Mrs John Cragg was "fishing" for a bucket, with a rope [[strikethrough]] and and [[/strikethrough]] with a hook attached after sometime [[strikethrough]] she ca [[/strikethrough]] the hook caught in something, and she pulled it up - discovered it to be a man - after trying some time with ropes, a ladder was substituted, and a man went down and tied a rope to him - He was pulled out awfully heavy - Proved to be Anton Konetscufski- worked at Morea - boarded at Hallas' - (N Boston) Had been at Morea for his pay on April 1st - Must have fallen down on Saturday night- Well is about 35 feet deep from surface down - 5 1/2' in diameter - walled with stone, - about 8' water - box on platform [[strikethrough]] on [[/strikethrough]] top platform 1 ft high, above surface [[strikethrough]] about [[/strikethrough]] 8' square - box about 2' high, 4' Square in center of platform, and centered with well - Man had gashes one on top, and one back of head- Lower lip torn 1" - Family with whom he had been boarding, say he was talking of going away - He went - Queer how he fell down - It seems that he would not strike sides by falling down - Must have went down head first - Undertaker took him to Mahanoy City - People have been drinking this water all along - composed of 10 parts spring water two of "miner" mineral water [[End Page]]
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