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[[preprinted]] May, WEDNESDAY, 12. 1897 [[/preprinted]]

Tempt + 60[[degree symbol]] and Barometer 28.24 @ 7 [[superscript]] 3 [[/superscript]]/a

" [[dittos for: Tempt]] +  ' ' [[dittos for: and Barometer]] 28.18 @ 6 PM

Rained nearly all the time to day - showers -

Both collieries idle - R.R.Co not running cars - 

Usual squads repairing and making improvements - Laying rails on #2 slope, B. Mtn, from 4 to 5th Lift - Also " " [[dittos for: laying rails]] new bottom, 2nd Lift - Timbering the 3rd East is still going on - 12 men have been working on it, (per day) ever since squeeze was noticed - Men bratticing up old breasts in Vulcan 1st lift - Vein, to catch the culm - Many of the breasts are filled  

We are making iron closets in B Mtn breaker; wooden closets are being removed - 

A new 4" line of pipe has been laid from #1 Well at Vulcan to Boilers - 

"Rose" mule, one in a team of [[blank space]], slipped while coming out of 2nd West at Buck Mountain, with loaded trip - The first car, [[strikethrough]] which [[/strikethrough]] run up and bumped her, [[strikethrough]] had the [[/strikethrough]] - A piece of sheet iron extended out of the car, and this cut the mule - Would not get up. Loaded it in car, and sent it out side - Outside the mule got up and walked to the stable - apparently it is all right - 

It is supposed that the man who was found in the well here [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] yesterday, was murdered, and then was thrown down -  The doctor who examined him, said there was no water in his lungs - very little at his heart, must have been dead before going down in water -  skull was fractured -

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[[preprinted]] May, THURSDAY, 13. 1897. [[/preprinted]]

Tempt +60 [[degree symbol]] and Barometer 28.15 @ 7 [[superscript]] 3 [[/superscript]]/a

" [[ditto for: Tempt]] +64[[degree symbol]] '  '[[dittos for: and Barometer]] 28.11 @ 11 [[underlined]] 3 [[/underlined]] Am

" [[ditto for: Tempt]] +63 '  ' [[dittos for: and Barometer]] 28.20 @ 6 Pm

Raining - Commenced early last night - Coming down in sheets, from 9 am to - Cleared up a little at 2 P.m. Raindrops at times -

Both Collieries idle - RR Co not running cars - Everything quiet - very few men working at the collieries - 

Sturtevants men (2) (the people from whom we have contracted for the fan draft plant at Vulcan, where at the Colliery today - Elmer met them there this Pm - Fan has not yet arrived - They will remain [[strikethrough]] so as [[/strikethrough]] and put up the plant - 

Sun peeping out - 6 PM -

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