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Twenty-Fourth Annual Report Coal Mines in the state of West Virginia, U.S.A.
for the year ending June 30, 1906
James W. Paul, Chief Mine Inspector, Charleston
Charleston: The Tribune Printing Company, 1907.

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Fatal Accidents, for the year ending June 30th, 1906.
Preston County, pages 213-214.
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Poe, J.     (American; Married; 5 children)

     July 20, 1905; died July 23, 1905. J. Poe, Victoria No. 2 Mine, was 
     killed and two other men injured by a gas explosion. The following is 
     the report of the District Mine Inspector: The main heading is going to 
     the rise and gives off considerable gas, also the air course. The face of 
     the heading and air course was something over 50 feet ahead of the air. 
     They use punchers in these places and the power used is compressed air, 
     and when the machines were not in use they use the compressed air to 
     ventilate these places. They also use air to pump water out of the mine. 
     From the best information I could get, they start this pump before 5 
     o'clock in the morning. The fire boss told me he was in these places a 
     little after 5 o'clock on the morning of the accident. The air was shut 
     off at that time, but he found very little gas in these places at that time, 
     and so marked the mine 0. K., supposing the air would be turned on 
     again soon. But from the information I got, the air was not turned on 
     again until 7 o'clock, about the time the men went in the mine to work. 
     It is my opinion that when the air was turned on it drove the gas out of 
     these places in a body and the men walked into it with their open lights 
     and fired it, for they were back at the break-through, over 50 feet from 
     the face, when they fired the gas. When I got there the air was on and 
     f could not find any gas in these places. I shut the air off, and in 35 
     minutes I could find gas in the air course with the safety lamp, and in 40 
     minutes gas showed in the safety lamp in the heading. They are not now 
     depending on compressed air for ventilation. 
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Shrout, Edward     (American; 8 yrs exper; age 34; Married)

     April 20, 1906; died April 21, 1906. Edward Shrout, Tunnelton No. 2 
     Mine, after firing a shot in bone coal, walked under where shot had been 
     fired, stooped to get a pick that had been partly covered over by the coal 
     when a piece of bone coal dropped from the roof, striking him on the back 
     and doubling him together, face forward. 
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Stromalae, John     (Polish; 6 weeks exper; age 38; Married; 2 children)

     May 29, 1906. John Stromalae, Austin No. 2 Mine, was caught under a 
     heavy fall of draw slate at face of third left air course. Did not appear 
     to be hurt much, but died in half an hour. 

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