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Swallowed Up A Town

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Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
September
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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Lofty, Sept. 6.- The little mining town of Scotc' valley, in Lackawanna county near 1 plnce, was swallowed up last night iu uue of tbe most complete mine cave-ins ever known in this región. The neme of dis ster was on tbe slope of Mount Lookout, the score of bonses comprising tbe hamlet lieiuK at the mouth of tbe baft of the Mount Lookout colliery. The wildest excitemenJprevails throughout tbe región, and details are f ragmentary. It in kuown, however, ttiat tbe dozen houses on either eide of tbe princi pal street of tbe hamlet are completely swallowed np in tbe gaping hole and notbing can be seen of tbe otber buildings of the town but the roofs,gables and chimneys. It is impossible to state accurately the number of fatalities, or if there are any. Rescuing parties are now exertinc; every means to release the occupante of the eKiilfed dwellings. One of the buried houses bas Mkeu fire. Tbe cave-in was caused by the giving woy of timher supports in the workingsof the colliery. The inhabitants of the hamlet were statled by rumbling and reports like falling rock in the caverns of the mine many hundreds of feet below them. Report was followedby report, and accompanied by other tremors, and tbe village sank out of sight in the gapiug cavity. Meanwhite some fifty miners were imprisoned iu the colliery. They had been at work in another portion of the mine, and all means of exit had been completely wiped out by the cave-in. James Perrin, one of the oldest of the miners. cot the men together, and started to lead them up through a tunnel, which had been used as an air shaft, but which leads to the snrface througu a series of steep slopen. The rescuing party on the surface had made an attempt to cut a passage through the mass of debris which blocked the main entrance. Failing in this, some of the more daring of the reseuers came into this passage and came to where the imprisoced miners were struggling upward. The men were carried to the surface, where agreatcrowd of excited, panic-Rtricken people were awaiting them. Up to 9 o'clock last night all the persons wbo could be found bave been taken from the mins, although the full roll of those to be accounted for cannot be prepared at this writing.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News