Thanks to Ed Langley, Phoenix, AZ, for the following Luzerne County
extracts from the Mine Inspector Reports:
1872 Eastern District (Non-fatalities)
February 3, Michael McDonald, Eaton and Co. Mines, Archbald
April 24, John McDonell, Gipsey Grove Colliery
1877 Eastern District (Non-fatalities)
February 7, J. S. McDonald, Laurel Run Colliery, near Parson’s Stations
February 21, Patrick McDonald, 16, single, 0 children, Greenwood Colliery, Lackawanna Twp.
1877 Eastern District (Fatalities)
March 22, Thomas McDonald, 47, married, 7 orphans,
#10 Shaft, Pittston
1897 Third Anthracite District (Fatalities)
October 28, Patrick McDonald, 40, married, 2 orphans,
Babylon Shaft, Duryea
