The Tragedy at the Schooner Mine
A miner is crushed in Whatcom, prompting local efforts to support his family in the East.
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Mr. Daniel Edwards, late of Plymouth, Pennsylvania, who has been employed at the Schooner mine during the past two weeks, was on Saturday last very badly crushed by the caving in upon him of a mass of coal while at work underground. His injuries, which consist of a somewhat general bruising of the body, are said to present a very unfavorable aspect, but the unfortunate sufferer is enduring them in a hopeful manner. The affair has excited deep sympathy for the man, as he has a family in the East dependent on him. All effort is being made to add to his comfort. He is under the care and treatment of Dr. Carpenter.
“The affair has excited deep sympathy for the man, as he has a family in the East dependent on him.”
Mining accidents were a constant, brutal reality of Washington's early industrial economy. Today, while coal mining has faded in the state, the dangerous labor conditions that once defined the Pacific Northwest's extraction industries continue to echo in debates over workplace safety and workers' compensation.
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