From the Lykens Standard, May 25, 1906:
CARS DASH DOWN SLOPE, INJURING THREE MINERS
Saturday night while a car and timber truck containing 19 men were waiting at the bottom of No. 4 Slope, Short Mountain Colliery, to be hoisted to the top, they heard and unusual noise above them and fearing that something was wrong one of the men exclaimed, “look out!” at the same time jumping out of the car, when the others followed in a general rush for a place of safety. The side hooks of the two cars on the knuckle at the top of the slope snapped off and the cars dashed to the bottom. All the men below managed to escape but Stan Yabesynski and Chester Yabesynski, and George Diskaunt, the two former receiving slight injuries, while the latter sustained a dislocation of the elbow, several severe lacerations about the hear and concussion of the brain. He was taken to the Pottsville Hospital, where he is doing as well as can be expected. All the men had a narrow escape, and it is miraculous that not more were injured.
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From the Lykens Standard, June 1, 1906:
DISKAUNT RUNS AWAY FROM THE POTTSVILLE HOSPITAL
George Diskaunt, who was seriously injured at the bottom of No. 4 Slope, Short Mountain Colliery, on the night of May 19th [1906] and taken to the Pottsville Hospital for treatment, escaped from that institution Saturday evening. Hatless, his head and arm in bandages, the conductor of a train which he attempted to board at Pottsville, recognized him as a patient at the hospital and told him to return to that institution, as he could not ride on his train. On Sunday Wasyl Kopchok of Tower City, a friend of Diskaunt, noticed him at that place, and looked after him. During Saturday night, all through the rain, Diskaunt walked without a hat from Pottsville to Tower City, a distance of about 25 miles. Kopchok gave him a hat, and placed hi on the Sunday evening train for this place [Lykens]. He was met at the depot by several friends who conducted him to the home of Andrew Barder, with whom he boarded. His excuse for leaving the hospital is that they were too strict there. He seems none the worse for his long tramp through Saturday night’s rain.
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