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Exhibits in Connection With Brief of The City of Scranto, Intervenor, Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon, No. 22-549 (U.S., Argued Nov. 14, 1922)

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Exhibits in Connection With Brief of The City of Scranto, Intervenor, Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon, No. 22-549 (U.S., Argued Nov. 14, 1922)

Exhibits in connection with Brief of the City of Scranto, Intervenor, Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon, No. 22-549 (U.S., argued Nov. 14, 1922)

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No. 549 October Term, 1922. : In the Supreme Court of the United States: Pennsylvania Coal Company Plaintiff-in-Error, vs. . i H. J. Mahon and Margaret Craig Mahon . Defendants-in-Error. In Error to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Exhibits in connection with Brief of the City of Scranton, Intervenor This envelope contains exact copies of the photographic representations of conditions in the mine cave areas which were in the hands of every representative i and senator of the Pennsylvania Legislature during the hearings on the Kohler Bill. PHILIP V. MATTES, City Solicitor, For the City of Scranton. © The above pictures are typical of mine cave havoc in Scranton, Pa., where the people are insisting upon remedial legistation in order to protect their lives and their property. ‘The World Theatre, Scranton, Pa., wrecked by a mine cave shortly after the audience had been dis- missed for the night. Had this occurred shortly before the time of the collapse of the building, hun. dreds of lives would have been sacrificed to the greed of mining operators, now seeking to avoid reme- dial mine cave legislation. ‘ THE PROSSER FAMILY HOME, NoRTH SUMNER AVENUE, SCRANTON, PA. H imbering being done to save the home of Mr. Prosser at stranton after a mine cave had dropped the surface beneath the property. This is within a hundred feet of where Robert Warburton, aged 12 years, lost his life when the surface dropped and he was engulfed in a deep mine cave pit. | z i . : NO. 16 PUBLIC SCHOOL, SCRANTON, PA. Wrecked by a mine cave on August 29, as school was to open a deci later. Had this occurred a few days later, oarhen 5€0 pupils were assembled for classes, a panic would have resulted. The total damage of this cave is estimated at $59,01 ro HOME ON RIPPLE STREET, SCRAN'ON, PA., WRECKED BY MINE CAVE Another family driven into the street as a result of a mine cave such as menaces the life of. the people in the anthracite region. SCRANTON FAMILIES DRIVEN INTO THE STREET BY MINE CAVE Scene along Robinson Street, West Scranton, where many ," have been wrecked hy ruthless mining operations. WHAT A FIRE TRUCK, RESPONDING TO AN ALARM, JUST MISSED f While responding to a fire alarm, fighting apparatus into this _ these firefighters, ‘liam Frey, of Taylor, Ha. near Seranton, Pa., a truck driver, just missed dropping the fire foot pit on a main thoroughfare. Quick action on the part of the driver saved the lives of tu FRONT oF FOUR-FAMILY Boman COLLAPSES Ag RESULT oF CAVE i Of a mine cave at L o'clock in the morning, driving alt occupants A concrete block apartment in Seranton, Pa,, collapses as a resul: into the street, ONE OF SOUTH SCRANTON’S Meena PLANTS WRECKED XX i 2 2 SEDBIGo a A mine cave almost completely wrecked this big industrial plant i South Scranton. The property damage was great and many were thrown out of employment. | LADDER FROM THIRD STORY WINDOW SAVED THESE LIVES a RES OD, OTS Bee \ = iin When the home of Mr. and Mrs. Buckley, Ross Avenue, Scranton, dropped into a mine cave at an early hour in the morning, they reached the surface by the means of a ladder from the attic window before flames destroyed the building and all of their possessions in the pit beneath. They saved their lives, but lost THEIR ALL. Surface ee Home ‘ THE FORERUNNER OF RUIN \ > : F \ a i P L SOO ae i 4 fs F ls 1 lh a { ‘ b j le le \ Mines Mt ti nyt Crear a > a is) a g = < S z & 2 3 a 2 = = ° =x ot SI < a a a > = 4 i] = & ete ate ee csan einen | because of a mine cave that wrecked their home, This Scranton, 'Pa., family were driven into the street iu Ry, West Lackawanna Avenue, Scranton, Pa, Property eo, is building hag since collapsed into a pile‘of wree i ' KED BY ne EXPLOSION FOLLOWING MINE CAVE HOUSER PROPERTY WREC) x Theater, Scranton, Pa. he was demolished by an explosion’ of 38 following a mine cave ‘phis property nearly adjoins the Pau and the result thereof, a few minutes aiter the theater audience had been dismissed. x tan MINE CAVES The last resting place of a well known Scranton, Pa., woman, whose grave was torn open, a few weeks after burial, by a mine cave, in Cathedral Cemetery, where hundreds of bodies have been dropped into the mine beneath, The casket is shown in the pit, torn asunder, and the hand of the corpse is seen protruding from the burial case. LO nat

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