Excerpt from Sixth Biennial Report of the State Inspector of Coal Mines of the State of Colorado for the Years 1893 and 1894 During the year 1893 there were miners and mine laborers employed in the mines. During the year there occurred forty-six fatal accidents, including the twenty-four in the disaster of January 3, 1894, at the King mine. There were 130 non-fatal accidents reported to this office. Most of them were caused by fall of rock or coal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.