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Show Coal Mines Flooded in Pennsylvania. Pennsyl-vania. Hazleton, Pa., January 6.-Last nights rainstorm did a Vast amount of damage throughout this section of the anthracite coal region. The colleries of A. Pardee & Co. are completely drowned out, the water having entered the mines from a large creek, which burst into an old breast of the Laurel Hill workings, and poured steadily through thi3 opening from 12 o'clock last night until 6 o'clock this evening. Twenty-three miles (?) were drowned and all the pumps are submerged. Crystal Ridge, Sugar Loaf, Sandy Run, Andenried, Honeybrook and Stockton slopes are also flooded. The water has again broke into the Harleighand Eber-vale Eber-vale mines, whioh were recently flooded, and the situation is now more serious than before. be-fore. All the pumps are lost, and4he water is rising rapidly. It is impossible to say what the losses will aggregate, but it must necessarily be very heavy. |