FRANK MAZZOTTE
Arizona Republican Newspaper

August 24, 1902

Last week Frank Mazzotte, an Italian miner, was killed 
in the Copper Mountain under most unusual circumstances, 
says the Morenci Standard.  He fell through some planking 
a distance of not more than three feet and his fall, 
which could not have amounted to more than six feet in 
any case, was arrested by striking his abdomen upon the 
edge of the planking.  Ordinarily such a fall to a man 
hardEned by work would amount to nothing but Mazzotte was 
taken to the D.C. hospital and died during the night from 
the effects of his fall.  He leaves a famliy in Italy.  
The mine was closed on the afternoon ofthe funeral and a 
procession of fully two hundred, so far the largest ever 
seen in Morenci, followed the remains to the grave.  A 
general feeling of sorrow swept over the city,where 
Mazzotte seems to have been a great favorite.