Bureau County IL Archives Obituaries.....Guest Jr, Joseph December 5, 1895
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Fifteenth Annual Report of the State Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1896
December 5, 1895, Joseph Guest, Jr., aged 20 years, unmarried, was killed by 
falling down No. 2 shaft of the Spring Valley Coal Co., Spring Valley, Bureau 
county. Deceased had been working all night, and came up on the west cage with 
nine others about 5 o’clock a. m. When he stepped off the cage at the upper 
landing, he turned to the left and walked into the east chamber of the shaft, 
falling a distance of 342 feet. The gate on the east chamber of the shaft being up 
about five and one-half feet, leaving the chamber unprotected. The shaft being the 
upcast, a cloud of steam was hanging over it, making it difficult for the men to 
see their way from the cage in the dark. There were no lights around the top, nor 
no man to safely see the men off the cages, as required by law.

Additional Comments:
Fifteenth Annual Report of the State Bureau of Labor Statistics, Coal in Illinois, 
1896, Containing the Thirteenth Annual Reports of the State Inspectors of Mines; 
George A Schilling, Secretary. Springfield, ILL: Phillips Bros., State Printers; 
1897

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