Bureau County IL Archives Obituaries.....Rovorock, George February 10, 1896
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Fifteenth Annual Report of the State Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1896
On February 10, 1896, at No. 2 shaft of the Spring Valley Coal Co., Spring Valley, 
Bureau county, George Rovorock, an Italian miner, aged 54, unmarried, was killed 
at the bottom of the shaft while waiting to be hoisted after his day’s work. He 
was in a sitting position between two timbers about four feet from the shaft, and 
while the cagers were cross-caging a trip of empty cars from the south to the 
north side of the shaft, the trip being being pulled by a mule team, jumped the 
track and caught deceased’s head between it and the timber, killing him instantly. 
Deceased had been told several times by the cager and others, to get to a more 
safe place, but being anxious to get on the cage as soon as he could, would not 
leave.

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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