Christian County IL Archives Obituaries.....Clements, William June 2, 1900
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Nineteenth Annual Report of the Illinois Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1900
June 2, 1900, William Clements, aged 17 years, was employed as assistant cager 
at the Taylorville Coal Co’s mine, at Taylorville. It was the duty of deceased 
to sprag up the cars near the shaft bottom, so as to have them ready to put on 
the cage, but he neglected to take this precaution at this time, and as the trip 
stopped of itself he failed to secure them so they would not run down to the 
shaft bottom, and after running a car on the cage and signaling the engineer to 
start, he and his father, who was the cager, waited until the engineer started, 
which was a few moments, and during this time the car had started down towards 
the shaft bottom, and as they did not hear it it struck both of them just as the 
engineer lifted the cage off of the bottom, knocking the boy onto the cage in 
such a manner that his head was caught between the cage and the curbing, cutting 
the top of his head off, and knocking his father into the sump, injuring him 
severely.

Additional Comments:
Nineteenth Annual Report of the Illinois Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1900, Also 
the Second Annual Report of the Illinois Free Employment Offices; David Ross, 
Secretary. Springfield, ILL: Phillips Bros, State Printers; 1901

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