Grundy County IL Archives Obituaries.....Corrello, James November 1895
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Fifteenth Annual Report of the State Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1896
James Corrello, aged 45 years, miner, employed by the Big Four Wilmington Coal 
Company, No. 2 shaft, near Coal City, was instantly killed by a fall of rock. He 
and his brother were at work mining coal in room 54 and he was getting the loose 
coal from the left side of the room. His brother sounded the room with his pick 
and said it was all right. A row of props were set along the line of the face of 
the room, three and one-half feet from the coal, with the cap pieces placed 
parallel with the line of the breakers in the roof; a slip on the edge of the 
props was in the roof and when the coal was taken down another slip was cleared 
close on the face of the coal, which continued along the face of the room for a 
distance of 11 feet. The deceased was passing coal to his brother, when, without 
warning, a large rock 11 feet long and 21 inches deep by 26 inches, fell and 
killed him. The placing of two props under this rock would have prevented the 
accident. Andrew Sloan, who was the first to go there, stated that two props 
would have been sufficient to sustain the roof. Deceased left a widow and three 
children.

[Note: This entry occurred between November 7, 1895 and the next dated entry on 
December 28, 1895.]

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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