Grundy County IL Archives Obituaries.....Murphy, Michael February 24, 1896
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Fifteenth Annual Report of the State Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1896
Michael Murphy, aged 34 years, was killed by falling rock in the Braceville Coal 
Company’s No. 4 mine. The deceased was employed as a miner, but his room having 
been driven the distance required, where the cross-entry was cutting it off, 
stopped mining in his room on the 22nd of February, and, as there was no other 
room ready for him to start in just then, he asked the night boss to let him 
work a few shifts on the night shift, and on the night of the 24th went in to do 
company work. The night boss told him to start brushing between the two last 
rooms on the third northeast entry, and at 11:45 p. m. Arthur Green, the night-
shift driver, went in to get his car, which was loaded with rook, and at that 
time he stated to the driver that he would have to go to the bottom and sharpen 
some picks. No one saw him from that time until Alfred Spiers, the fire boss, in 
going his rounds of the mine at 2 o’clock in the morning went down the entry to 
see how he was getting along. He found him lying dead under a rock 3x4 feet, 10 
inches thick. He had been cutting with his pick along the left side of the 
roadway, and on the right side a slip ran through the rock, and when about five 
inches of cutting had been done on the left side another slip started running to 
the right, which loosened the rock, and it must have fallen without warning. He 
left a widow and five children.

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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