Grundy County IL Archives Obituaries.....Rossetta, Peter June 18, 1896
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Fifteenth Annual Report of the State Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1896
June 18, 1896, Peter Rossetta, miner, aged 36 years, was instantly killed by 
falling rock in longwall working place in the Diamond No. 4 mine of the 
Wilmington Mining and Manufacturing Company, in Grundy county. The mine was not 
in operation this day, but the deceased and his partner had gone in to get coal 
loose for the next day’s work. He had taken the coal down on the left side of 
the roadway for a distance of ten feet along the face of the room; several 
breaks were in the roof and came together at this point. It is supposed that the 
deceased was in the act of putting in a prop to the roof where the two breaks 
met, which was the light end of the rock, when, without any warning, a large 
piece of rock, 9 ft. 6 in. x 3 ft. 2 in., fell on him, completely covering him; 
his partner then went some distance and secured help to remove the rock, but it 
was found that he was dead. Had the prop been put in five feet from the point 
towards the road, the rock could ___ have fallen. He left a widow and five 
children in the old country.

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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