LaSalle County IL Archives Obituaries.....Cave, John W December 30, 1895 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Deb Haines http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00003.html#0000719 July 14, 2012, 11:08 pm Fifteenth Annual Report of the State Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1896 December 30, 1895, John W. Cave, miner, aged 28 years, single, was fatally injured at 4 p. m. in the C., W. & V. Coal Company’s No. 2 shaft, two miles east of Streator. The deceased and his father were at work on the night No. 2, on first east entry on the south side of the shaft. This entry was turned off at thirty-six feet from the shaft bottom, and on the north side another entry running east was turned off at a distance of twenty-seven feet from this entry, three rooms were driving south, and in the third room John Sanders and Andrew Malleck had prepared a blast in the top coal, and, when they were tamping their blast, they rapped on the coal as a signal to the men in the other entry, whose rooms were driving south of the entry on the south side of the shaft. They received an answer from another miner, and at this time the deceased and his father were standing in the opening of their own room, and remarked to Patrick McLange, who had just rapped on the coal, that the other room was very near being holed. They had just moved their tool-box and dinner pails from a point twelve feet back on the entry into their own room. They supposed the shot in the opposite room was at the point where they had just moved their tools; thinking they were safe, they sat down to eat their lunch, when the blast in the opposite room was fired and shot in a direct line with where John W. Cave was sitting, striking him on the left side of the head. He died before reaching home. 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 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/lasalle/obits/c/cave940nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ilfiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb