LaSalle County IL Archives Obituaries.....Harcharik, George June 3, 1895
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Fifteenth Annual Report of the State Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1896
June 3, 1895, George Harcharik, aged 53 years, miner, employed by the Prairie 
Creek Coal Company, in the Otter Creek mine, two miles east of Streator, was 
fatally injured by a fall of rock in his working room No. 3, on the sixth east 
entry, at 3:30 p. m. The deceased and his son had just started to work in the 
room that morning; the son objected to work in the room owing to a roll or fault 
that was in the coal seam. The pit boss told them that he would pay them for 
room turning, if they would work in it; they then prepared a blast in the bottom 
coal, and shortly after firing the blast, they started to load a pit car with 
coal. The deceased was in the act of stooping under the top coal when a piece of 
rock 24x18 in., which had been loosened by the force of the blast, fell without 
warning, crushing him on the left side, injuring him internally, from which he 
died shortly after being taken home. He left a widow and eight children, three 
of whom are able to earn their own living. With precaution, after the blast was 
fired, this accident would not have happened.

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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