LaSalle County IL Archives Obituaries.....Svoda, Matthew November 1895
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Fifteenth Annual Report of the State Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1896
Matthew Svoda, aged 45 years, employed by the Star Coal Company in their No. 2, 
at Kangley, was instantly killed by a fall of slate and soapstone in his room at 
12:15 p. m. The deceased and his son were taking out the pillars of rooms 38 and 
39 in the twenty-second right entry, and at the time stated, had fired a blast 
in room 39. He went in just after the blast was fired to find out how the coal 
was loosened, when a fall of slate caught him and killed him. A slip or the 
dividing line between the black slate and soapstone was lying at an angle of 30 
degrees, though the pillar props were set to the soapstone side of the slip, but 
none under the black slate, and when the blast was fired it removed the coal 
from under the slate. It is supposed he was looking for a pick when the fall 
caught him. Mike Clugha and Andrew Droviskie, who were the first to go there, 
stated that the deceased went back in his room too soon after firing the blast. 
He left a widow and four 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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