LaSalle County IL Archives Obituaries.....Szaych, Michael October 22, 1895
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Fifteenth Annual Report of the State Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1896
October 22, 1895, Michael Szaych, aged 65 years, married, employed by the 
LaSalle County Carbon Coal Company, in their Rockwell mine, at LaSalle was 
killed. About 5 p. m. a cage load of men had just been signalled to be hoisted 
to the top. Just as the cage was slowly rising from the bottom, the deceased 
came running towards the cage on the opposite side from where the cager was 
standing at the signal, and throwing a pick he carried into an empty pit car, he 
rushed forward and attempted to get on the cage. A miner, Edward Timm, who was 
on the cage, called to him in his own language, to keep back that the cage was 
signalled away to the top, but he took no notice of the men calling to him, but 
made an effort to get on the cage, and as the cage at that time was raised about 
12 inches from the bottom, his foot caught on the bottom of the cage, throwing 
him face forward into the cage. The cager at once gave the signal to stop the 
cage, which the engineer did, but was too late. The deceased was caught between 
the cage and shaft timbers and died one hour and forty minutes after the 
accident. He left a widow and five grown 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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