Macoupin County IL Archives Obituaries.....O'Neil, James January 8, 1896 ************************************************ 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 15, 2012, 12:44 am Fifteenth Annual Report of the State Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1896 James O’Neil, aged 51 years, widower, left five children, three of whom are dependent, occupation miner, was killed at 5:20 p. m., January 8, 1896, at the mine of the Green Ridge Coal Company, Girard, Macoupin county. O’Neil and his partner were about to light two shots in the room at the same time; O’Neil put his lamp to the squib and remarked that it would not light; he again put his lamp to the squib, when the shot immediately exploded. 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/macoupin/obits/o/oneil984nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ilfiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb