Mercer County IL Archives Obituaries.....Contuley, Michael February 17, 1900
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Nineteenth Annual Report of the Illinois Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1900
February 17, 1900, Michael Contuley, company man, aged 29 years, married, leaves 
a widow and four children in Austria, had his thigh broken, and received severe 
internal injuries by falling down the shaft, 100 feet, at the Empire Coal 
Company’s mine, No. 1, Gilchrist, Mercer county. He died from the injuries 
sustained, eleven days after the accident. Deceased was employed on the night 
shift; part of his duty was to send hay down the shaft, with which to feed the 
mules in the mine. He was pushing a car load of hay onto the cage at the lower 
landing, but by some mistake, pushed the car into the shaft where there was no 
cage to receive it. As a matter of course, he followed it into and down the 
shaft, falling on top of the trussed hay at the bottom of the shaft; this broke 
the fall somewhat, and prevented his being killed instantly.

Additional Comments:
Nineteenth Annual Report of the Illinois Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1900, Also 
the Second Annual Report of the Illinois Free Employment Offices; David Ross, 
Secretary. Springfield, ILL: Phillips Bros, State Printers; 1901

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