Peoria County IL Archives Obituaries.....Hancock, George May 21, 1896
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Fifteenth Annual Report of the State Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1896
On May 21, 1896, at The Blue Fly Mine, Pottstown, Peoria county, George Hancock, 
miner, aged 45, married, was fatally injured in a room he was going to start 
work in. The mine is a new one and is being opened up on the long wall system, a 
Jeffrey machine being used to undercut. Deceased, in company with Mr. Wantling, 
was sitting near the face of the room watching the machine and conversing with 
Mr. Wantling when he noticed a piece of soapstone hanging loose. He called Mr. 
Wantling’s attention telling him to move from under it. In a few minutes after 
deceased went right under it himself, when it fell, the edge of it striking him 
on the back just below the shoulders, severing the vertabrae. He was taken home 
and lingered until June 2d, and died, leaving a widow and six children, one of 
whom is able to work.

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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