Rock Island County IL Archives Obituaries.....Kehoe, John E June 9, 1896
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Fifteenth Annual Report of the State Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1896
On June 9, 1896, at Zadoc Wynn’s mine near Coal Valley, Rock Island county, John 
E. Kehoe, top laborer, aged 22, unmarried, was killed while attempting to place a 
piece of gas pipe across the top of the shaft to rest the water box on. The 
evidence shows that the engineer, Mr. Ziegler, was hoisting water out of the shaft 
by a box fastened under the cage and deceased was attending to the box as it came 
up, putting a piece of gas pipe across the shaft to rest the box on while it was 
being emptied and while pushing the pipe under the box the hoisting rope broke 
carrying deceased down the shaft a distance of 45 feet, killing him instantly.

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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