Shelby County IL Archives Obituaries.....Stonebuerner, Fred August 27, 1895
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Fifteenth Annual Report of the State Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1896
Fred Stonebuerner, aged 28 years, married, left a widow and three children, 
occupation laborer, was asphyxiated by black damp on August 27, 1895, at the 
local mine of S. L. Flanders, Shelbyville, Shelby county. The mine is located 
near a brickyard operated by Flanders. The mine had not been operated for 
several months. Once a week the water was hoisted with a barrel. At the time of 
the accident, Stonebuerner and Flanders were at the top of the shaft. 
Stonebuerner was attending the gin and dumping the barrel. The barrel stuck in 
the sump. Stonebuerner slid down the rope, kicked the barrel to loosen it, and 
shouted to hoist up quickly, that the air was bad. When the barrel was hoisted a 
few feet, he fell back from it into the shaft and was suffocated. The shaft was 
sunk during the previous summer. It was thirty feet deep, and had no separate 
partitions for intake and return air. On inspection, a light was extinguished 
fifteen feet from the surface.

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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