Vermilion County IL Archives Obituaries.....Sanders, Richard April 20, 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, 12:27 am Fifteenth Annual Report of the State Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1896 April 20, 1896, Richard Sanders, miner, aged 38 years, single, employed by Delaware Coal Company as a miner at their mine near Grape Creek, Vermilion county. The deceased was at work on a bench of coal in the third south entry when a fall of roof came on him, knocking him backwards breaking his back and otherwise injuring him. He lived four days after the accident. 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/vermilion/obits/s/sanders973nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ilfiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb