Vermilion County IL Archives Obituaries.....Weaver, Isaac July 15, 1895
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Fifteenth Annual Report of the State Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1896
July 15, 1895, Isaac Weaver, aged 44 years, employed by Consolidated Coal Company, 
at their Number 4 miner Danville, Vermilion county, to attend the railroad coal 
chutes, in running a car of coal from the shaft to the chute, the car jumped the 
track. It had been raining that morning and the tipple was wet. The deceased took 
a piece of timber to use as a lever to lift the car on the track; it suddenly 
slipped and he fell off the tipple., a distance of eighteen feet; when he was 
found, his back was broken. He was taken home, where he died on July 31. The grade 
rail at the place where he fell off had been broken for some time previous to the 
accident. He left a widow and six children.


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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