Will County IL Archives Obituaries.....Hoye, Chas April 13, 1896
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Fifteenth Annual Report of the State Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1896
April 13, 1896, Thomas Reilly and Chas. Hoye, aged respectively 27 and 22 years, 
both unmarried, were instantly killed by a fall of rock in the R shaft of the 
C., W. & V. Coal Company, at Braidwood, about 4 o’clock in the morning. The 
deceased were at work in the bottom of the shaft preparing to put in a sill 
timber in the bottom of which to place a set of timbers; two props were set up 
to the rock, close to the north end of the shaft; a piece of rock fell and 
knocked one of them out; the boss of the night shift; Wm. Hoye, just about that 
time came past them and told them to put up the prop again; he then left them 
and went into another part of the mine, and as none of the other men had seen 
them until the accident, it is supposed they were preparing to put up the prop, 
as they were ordered to do, when, without warning, a large mass of soapstone, 
measuring 9x4x3 ft. 6 in. thick fell on them. It was stated by one of the men 
called there to get them from under the rock that Chas. Hoye lived a few 
minutes. He was the only support of a widowed mother.

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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