Woodford County IL Archives Obituaries.....Lisiesicki, George April 29, 1896
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Fifteenth Annual Report of the State Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1896
On April 29, 1896, at Chicago & Minonk Coal & Tile Co.’s mine, at Minonk, Woodford 
county, George Lisiesicki, a Polish miner, aged 43, married, was killed by a fall 
of rock in his room. He had been working at the lower end of his room, and came to 
the road head to mine a little, while his “buddy” finished loading a car, 
preparatory to going home, when a piece of rock fell without warning, killing him 
instantly. The rock weighed about 2,500 pounds. It was exposed on two sides by 
“slips” running into each other at right angles. Deceased leaves a widow and three 
children, all dependent.

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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