OBIT: Alexander PLUME, 1946, Confluence, Somerset County, PA 

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ALEXANDER PLUME

Alexander Plume Fatally Injured In His Coal Mine
Died After Directing His Rescue from Rock Fall Under Which He Was Pinned for 
Hours

  CONFLUENCE - Alexander Plume, 60, operator of a small house coal mine on his 
farm at Confluence, R.D., died several hours after he had directed his own 
rescue last Sunday afternoon from under a fall of rock in the mine.
  Dr. A. M. Uphouse, county coroner, said the man's death resulted from a 
crushed abdomen, ruptured kidney and fracture of the right leg.
  Mr. Plume entered the mine Sunday morning to replenish the dwindling stock of 
coal at his home.  When he failed to return to his home by the middle of the 
afternoon, his two young sons went in search of him.
  They found their father pinned under rocks which had fallen on him from the 
roof of the mine.  He was conscious, however, and gave his sons directions as 
they labored a half-hour to extricate him.
  Before his death, which occurred at 5:30 p.m., Mr. Plume informed members of 
his family that he had been trapped nearly three hours before his plight was 
discovered.  He said he did not scream for help because he knew that he could 
not be heard outside the mine.
  Funeral services were held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Plume home.  
Interment in the Jersey Cemetery was directed by Undertaker C. B. Humbert of 
Confluence.

Meyersdale Republican, February 14, 1946