OBIT: Joseph STELLER, 1913, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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Steller, Joseph

Miners Killed by Fall of Rock at Jenners - Coroner Kimmell investigated the 
deaths of Tony Peddy and Joseph Steller, two miners killed one day last week by 
the fall of a large rock in the Jenners Mines of the Consolidated Coal Company 
and decided that an inquest was not necessary, the affair being purely of an 
accidental nature. Peddy and Steller had set a number of props in the room in 
which they were working, but the weight of the rock caused one of the props to 
slip and the huge mass, weighing many tons, came down on them, crushing both men 
almost to a pulp. Peddy was 24 years of age and (had?) two children. Steller was 
22 years of age and unmarried.

Meyersdale Commercial, Oct. 23, 1913