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State of Michigan Mines and Mineral Statistics
by James B. Knight
Commissioner of Mineral Statistics
pub. 1895

     [p. 138]
     
     
     List of fatal accidents at the mines in Houghton county, from
      September 30, 1891 to September 30, 1892, giving date,
      person's name, place employed, and manner of accident.

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         DATE              NAME                 MINE          CAUSE OF ACCIDENT
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     Oct. 13, 1891 |  Thomas W. Waters      | Tamarack    | Fall of vein rock.
     Nov. 13, 1891 |  Stephen Sterbins      | Hecla       | Riding on skip
     Nov. 30, 1891 |  John Lockso           | Tamarack    | Blasted
     Nov. 30, 1891 |  Jacob Wamzen          | Hecla       | Caught by ascending skip
     Dec.  9, 1891 |  Olaf Hendrickson      | Tamarack    | Explosion of dynamite
     Dec.  9, 1891 |  Matthaas Flenk        | Tamarack    | Explosion
     Dec. 16, 1891 |  Albert Thomas         | Wolverine   | Suffocated
     Jan.  2, 1892 |  James Taylor          | Centennial  | Fell down stairs in rock house.
     Jan. 26, 1892 |  Wm. Goeshoe           | Calumet     | Struck by rock from dump car.
     Feb.  9, 1892 |  Michael Sheehan       | Atlantic    | Struck by car.
     Feb. 29, 1892 |  John Kurtitch         | Tamarack    | Struck by timber falling down shaft.
     Mar. 12, 1892 |  John Matthews         | Hecla       | Fell down mill.
     Mar. 26, 1892 |  Joseph Juilio         | Hecla       | Fall of vein rock.
     Apr. 11, 1892 |  Isaac K. Mackey       | Peninsula   | Explosion of dynamite and box of caps.
     June 25, 1892 |  Erick Saary           | Tamarack    | Pried down rock on himself.
     July 11, 1892 |  John Hanley           | Franklin    | Fall of hanging wall rock.
     July 13, 1892 |  Thomas Alatala        | Atlantic    | Struck by rock from blast.
     July 25, 1892 |  Richard Thomas        | Tamarack    | Fall of vein rock.
     Aug. 12, 1892 |  Matt Garien           | Atlantic    | Fall of earth in exploring pit.
     Sept. 5, 1892 |  Michael Sullivan      | Huron       | Blasted.
     Sept 29, 1892 |  Sylvester Ambrusitch  | Tamarack    | Fall of hanging rock.
     
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