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fKTH BITUMINOUS DISTRICT. 457<br />

No. 11. |.'i , [<br />

roof in the Eleanora No. 1 mine. He was drawing back a pillar and<br />

bad undermined a fall of coal and was on the upper side of pillar, cutting<br />

out a coal sprag, when a large piece of sand rock fell upon him.<br />

Upon investigation and upon examining the place, I found that he<br />

had not propped the place sufficiently for his own protection. This<br />

is another accident added to the list of those from gross carelessness<br />

upon the part of the victim himself.<br />

Ge<strong>org</strong>e Thompson was instantly killed on the evening of December<br />

20th in<br />

the Eleanora No. 2 mine, by being run over by a loaded<br />

trip of cars on haulage road in the 9th right heading.<br />

He, in violation<br />

of the mine rules, and in disobedience to the orders of the mine<br />

officials, jumped on the cars, and, in doing so, his head struck a cross<br />

timber, knocking him under the cars with the above result.

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