by GrundyILGW | Feb 6, 2015 | Coal Mining
The following men have died in a variety of mining accidents in the coal mines of Grundy County Illinois. Biographic details of their accident are included in each report. Dominico Ariano July 16 Dominico Ariano, a miner, 24 years of age, was instantly killed by a...
by GrundyILGW | Feb 6, 2015 | Coal Mining, History
To his Excellency, the Governor of the State of Illinois: The General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at its session in the year 1883, having appropriated the sum of $10,000.00 to relieve the sufferers by the Diamond Mine disaster at Braidwood, and appointed the...
by GrundyILGW | Feb 6, 2015 | Coal Mining
The following table denotes the casualties from the 16 February 1883 mining accident which occurred at the Diamond Coal Mine in Grundy County Illinois. The Diamond Mine Disaster at Braidwood Report from Committee on Diamond Mine Disaster, 1885 ...
by GrundyILGW | Feb 6, 2015 | Coal Mining
The most conspicuous event which has occurred during the year, or which has ever marked or marred the annals of coal mining in this State, was the calamity which befell the Diamond Mine, and the miners in it, at Braidwood, in February last. At this place, by the...
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