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C. C. Co., No. 2. Sec. 34, Town S, Range 3 East; depth, 80 feet; vein 8 feet; wooden tipple; capacity 800 tons; operating 6 years.
C. C. Co. No. 3, Sec. 34, Town 8, Range 3 East; depth, 80 feet; vein S feet; wooden tipple: capacity 1500 tons: washer capacity 600 tons; op- erating 2 years.
Sam T. Brush, Sec. 34, Town S, Range 1 East. Our shaft, No. 1, which is known as Dawes Shaft, is located on the northwest quarter of Section 35, Town 8 sonth, Range 1 east; depth of shaft 100 feet; thick- ness of coal 9 feet: wooden tipple; capacity 2500 tons daily; a Luhrig Washer, capacity 600 tons in eight hours; electric haulage and lighting plant connected with the mine, elec- tric pumps used for pumping water out of the mine. The St. Louis & Big Muddy Coal Co. owns about 3000 acres of the Carterville coal field in a compact body, lying north of and adjoining Carterville, in Wil- liamson County, Illinois. This body of land was selected by Mr. Brush after he had prospected and tested all of the coal land in Williamson County. The largest amount of coal taken from the shaft any one year was 347000 tons, in 1897. Operat- ing 12 years.
Anderson Coal Co., Sec. 23, Town 8, Range 3 East: depth 135 feet ; vein 8 feet; wooden tipple; capacity 1500 tons; operating 1 year.
The Carterville & Herrin Jeffrey Coal Co., Sec. 22, Town S, Range 2 East; depth 130 feet; vein 8 feet; wooden tipple; capacity 1500 tons; operating 1 year.
Williamson County Coal Co., Sec. 24, Town 8, Range 3 East; depth
120 feet; vein s feet; wooden tipple; capacity 1000 tons; operating 8
years.
Johnson City & Big Muddy Coal Co., Sec. 24, Town 8, Range 2 East; depth 220 feet; vein 8 feet; wooden tipple: capacity 1500 tons; operat- ing 2 years. .
Big Muddy Coal Co., Sec. 33, Town 8 Range 3 East; depth S0 feet; vein 8 feet; wooden tipple: capacity 1200 tons.
R. D. Coal Co., Sec. 2S, Town 8,
Range 3 East; depth 60 feet: vein 8 feet: wooden tipple; capacity 800 tons.
Daniel K Coal Co, Sec. 26, Town S Range 3 East; depth 110 feet; vein S feet; wooden tipple; capacity 150 tons; operating 2 years.
S. S. Coal Co., Sec. 25, Town 8, Range 3 East; depth 160 feet; vein 9 feet; wooden tipple; capacity 2500 tons; washer 800 tons: operating 4 years.
Alexander Coal Mine, called Nub- bing Ridge, at Herrin, Sec. 30, Town 8, Range 2 East: depth 161 feet; vein 9 feet; wooden tipple; capacity 1200 tons; operating 3 years; The Chicago-Herrin Coal Co.
Chicago-Carterville Coal Co., 4 C's, Sec. 19, Town 8, Range 3 East; depth 180 feet; vein 9 feet; wooden tipple; capacity 2500 tons; washer 1000 tons; operating 5 years.
Big Muddy Coal and Iron Co., No. 7, Sec. 20, Town 8, Range 2 East; depth 135 feet; vein 8 feet; wooden tipple: capacity 2000 tons; washer 800 tons; operating 7 years.
B. M. C. & I. Co., No. 8, Sec. 14, Town S, Range 3 East; depth 190 feet: vein § feet: iron tipple; capac- ity 2500 tons; washer 800 tons; op- erating 1 year.
W. C. M. Co., Sec. S. Town 8, Range 3 East; depth 220 feet: vein 8 feet: wooden tipple; capacity 1000 tons; operating 2 years.
N. V. Coal Co., Sec. 25, Town 8, Range 2 East: depth 120 feet; vein 8 feet; wooden tipple; capacity 1000 tons; operating 4 years.
C. D. Coal Co., Sec. 36, Town 8, Range 2 East; depth 100 feet; vein 8 feet; wooden tipple; capacity 1500
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MISS EDNA WEEDEN. Daughter of Rev. W. W. Weeden, Pastor of the Christian Church, Marion, Illinois.
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MISS NETTIE BINKLEY, Daughter of T. J. Binkley, driving her favorite buggy horse.
tons; operating 2 years: Carterville District Coal Co.
Chicago & Marion Coal Co., depth 110 feet: vein 8 feet; wooden tip- ple; capacity 1500 tons; operating 1 year.
Zeigler Coal Co., Franklin Coun- ty, Sec. 13, Town 7, Range 3 East: depth 350 feet; vein 8 feet; iron tip- ple and coke ovens; capacity 2500 tons; operating 2 years.
W. C. & C. Co., Sec. 1, Town S, Range 3 East; sunk 100 feet each shaft and stopped because the rail- road would not put in a switch. The thickness of the vein as given in this list represents only the number of feet being mined. The strata aver- ages 9 feet thick and over.
ACCOUNT OF SOME OF THE PRIN- CIPAL COAL MINES OF THE COUNTY.
The Sunnyside Coal Company's new shaft is 145 feet to the top of the coal. The thickness of the seam is 9 feet. The size of the shaft is 17 feet, S inches by 9 feet in the clear, the hoisting and shafts being 6 feet, 8 inches by nine feet each, and the pipe-way 3 feet by 9. The hoisting engines are 18x32 inches, double, of the Litchfield manufac- ture; the drum is 6 feet in diameter, and the capacity of the mine is 2 1-2 tons. . The boilers are 48 inches by 26 feet, lung to iron framing. The smoke-stack is four feet in diameter and fifty feet high. The ventilating fan is of the Crawford and MeCres- man manufacture, and is twenty feet in diameter, driven by an engine 12 x24 inches, direct motion. It is lo- cated at the air shaft. The size of the escapement shaft is 8x13 feet in the clear; four feet 8 inches by 8
feet of this shaft is used for a stair- day; the rest of the space is used for ventilating.
The Chicago-Carterville Coal Com- pany's shaft at Herrin has a sean about 9 feet in thickness and of su- perior quality; the depth of the shaft is 180 feet to the coal; the size of the shaft is 9 1-2x17 feet in the clear, and is divided into three compartments; the two for hoisting are 7x9 1-2 feet each. The pipe- way is 2x9 1-2 feet and all are tim- bered with cypress buntons 6x18 in- ches; the head frame is of yellow pine and is 75 feet high to the sheaves, which are 12x12 inches; all timbers are well braced 42 feet
from the ground line to the dump- ing landing. The dumping shed is built of oak, with corrugated iron roof and sides, and is equipped with shaker screns for making lump, egg and other sizes of coal. The struc- ture is so arranged that a breaker can be ercted in the future with dis- turbing mining operations. The hoisting engine house is of brick, 22 x 26 feet; the engine is of the Craw- ford and McCremmon manufacture,
and is first motion, with double coni- cal drum cylinders 20x36 inches; the drums are 6 feet at the ends and 7 1-2 feet in the center. The
sheaves are 7 feet in diameter; the capacity of each mine is 2 1-2 tons. The boiler shed is 34x52 feet. There are five boilers, one is 16 feet by 42 inches, with 30 three-inch flues; two are 20 feet by 60 inches with 20 six-inch flues; the other two are 20 feet by 72 inches with 20 six-
inch flues. All are supplied with the necessary connections and fit- tings. The power-house is a frame building, 30x46 feet, with metal sides and roof, and now contains a Morgan-Gardner 100 K. W. genera- tor, also an Erie 150 horse-power automatic engine, with necessary connections and fittings for operat- ing electric coal-mining machines. The carpenter, blacksmith and ma- chine shops are in one building, 25 x90 feet, with all necessary ma- chinery for doing all work and re- pairs. The air shaft is 9x15 feet in the clear, and is separated into two compartments, one 9x9 feet for ven- tilating, the other is 4x9 feet for es- capement. The fan is 20 feet in di- ameter with a 12x24-inch engine to run it. The washing plant has a ca- pacity of 150 tons per hour. With- out doubt this is one of the
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JOE A. MEAD, Marion.
JOHN M. LINES, Marion.
Two Marion Athletes.
best equipped mines in the state.
The Southern Illinois Coal Min- ing and Washing Company is located on the line of the Chicago and East- ern Illinois Railroad, three miles north of Marion. At a depth of 120 feet a seam of coal was reached which is probably No. 7 of the geo- logical survey. The size of the shaft is 17 feet 9 inches by 10 feet in the clear, and is situated on a 2000- acre tract of land, the coal running from 9 to 11 feet in thickness. The timbers used in the shaft are 8x10 inches, white oak. The tipple is built of steel, and was erected by the Wisconsin bridge and Iron Com- pany. The self-dumping cages and shaker screens were built by J. A. Parker, of Terre aute, Ind. Elec- tric mining machines are used hav- ing a 300 horse-power dynamo and engine. The boilers are of the Mur- phy furnace type, fons in number, 600 horse-power, and are fed by
automatic machinery. The smoke- stack is built of brick and is 100 feet high. The engine and boiler- room is 45x90 feet, built of hollow tile with steel trusses. The roof is of fire-proof material. There is a Stewart coal-washer in connection with this mine, 30 feet wide by 100 feet long, with a washing and un- loading capacity of 175 bushels per hour.
The Southern Illinois Coal Min- ing and Washing Co., No. 2, Marion, Illinois. The hoisting of coal at this mine began in October, 1301. The mine is 120 feet to the coal, and the size of the shaft is 10x10 feet. The coal runs from 9 to 10 feet in thickness, and is of a very good quality, being much freer from sulphur than the majority of coals in this field. The top works are con-
structed entirely of steel with con- crete foundations. The engine and boiler house is built of hollow build- ing tile, with steel truss roof sup. porters. The smoke-stack is brick, 100 feet high, 17 feet in diameter at the base and 7 feet at the top. The mine is equipped with Crawford & McCremmon, first motion hoisting engines, 20x36 inches, with conical drum steam brake and reverse; also a McEwen dynamo engine and Link- elt dynamo, with sufficient power to run 14 electric chainbrest mining machines. The steam power is fur- nished by 4 tubular boilers of 150 horse-power each, equipped with Murphy furnaces and automatic stokers. The plant is well supplied with fire pumps and sufficient hose to reach any part of the top works in case of fire. The washer was completed in June, 1902, and has a washing capacity of 1500 tons; this is also equipped with an unloading device, capable of unloading 100 tons per hour. The coal is screened hy a J. A. Parker Shaker screen. The fan is 20-foot with direct con- nection, and has a capacity of 180,- 000 cubic feet of air per minute. The mine is now hoisting 1200 to 1400 tons per day, and when fully opened up will have a capacity to hoist 2500 tons in 8 hours. The pit cars hold 3 1-2 tons and are dumped and hoisted on automatic dump cages.
The New Ohio Washed Coal Com- pany, No. 3, Carterville, Illinois, The sinking of this shaft began in July, 1903, and goes to a depth of 120 feet. The vein is 9 to 11 feet thick and the quality of the coal is fully up to the high standard of which this field is noted. The bed lies along the ridge just east of Car-
terville. The mine is well drained, comparatively dry and absolutely free from gas. The coal at the present time is hand-mined, but ma- chinery will be installed within a comparatively short time. The ca- pacity, when fully developed, will be 2000 tons daily. The equipment consists of the very best machinery and is up-to-date in every respect. Tipple is 74 feet high, shaker screens which make three sizes of coal, 6-inch lump, 6-inch egg and 3- inch screenings. The screenings are shipped to the New Ohio Washed Coal Co's washery, just west ofCar- terville, where they are unloaded and washed by the Luhrig process. Five different sizes of washed coal are made, a No. 1, or washed egg, which passes over a 1 3-4 and through a 3 degree round hole; the No. 2, which passes over a 1 and
through a 1 3-4 degree round hole; the No. 3, which passes over a 3-4 and through a 1 degree round hole; the No. 4, which passes over a 1-4 and through a 3-4 degree round hole; the No. 5 contains everything that passes through a 1-4 degree round hole. The washing process entirely eliminates all slate and other foreign matter which is found in raw coal, and makes an absolute- ly pure coal in every respect. This mine has railroad connections with both the Illinois Central and the Missouri Pacific, which allows of its product being shipped over a wide area.
FATAL MINING ACCIDENTS.
Fatal mining accidents occurring in Williamson County from 1897 to 1904 inclusive:
Ezzonia Bondi, employed as a
miner at the St. L. & B. M. Coal Company's Mine at Carterville, was fatally injured by a premature blast May 11th, 1897, and died the fol- lowing day at 5:30 a. m. He had prepared two shots to fire; he lit one and went into the entry for safety. He evidently heard a shot fro man adjoining room and mis- took it for his own, and returned to the room to see what it had done. When within 20 feet of the room the shot went off which caused the injuries from which he died. He was a married man, 32 years old, and leaves a widow and two chil- dren in Italy.
September 16th, 1897, Fred Greinhold, a miner employed at the Williamson County Coal Company's mine at Johnson City, was in- stantly killed by falling coal. He was mining off a standing shot, and being old he was unable to get out of the way of the falling coal. He was single and 54 years old.
September 24, 1897, at the mine of the Williamson County Coal Com- pany, at Johnson City, a fire-dump explosion occurred at 7 a. m., which
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killed Frank Fanaro, aged 45 and single; Charles Schiller, aged 34, single, and Peter Casper, aged 37, single: and seriously injured Robert Britton and Joseph Barlow. On that morning the men gathered at the pit top as usual for work. The fire boss being sick, the mine had not been examined that morning. Caleh Davis, the mine manager, claims to have told Peter Casper and others who were working in the first and second south entries on the east side to remain at the bottom of the shaft till he could come down and examine their working places. Peter Casper on reaching the bottom, went directly into the first south entry and left his naked light on the out- side of the cross-cut and took off his coat and went to the face and start- ed to brush out the fire-dump with his coat. After working at this a few minutes he returned and got his naked light and then went and got an empty pit-car and pushed it towards the face. As soon as he was inside the cross-cuts, a few feet his naked light came in contact with the fire-dump, which caused a terrific explosion and the death of the four
miners mentioned. The stoppings, doors and timbers of the first and second south entries were blown in all directions. Robert Britton and Joseph Barlow were blown several feet along the main east entry, by the force of the explosion. Joseph Barlow had his leg broken, his flesh torn and his head badly bruised. Robert Britton ' had his left arm broken. Caleb Davis, mine mana- ger, was at the pit top at the time the explosion occurred, and as soon as possible he secured some practical men and started them to work to restore ventilation by pulling np temporary doors and stoppings.
Peter Casper walked alone to the bottom of the shaft, though severe- ly burned, and was there met by his friends and conveyed to his boarding house, where he died on the 26th. Frank Fanero was found dead in his room int he first south entry, evi- dently overcome by the afterdamp, and when found was lying face downward. It was then supposed that this was all that were injured by the explosion, and the searchers went to the top, but after a few min- utes it became known that Geneli was missing. The party then de- scended the shaft and searched for him. They found him dead in the third room from where he was work- ing, toward the bottom. It was evi- dent he had tried to find his way out after the explosion, but had be- come bewildered and strayed into the room. Peter Casper said .hele was some one calling for help and light when he was on his way out. The last body was taken out at 11 a. m. The company was sinking an escapement at the time of the explo- sion, which has since been com- pleted. I visited the mine on the afternoon of the day of the explo- sion and discovered upon examina- tion of the record-book that the mine had not been examined in the morning before the men were al- lowed to go to work, nor had it been examined since the morning of September 20th, the day on which I made my previous visit. This mine at the date of this report is operated by A. W. Crawford, lessee.
December 15, 1897, John Coyne, aged 44, single. by occupation a miner, was suffocated by gases from a coal fire in the 3rd south entry on the east side of mine No. 2, of the Scott Wilson Coal Company, at
Fredonia. At 7:30 a. m. miners working on the east side reported to the mine manager that there was smoke coming from some of the pil- lars between the second and third south entries. He immediately or- dered all the men out of the mine except a few whom he kept to lo- cate the fire. One of the mules got away from thed river and ran into the third south entry, and was al- lowed to go, as it was thought too dangerous to go after him on ac- count of the smoke. About 9:30 a. m. John Coyne started in the direc- tion the mule had taken and asked some of the men to follow him. None, however, went. The mine manager, on finding out what Coyne had done, sent two men in search of him, but they could not find him so returned. Another party was or- ganized in the afternoon to go in search of Coyne, and they found him dead, about 6 p. m., in the third south entry, 1200 feet from the main east entry, the mule being a little beyond the body of Coyne. When the men reached the switch
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with the body of Coyne the mule was close to their heels, and seemed to he unharmed. The fire originat- ed among some old timbers where some one must have changed lamp- cotton, which set fire to the coal. This part of the mine was then sealed up for three weeks and then reopened, when it was found that the fire had all died out.
July 12, 1898, August Durbee, a miner, aged 33 years, was killed in- stantly by a fall of slate at the face of his working place in shaft No. 7, operated by the Big Muddy Coal and Tron Company at Herrin, leaving a wife and four children. The de-
ceased was working off a standing shot, which was the only support to the broken roof. The piece of slate that fell on him would weigh fully three tons.
September 27, 1898, Jes Maris, a miner, aged 29 years, single, em- ployed at the Scott-Wilson Coal Co. shaft No. 2, Fredonia, was cleaning up a fall of slate that had come down the night before, on top of some loose coal. He sounded the roof before starting to work and made the remark that it was all right, but in a few minutes after- ward a piece of roof weighing about 1000 pounds suddenly fell, striking him on the back. He was taken to his boarding house, and died from his injuries at 5:30 p. m. the same day.
November 24, 1898, Edgar McAl- phin, laborer, age 23, married. was killed in the mine of the Ohio and Mississippi Valley Coal and Mining Company, Marion, leaving a widow and one child. He was coming out of the shaft on the cage with four other men, and when about 50 feet up, lost his balance and fell into the west chamber and down the shaft.
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This was only his third day in the mine.
December 21, 1898, James Van- sage, miner, aged 33 years, mar- ried, was killed while at work in a pillar in the mine of the St. L. and . M. Coal Co., at Carterville, leaving a wife and three children. He was working off some coal that had been shattered by a shot the night before, when a piece of top coal, weighing about 200 pounds, fell, crushing bis head against a pit-car close by.
August 5th, 1899, A. MeNeal, miner, aged 28 years, was instantly killed in room 9, first south entry, by a fall of slate in the Big Muddy Coal and Iron Company's No. 7 mine at Herrin. Deceased had fired his shot, and instead of waiting a reasonable time for the powder smoke to clear away so that he could examine the roof, he returned to the room with the intention of lighting another shot, but when he got with- in a few feet of the face of the room a piece of slate fell, killing him instantly. He leaves a widow and five children.
January 9, 1901, Noah Morgan, driver, aged 20 years, single, was killed instantly by being caught be- tween a pit-car and the side of the entry, in the Big Muddy Coal and 1ron Company's mine No. 7, at Her- rin. The deceased was making his last trip before dinner and was rid- ing on the front end of the empty car, driving at full speed, when the car left the track with the result stated.
January 14, 1902, William Butch- er, driver, aged 27 years, married, was killed by being caught between a loaded pit-car and the side of the entry in the mine of the Chicago and Carterville Coal Co. at Herrin. He was hauling a loaded pit-car through a cross-cut from the second west entry to the first west entry on the north side. In attempting to get onto the front end of the car he slipped and was caught between the car and the side of the entry. He died within a few minutes, leaving a widow and one child.
January 29, 1902, C. B. Carney, miner, aged 52 years, married, was instantly killed by being struck on the head and body with coal from a blast in the Carterville Coal Com- pany's mines. He had prepared a blast and when firing time came in the evening, he went to light his shot. The instant he put his lamp to the squib the shot exploded. Whether this was due to a defective squib or that the deceased pushed his lamp under the powder part of the squib is not known. He leaves a wife and seven children.
January 29, 1902, Abraham Buck- les, miner, aged 41, single, was se- verely injured by being struck on the head with loose coal from a blast in the St. L. & B. M. Co's. mine
JERRY GRAVES AND CAL PRICE, Who Murdered Mrs. Nellie Reichelderfer, March 16, 1903.
at Dewmaine. He had gone into his room to light a shot and in making his retreat was struck by fying coal. It is not known whether he was struck by coal from his own blast or from the adjoining room, as it was found upon examination that a blast in an adjoining room had blown through the pillar at the time of the accident. He died from his injuries five hours later.
February 24, 1902, Aleck Calca- tarra, a miner, aged 41 years, mar- ried, was severely injured about the body by a fall of slate in the B. M. C. & I. Co's. shaft No. 7, Herrin. He was cautioned by the mine ex- aminer to be careful of some loose slate at the face of his working place. In reply he said that he
could take care of himself. He was mining off some coal that had been loosened by a blast the previous day when the slate fell, which caused his death five hours later.
Juue 26, 1902, Charles Wheel, a miner, aged 54 years, was instant- ly killed by flying coal in the Car- terville Coal Co'c. mine. He had prepared a blast in his room, which was about 40 feet in from the en- try. When firing time came he went into the room and lit the squib. It is presumed he became bewildered, and instead of coming out into the entry he went down the face of the room. When the shot exploded he was struck by the flying coal. The deceased had a family somewhere in the West.
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