KENILWORTH - Services for Charles Jackson, 54, of Kenilworth, who died Saturday at the state tuberculosis sanatorium in Ogden, will be conducted Tuesday at two p.m. in Kenilworth. Burial will follow in the Price City cemetery. Bishop Bert Christensen will conduct the services.

Mr. Jackson was born Feb. 1, 1887, at Bohustan, Sweden, a son of Jacob and Marie Margaret Johansen. He came to America in 1906, settling in Michigan, where he lived until he came to Ophir, in 1908. He resided at Ophir until 1920, when he moved to Kenilworth.

During most of his residence in Kenilworth he was employed as a mine ventilation foreman. Lately, however, he had been a tipple worker. Arrangements are in charge of Larkin and Sons mortuary.

Charles Jackson, age 52, employed as a stable boss by the Independent Coal and Coke Company, was injured when his team ran away causing the wagon to run over him, on February 22, 1939, from which injury he died February 15, 1941.

The tragedy of a life lost in an accident is never an easy thing to deal with. Coal Mining is a dangerous occupation under the best of circumstances, and in 1945 it was even more dangerous than it is today. I have been told there is not another occupation that forms the bonds of friendship like the Miners do. They would risk their own life to save the life of a fellow miner. Therefore, when the tragic mining accident takes the life of a miner, it is tremendously hard for those who survive. The story behind every accident and death involves heartache, and loss that is beyond words to express. It doesn't last for a few months nor for a few years, the loss is generational and lasts a lifetime. The death of our miner, Ivan Russell or better known as Joe Jackson has devastated and altered the life of his surviving wife, his children, and his children's children descending to the great and great grandchildren. It is engraved upon their hearts and their souls.

1945 life in Utah was hard, for many families. There were few jobs, and there was not the advantages given to the workers and their families. March 1945 World War II was still in full swing. People lived in fear of what the future held for them. Joe Jackson had been hired in 1943 for the Independent Coal and Coke Co. the mine was the Kenilworth Mine. In 1938 Joe (his nickname) and his young bride began their life together by March 1945 they had four children and was expecting their fifth child, due in August. Joe was scheduled to work on March 13, but changed his schedule to work the graveyard on March 14th. At this point fate entered. In the late hours of March 14, the Kenilworth Mine would go down in history with a mining accident. Three miners were killed and nine miners were burned. Five of the nine were seriously burned. Four miners escaped injury. It was a coal-dust explosion. A direct current power line broke and caused a flash which ignited the dust caused by a bounce which occurred when earth pressure forced the coal to break from the face of the dip. A 16 man crew and a shovel were operating in the vicinity when the flare occurred. Clothing of the 12 was ignited. The 12 men, with the four whose clothing was not set on fire fought to save themselves from the flames. There was no fire in the mine other than the burning suspended coal dust and the clothing of the workmen involved, said the spoke-person for the mining company.

The injured were taken to the tunnel mouth where physicians from Helper and Price and uninjured fellow members gave emergency treatment, they were then taken to the company hospital at Kenilworth. The 7 most seriously were taken to the Price Hospital.

Ivan Russell, (Joe) Jackson died in the early morning of March 15, 1945 from the burns and injuries caused by the burning coal dust. Another miner Clem Hawks died also. Another injured miner Gilmer Nelsen died a day later.

Joe's young wife, Vola, was at home in Price with their small children ranging in ages 6, 4, 2, and 1. She was in her 4th month of pregnancy with their unborn child. I don't know who brought the word to her that her husband was seriously injured in the mine accident. I do know that she had a neighbor stay with her children and she rushed to the Price Hospital to be with her husband. Many hours later when she left to go home, she was told by doctors that they thought Joe would "make it". She left that night thinking he would be ok. The next morning, she again took her children to a neighbor and made the agonizing trip back to the hospital. When she got to the nurses' station, they ask her why she was there; she told them she was there to see her husband, Joe Jackson. One of the nurses broke the news to her than Joe had passed away during the night. Those words are the most devastating word to hear. Hearing the words, "He has passed away" is the most heart sick feeling that penetrates all senses, and every part of your body it is indescribably painful and beyond comprehension for the human mind. Shock waves flooded her very being. Alone, lost and unable to reason, she returned to her little humble home, to her little children. What was she to do? Calls had to be made. Family needed to be notified all the while her heart was pierced with a burning sting that would leave a scar forever. In the days and months and even years that followed, Vola could never get her life turned in the right direction. Family tried everything they could to help ease her pain and her heartache. Sixty years later she would still be carrying her pain and heartache. She would eventually die with the tragic death of her husband seared in her mind and her heart.

The tragedy of the Kenilworth Mine accident lives on 70 years later. Not only did Ivan Russell (Joe) Jackson death from the mine explosion devastate his wife, his children lived a life of loss. Not only did they lose their Dad, but eventually they lost their mother. She could not take care of them. She could not provide for them the very simple necessities of life, shelter, clothing, food. She lost her hope and therefore could not give them the love, the mothering that every child deserves and needs and wants. Their little broken hearts never recovered. The stability of home as a child was robbed from them. The mine accident crushed 5 young hearts that continued to adulthood, and has been passed to the children's children. The flames that burned the life out of their father would rekindle and burn them, over and over again. Oh, yes they all five moved forward and had productive and good lives, but their childhood was burned in that Kenilworth mine and it was gone from them forever.

Headlines 7 decades ago, "Three Miners Meet Death In Explosion" does not begin to describe the death in explosion that is carried into the future. It was a terrible accident. Miner's lives were lost. What about the families of these miners? They lived. And the explosion never died.

KENILWORTH. Carbon County -Death toll in the Independent Coal and Coke Co. coal mine dust explosion was swelled to three Thursday, with two more miners in critical condition in Price hospital, and six more listed as serious. The blast occurred Wednesday. The rest of the 16-man crew was back at work, four uninjured, and one back on the job after emergency treatment for burns and shock.

The three died of severe burns and injuries. They are Gilmer Nielsen and Clem Hawks, Kenilworth, and Ivan Russell Jackson, Price. Being treated are Richard Sarrimond, Arthur Smith, David Bennett and Arthur Lermusiax in Price hospital, and Nick Markakis, Iven Jensen, George Archibque and Felipe Armizo are in Kenilworth hospital. Alcaria Quintane was treated at Kenilworth and was back at work Thursday.

Ivan Russell Jackson, 27, who died Thursday at 3 a. m., was born in Lehi Dec. 1, 1917, a son of John S. and Victoria College Jackson. He had lived in Price two years. Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Vola Holley Jackson, Price; parents, and four sons and daughters, Erven, Verla, Lloyd and LeEarl. Price, and the following brothers and sisters, Lester W. Jackson, Lehi; Forrest Jackson, Draper; Floyd Jackson, Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Violet Chidester and Mrs. Fay Lamb, Price; Mrs. Myrtle Lovendale, Riverton; Mrs. Virginia Rasmussen, Salt Lake City, and Norman and Ronald Jackson, Lehi.

Funeral services to be conducted in Lehi will be announced later by the Wallace mortuary, Price. Gilmer B. Nielsen, 35, who died Wednesday at 9:10 p.m. in Price hospital, was born June 27, 1909, in Manti, Utah, a son of James and Florence E. Anderson Nielsen. He was a resident of Helper, Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Delma Rostron Nielsen, Helper: his mother, Gunnison; three children, Gilmer Regnol, Bobby J. and Cora Lou Nielsen, Helper, and three brothers, Melvin Nielsen, Lehi; Roldo Nielsen, Long Bench, Cal., and Alfonzo Nielsen, Salt Lake City.

Funeral services will be conducted Sunday at 11 a. m. at the Helper civic auditorium. Burial will be in Manti under direction of Mitchell funeral home, Price.

CASTLEGATE, Feb. 13 - Merrill Johnson, 25, and Jacob Jacobson, 30, were killed late Tuesday night by falling rock in mine No. 2 of the Utah Fuel company. The men had just entered the mine and were setting up their machinery when the fall occurred.

PRICE - Merrill Johnson, 25, and Jacob Jacobson, 30, employees of the Castlegate mine No. 2 of the Utah Fuel Company, were instantly killed in a side fall of rock at the mine, and Bud Malin, about 29, barber, professional prize fighter and miner in the Standardville mine of the Standard Coal company, was killed in a roof rock fall as Tuesday's toll in the mining district about Price.

Johnson and Jacobson were killed at 7:45 p.m. shortly after they had entered the Castlegate mine. They were setting up their drilling machine when the fall occurred. Both men were badly crushed. Fellow workmen in an adjoining room dug them out and had the men at the hospital before 8 p.m. Mothers of both men live in Price and Jacobson leaves a wife and four children. Johnson was the son of John P. and Vosema Olsen Johnson. He was single.

Malin was killed at 2:30 p.m. when a roof rock fell at the Standardville mine broke his neck. Malin, whose real name was John Yadrosich, was extricated from the rock by a mine rescue crew from the Spring Canyon mine, and attempts were made to revive him before it was discovered that his neck was broken. His body will be shipped to Trinidad, Colo. Thursday by the J. E. Flynn mortuary, which also has charge of the bodies of the other two men, for whom services will be held in Price. Malin has relatives in Latuda and Trinidad. He had been in Price about two years and had fought in Price and Salt Lake.

Mrs. Lavona Jacobsen, widow of Jacob Jacobsen, deceased, for and on behalf of herself and three minor children, vs. Utah Fuel Company, a self-insurer.

On February 12, 1929, Jacob Jacobsen was employed by the Utah Fuel Company as a driller and while preparing a blast of drill, coal fell from the side and top, killing him instantly. The applicant was living apart from her husband and with her children resided in the State of Washington and the question of the amount and duration of compensation was raised by the defendant company. From the evidence submitted the Commission found that the minor children of the deceased should receive the maximum compensation provided by law -- $16.00 per week for 312 weeks and that same shall be placed in a trust fund for the benefit of said minors the sum of $30.00 per month to be allowed the mother for the care and maintenance of the children.

On Sunday, January 29, 2006, the 12th East longwall afternoon shift production crew, supervised by Jed R. Gordon, Section Foreman, began work at 3:00 p.m. While traveling to the section, the crew discussed the bounces and coal outbursts that were occurring on the longwall. Kyle Dean, Shearer Operator, initiated the discussion to remind crew members to be cautious.

The person normally assigned to operate the headgate shearer drum did not report to work. Gordon assigned Dean to the headgate drum and David Powell, Beltman and Mine Examiner, to the tailgate drum. Powell had previous longwall shearer operating experience. Other crew members included Shane Jacobson, Propman and victim; Justin Barrington, Propman; Mathew England, Headgate Operator; and Thomas Sandoval, Mechanic.

The afternoon shift crew arrived on the section; made a "hot seat" change out with the day shift crew and commenced normal mining operations on the longwall. During the shift, a significant bounce/outburst occurred at approximately 5:00 p.m. at the headgate. This occurred while the headgate was being cut out by the shearer. This event did not interrupt mining and did not cause any injuries.

At 8:00 p.m., Powell left the longwall face to perform his assigned preshift examination. Jacobson replaced Powell on the tailgate shearer drum. After this change, one complete pass was made on the longwall face without incident. The shearer was then taken to approximately No. 40 shield and a taper pass was taken back to the headgate to straighten the longwall face. While this was being done, Powell returned to the longwall shortly before 11:00 p.m. and Jacobson asked if he wanted the remote control back so Powell could finish the pass. Powell told him it was not worth changing for the few minutes left in the shift so Jacobson continued as the tailgate shearer operator. The crew planned to end their shift as soon as the headgate was cut out and the shearer was repositioned in the middle of the face. At this time, Dean operated the headgate shearer drum and was cutting into the headgate. Jacobson was positioned at No. 11 shield waiting for the headgate to be cut out. Powell returned to No. 1 shield to observe the mining operation.

As the cutout at the headgate was being completed, a bounce with coal outburst occurred. The outburst extended approximately 30 to 40 feet up the face and 40 feet from the corner down the headgate entry on the solid coal block. Coal from the face came over the face conveyor into the shield area from Nos. 7 to 14 shields.

Powell, seeing the extent of the outburst, went to check on Dean and Jacobson. He saw that Dean was alright, but found Jacobson seated on the toes of No. 11 shield and covered by debris to his waist. Dean went to the headgate area to shutoff electrical power and summon help. Powell, a first responder, checked Jacobson but found him to be unresponsive. He started cardio pulmonary resuscitation (CPR), but had difficulty in administering breaths. Other crew members provided assistance.

Jacobson was removed from the longwall face and transported to the surface. CPR was administered during transportation but was unsuccessful. Jacobson was placed in a Carbon County ambulance that was waiting. All further attempts of resuscitation were stopped and Jacobson was taken to Castleview Hospital in Price, Utah, where he was pronounced dead. Time of death was fixed at 11:25 p.m., January 29, 2006, the time Jacobson was placed in the ambulance on the surface. Cause of death as indicated on the Certificate of Death was a blunt force injury of the head.

John Jaccobucci, Italian, age 26, single, employed as coke puller, was injured in the coke ovens at Sunnyside, July 1, 1914.

Jaccobucci and Joe Rosse went down to their sets on the east side of lower, or new ovens on July 1st, between 4:30 and 5:00 p.m. as was customary in order to get their tools and runways ready for work at 1:00 a.m., the next morning. While at the ovens a severe rain, hail and wind storm came down the canyon. Jaccobucci sought shelter under a coke rack car. Rosse tipped up a wheelbarrow for protection. While both were in these positions a string of eight rack cars, starting some two thousand feet up the canyon from where these men were sheltered, and crashed into the cars standing on this track and fourteen cars passed over Jaccobucci. As far as is known these runaway cars started by themselves, as none of the employees of the company were on duty at that time.

Frank Germanich, age 32, married with 1 child, was killed May 2, 1916 due to a derailed car. He was working as a timber man at the Sunnyside No. 2 mine.

Survivors of James Jardine, 43, Wellington, another victim, are his widow and two daughters, Mrs. Nan Morley and Miss Margaret Jardine, Wellington. Funeral services will be conducted Saturday at Price by Sunnyside local UMW officials. Burial will be in Price City cemetery.

The services for James Jardine, 42, Wellington, were held on May 12, under the direction of the Sunnyside local union officials. He was born in Blantyre, Scotland, and is survived by his wife, Margaret, and two children, Mrs. Ann Morley and Margaret Jardine. He was a face boss.

The victim died in an underground mining accident at 4:50 a.m. at Hiawatha, Black Panther Mine due to crushed between coal cars.

Research notes: he was 43 at the time of accident. The accident occurred Oct. 30, 1953 and he later died November 2, 1953.

Four of the dead brothers, John Webber, John Hunter, William C. Reese, and James J. Jenkins were members of the endowment rank of the order, with five hundred dollars in the case of Brother Jenkins, and one thousand dollars to each of the other three.

KENILWORTH. Carbon County -Death toll in the Independent Coal and Coke Co. coal mine dust explosion was swelled to three Thursday, with two more miners in critical condition in Price hospital, and six more listed as serious. The blast occurred Wednesday. The rest of the 16-man crew was back at work, four uninjured, and one back on the job after emergency treatment for burns and shock.

The three died of severe burns and injuries. They are Gilmer Nielsen and Clem Hawks, Kenilworth, and Ivan Russell Jackson, Price.

Being treated are Richard Sarrimond, Arthur Smith, David Bennett and Arthur Lermusiax in Price hospital, and Nick Markakis, Iven Jensen, George Archibque and Felipe Armizo are in Kenilworth hospital. Alcaria Quintane was treated at Kenilworth and was back at work Thursday.

Ivan Russell Jackson, 27, who died Thursday at 3 a. m., was born in Lehi Dec. 1, 1917, a son of John S. and Victoria College Jackson. He had lived in Price two years.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Vola Holley Jackson, Price; parents, and four sons and daughters, Erven, Verla, Lloyd and LeEarl. Price, and the following brothers and sisters, Lester W. Jackson, Lehi; Forrest Jackson, Draper; Floyd Jackson, Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Violet Chidester and Mrs. Fay Lamb, Price; Mrs. Myrtle Lovendale, Riverton; Mrs. Virginia Rasmussen, Salt Lake City, and Norman and Ronald Jackson, Lehi. Funeral services to be conducted in Lehi will be announced later by the Wallace mortuary, Price.

Gilmer B. Nielsen, 35, who died Wednesday at 9:10 p.m. in Price hospital, was born June 27, 1909, in Manti, Utah, a son of James and Florence E. Anderson Nielsen. He was a resident of Helper, Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Delma Rostron Nielsen, Helper: his mother, Gunnison; three children, Gilmer Regnol, Bobby J. and Cora Lou Nielsen, Helper, and three brothers, Melvin Nielsen, Lehi; Roldo Nielsen, Long Bench, Cal., and Alfonzo Nielsen, Salt Lake City.

Funeral services will be conducted Sunday at 11 a. m. at the Helper civic auditorium. Burial will be in Manti under direction of Mitchell funeral home, Price.

Quadruple funeral services for four victims of the New Peerless mine explosion were held from the L.D.S. Tabernacle at Price Wednesday afternoon. Dan Turner, his brother, Clement, Wm Curtis and Lester Curtis received final honors together, while services for James Jensen, the fifth man who met his death in the tunnels were held at Lawrence.

James Lafayette Jensen was born in Canada May 29, 1906. He is survived by his parents, Lafayette and Christina Knibb Jensen; his wife, Sylvia Arnold Jensen and one child, Betty Elaine.

Crushed between a coal car and a mine wall in a Utah Fuel company mine at Clear Creek Monday, Vernal James Jensen, 24, a resident of Fountain Green, died in a Salt Lake City hospital at 1:40 p.m. Friday. Jensen was lowering the car into the mine when he lost control of it and was crushed between the car and the mine wall. He suffered a crushed pelvis and internal injuries. Born in Fountain Green September 19, 1911, Jensen was a son of Neils Cornelius and Eliza C. Anderson Jensen. He was a graduate of Moroni high school.

Surviving are his parents, his grandfather, James C. Jensen, Fountain Green; three brothers, Lowell Jensen, Mt. Pleasant; Dean and Ray Jensen, Fountain Green, and a sister, Mrs. Paul Madsen, Fountain Green.

Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Tuesday in the Fountain Green L D S ward chapel, with Bishop Irwin P. Oldroyd officiating. Friends may call at the Deseret mortuary in Salt Lake City Sunday, and at the home of his parents in Fountain Green Monday and Tuesday prior to the services. Burial will be in the Fountain Green cemetery.

July 18th, 1896 - On the morning of this date Peter Jensen, a miner, was working in the extreme face of his room, in the Pleasant Valley Coal company's Castle Gate mine, and was engaged in picking down some coal which had not been entirely blown out by the shot of the previous evening, when a large rock directly above, fell upon him, crushing him down. The rock was removed by the workmen in the immediate vicinity as soon as possible, but death ensued within fifteen or twenty minutes from the time the rock was removed.

States there is a Peter E. Jensen buried in the Provo City Cemetery. Born 10 Oct 1872, died 28 Jul 1896 in Castle Gate, buried 28 Jul 1896. The death date is 10 days different but according to this record he died and was buried the same day. If this is the same Peter Jensen, it would make him 24 years old.

A mechanic, age 27, was killed when he fell to the shaft bottom from an upper level pump station as he was disembarking from the hoist bucket. Castle Gate mine.

PRICE, Feb. 7 - One miner was killed, two were seriously injured and another had a narrow escape from death when tons of "top coal" fell on them in the Columbia Steel company's mine at Columbia, near here today.

Sam Jensen, 28, father of four children, was killed.

Tally Evans, 30, had his left hand severed and Glen Stevenson, 22, was severely bruised.

The three men and Abe Crawford, 20, were loading a car more than a mile from the entrance when a slab of coal two feet thick fell from the tunnel roof, striking all of the men except Crawford, who ran for assistance.

Evans and Jensen's body were removed shortly but rescue crews worked for two hours before Stevenson was taken from the fallen coal. The injured men were taken to a hospital.

Stevenson, although badly injured, grasped the stump of Evan's arm and by applying pressure, prevented him from bleeding to death, until rescued.

Funeral services for Ruel W. Johansen, 28, Cleveland, who was killed last Friday in a mine accident at Hiawatha, were conducted Monday at 1:00 pm in the Cleveland ward chapel, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, by Clay Peterson, bishop.

Burial was in the Cleveland cemetery under the direction of the Mitchell funeral home.

A son of Charles and Sophia Timothy Johansen, he was born on March 16, 1924, in Elmo, Emery county. He married Bonnie Bishop on December 31, 1946 in Price. He had worked at Hiawatha during the past five years.

Besides his widow, he is survived by his mother, Price; two daughters, Laura Sue and Denise Johansen, Cleveland; six brothers and two sisters, Max Johansen, Price; Mervin, Lloyd and Roy Johansen, Elmo; Tom and Glendon Johansen and Mrs. Leah Nelson, California, and Mrs. Eunice Chatwin, Salt Lake City.

Three miners injured last Friday in a rock slide which killed two co-workers at the Hiawatha mine were reported in "improved" condition at the Price City-County Hospital.

Most critically injured was Merril Berenson, 41, of Price, who had two vertebrae removed from his back in an operation performed over the week end. He was listed "improved from critical."

The other two, Rex Filmore, 36, Cleveland, Emery county, and Herbert Hardgraves, 28, Hiawatha, both were listed in "fairly good" condition at the same hospital.

Peter Murning, 39, Hiawatha, and Ruel Johansen, 28, Cleveland, Emery County, both were killed instantly when they were caught beneath an avalanche of huge slabs of rock which fell from the roof of the mine.

Among those who are entombed in the mine is also Bryan Johnson, youngest son of Aaron Johnson of Springville and Mapleton. The father and four brothers of the young man arrived in Castlegate late Saturday night to comfort and cheer the bereaved wife. Bryan Johnson is about 28 years of age and had been working in the Castlegate district for about a year.

Bryan's mother Louisa also had forebodings about her sons working in the mines. A week before the disaster, when Bryan, Hazel, and Cecil (2) drove to Mapleton for a short visit, she urged him to "leave off coal mining," and he admitted he "was tired of it and had concluded to move down (to Mapleton) in a month," or according to another account, "two weeks." ...

A.J. (his father) received a strong impression that Bryan should get out of the mine, and it seems probable this intimation came immediately following Bryan's visit to Mapleton. Both A.J. and Louisa were religious people accustomed to receiving spiritual guidance, and at this juncture-the first week of March 1924-they were filled with anxiety and foreboding about Bryan's safety...

After returning to Castle Gate with his small family, Bryan worked only a day in the mine before the disaster took his life. On Saturday, March 8, shortly after 8 a.m., the first of three tremendous explosions occurred.

Bryan's body was among the last to be recovered. Leland found it about 7,000 feet inside the mountain, according to one account, or "two miles back," according to his mother. Unlike many of the bodies, it had not been mutilated by the explosion.

Chas. Johnson, a Finlander, 61 years old and single, was burned by gas October 13, 1919, and died of these burns December 8, 1919, at the St. Mark's Hospital. He was warned in the morning by the fire boss not to go in his place as there was gas in it. He paid no attention to the fire boss and went into his place and set off the gas which burned him severely, from the effects of which he died December 8, 1919.

PRICE - Uranium and coal mining accidents killed two miners here yesterday. Tommy Lopez, 23, Temple Mountain, Emery County, died of injuries suffered when he was pinned between a runaway uranium ore car and a rock wall. Clayton F. Johnson, 48, Carbonville, Carbon County, died of injuries suffered when a rib of coal fell on him Monday.

Johnson was injured fatally when a rib of coal fell on him at the Royal Coal Company mine Monday night. Another worker, Tom Girard 53, suffered minor injuries.

The victim died in an underground accident at 3 p.m. at Castle Gate Coal mine due to fall of roof on his back.

PRICE - Homer B. Johnson, 22, brother of Dr. M. T. Johnson of Columbia, died at 5 p.m. Monday in the Price hospital of severe chest injuries received in an accident earlier in the afternoon at the coal mine of the Columbia Steel company at Columbia. He died a few minutes after being rushed to the hospital.

Mr. Johnson had been a resident of Carbon county for nearly two years. His mother, Mrs. Martha Johnson, resides at Kanawha, Iowa. He has a sister, Mrs. Max P. Schranck, residing at Cedar City. Other survivors are Henry J. and Oren H. Johnson, Kanawha; Sylvia Johnson, Chicago; Mrs. Gertrude Milnes, Kanawha, and Mrs. Ernest Phillips, Sioux City, Iowa.

CASTLEGATE, Feb. 13 - Merrill Johnson, 25, and Jacob Jacobson, 30, were killed late Tuesday night by falling rock in mine No. 2 of the Utah Fuel company. The men had just entered the mine and were setting up their machinery when the fall occurred.

PRICE Feb. 13 - Bud Malin, professional prize fighter and miner, was instantly killed late Tuesday in the Standard Coal company mine in Standardville when a roof rock fell on him and broke his neck.

PRICE - Merrill Johnson, 25, and Jacob Jacobson, 30, employees of the Castlegate mine No. 2 of the Utah Fuel Company, were instantly killed in a side fall of rock at the mine, and Bud Malin, about 29, barber, professional prize fighter and miner in the Standardville mine of the Standard Coal company, was killed in a roof rock fall as Tuesday's toll in the mining district about Price.

Johnson and Jacobson were killed at 7:45 p.m. shortly after they had entered the Castlegate mine. They were setting up their drilling machine when the fall occurred. Both men were badly crushed. Fellow workmen in an adjoining room dug them out and had the men at the hospital before 8 p.m. Mothers of both men live in Price and Jacobson leaves a wife and four children. Johnson was the son of John P. and Vosema Olsen Johnson. He was single.

Malin was killed at 2:30 p.m. when a roof rock fell at the Standardville mine broke his neck. Malin, whose real name was John Yadrosich, was extricated from the rock by a mine rescue crew from the Spring Canyon mine, and attempts were made to revive him before it was discovered that his neck was broken. His body will be shipped to Trinidad, Colo. Thursday by the J. E. Flynn mortuary, which also has charge of the bodies of the other two men, for whom services will be held in Price. Malin has relatives in Latuda and Trinidad. He had been in Price about two years and had fought in Price and Salt Lake.

John P. and Dosena Johnson, parents of Merrill Johnson, deceased, vs. Utah Fuel Company.

On February 12th, 1929, Merrill Johnson was struck by a bounce of coal, sustaining a broken neck and other injuries; as a result of said injuries he died on the same. The Utah Fuel Company paid for the burial of decedent as provided by law. For some time prior to his death decedent contributed regularly to the support of his parents, and they were partially dependent upon him for maintenance and support. Compensation awarded $8.00 per week for a period of 312 weeks.

The Lion Coal company was directed by the commission to pay $16 per week for 312 weeks to Vera Moffett Johnson as compensation for the death of her husband, Robert W. Johnson, who was killed in the mine of the company on October 15, 1924.

Research notes: Age 31 died Oct. 15, 1924

In August 1922, recruiters came into the small town of Blanding seeking workers to work in the coal mines in Carbon County, Utah. About 25 young men, all of them cowboys and farmers, signed up to work, and they were taken to Sunnyside in an open truck. The Blanding men were not aware of the "Sunnyside War". They did not know that the coal miners there were trying to unionize and had been locked out of the mines, and also locked out of their homes in the town of Sunnyside, by the coal company.

The Blanding men were taken through the picket lines late at night in the covered truck.

Roy started to work in the mines and Nora, his wife, cooked in the boarding house where most of the Blanding men lived. The men from Blanding gradually gave up and came home as the strike was settled and the miners came back to work and back into their homes in Sunnyside.

Roy Johnson stayed and continued to work in the Sunnyside mines. On November 30 1923, Velda (Nielson) was born in Sunnyside, Flora (Graham) was born on March 20, 1926, Don Northern came along on May 26, 1930 and Roy Clive was born on Jan. 4, 1932.

Sunday, Sept. 17, 1933, Roy was called to work on mine maintenance in the Sunnyside #1 mine. He was happy to get the extra work. He was "cleaning tracks." As he was working he brushed his shoulder against a 440-volt overhead electric line that had loosened, and he was instantly killed. He was taken back to Blanding, Utah for burial. He was 34 years old, the father of five children. He had been a coal miner for eleven years.

Scofield, Utah - Nov. 5 - Andrew Johnstone, driver in No. 1 mine, was badly hurt this afternoon. He fell from the front of a trip of cars which ran on him, bruising his head and left leg, and his right arm is supposed to be broken.

Research notes: he passed away 13 Nov 1900 from these injuries. He was born 14 May 1884, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland to Samuel Johnston and Mary Hood.

Kenneth Johnston, formerly from Roosevelt, was killed in the mine of the Carbon Fuel Company up at Rains on Thursday of last week by being struck by a car. It is not known just what he was engaged at when death came. Deceased was born at Vernal some twenty-seven years ago and had been at the Spring Canyon camp about twelve months. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. David Johnston of Helper and was unmarried. Funeral services were held at the Carbon Stake tabernacle Sunday afternoon last. W. E. Stoker, bishop of Price ward, officiated.

Edward E. "Ted" Jones, superintendent of the Lion Coal company mine at Wattis, died at the Price hospital about 7:30 p.m. Saturday from injuries suffered that afternoon when he was caught beneath a falling rock weighing more than a ton.

Superintendent Jones was making a regular inspection tour of the mine when the huge rock fell on him from the roof of the mine. A crew of nearby miners, some of whom were hurt in the cave-in, extricated him from the mine and he was immediately rushed to the Price hospital. He died a few minutes after being placed on the operating table. He was badly crushed and suffered internal injuries as the result of the cave-in, which occurred at 4:45 p.m.

Mr. Jones had been superintendent at the Wattis mine for over a year and prior to that time had been superintendent of the Utah Fuel mine at Castle Gate for 3 1/2 years. His father, Edward J. Jones, was a victim of the Castle Gate mine blast in 1924. Before going to Castle Gate, Mr. Jones was safety engineer and acting superintendent of the U. S. Fuel at Hiawatha for ten years.

Edward Eynon Jones was born in Tidwell, Wales, September 30, 1880 and came to America when a small boy. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Mary Eynon Jones; his wife, Mary Olson Jones and five children, Glen, Mary Evelyn, Katherine, Fern and Darlene four brothers and two sisters.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the Masonic Temple at Price. The body will lie in state at the temple from 11:00 a.m. Wednesday until the hour of the service. Interment will be in the Price Cemetery under direction of the Desert Mortuary.

My Grandfather, Edward Lewis Jones, and my Grandmother, Mary Eynon Jones, first came to Winter Quarters from Merthyr Tidfil, Glamorshire, Wales about 1886. They brought with them their children, my father, Edward Eynon Jones, and two daughters, Mary Margaret and Anna Catherine.

My father, Edward Eynon Jones, started working at the mines after quitting school at the age of eleven. This was the custom-the oldest son to help with the family income. He started first by holding the portal doors open for the coal cars to go in and out. He was small for his age and his father carried him on his shoulders from the north end of town to the mine. Father worked his way up through the various jobs in the mine and studied at night.

On Saturday morning, March 8, 1924, Father was called to take the teams to Castle Gate because #2 mine had exploded. Father went in search of his own father who was the oldest man in the mine, and also for his brother-in-law, Alma Hardee. Now it was his turn to carry his father from the mine. After the explosion, Father was called to the Utah Fuel Company to be superintendent.

The Utah State industrial commission is passing on the claims for compensation made by the dependents of the victims of the explosion in the Castle Gate mine No. 2 of the Utah Fuel company on March 8. The commission is anxious to help the dependents and is endeavoring to expedite the adjustment of the claims. Saturday twenty-five cases were passed upon, the dependents being awarded $16 per week for 312 weeks - accrued payments to be made in lump sum, plus funeral expenses not to exceed $150. The cases disposed of Saturday and which the Utah Fuel company was directed to pay were: ... Inda Marie Jones, widow of Francis Lamont Jones and four children...

John Thomas Jones was born on July 28, 1861 in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. His father was John Thomas Jones and his mother was Jane Humphreys Davies. He married to Sarah Lester on March 9, 1885 in Scofield, Emery, Utah. He was the father of five daughters and two sons. He was killed in the Winter Quarters mine explosion and is buried in the Scofield cemetery.

Says the Moab Times-Independent of last Friday: "The body of Stanley Jones of Blanding, who died at Salt Lake City last Sunday from injuries received in a mine accident at Standardville some six weeks ago, passed through Moab Tuesday en route to Blanding for interment. He was 37 years of age, a son of Bishop Kumen Jones of Bluff and in addition to his parents is survived by his widow and several children."

KENILWORTH, May 24 - Funeral services for Myrl Jones, 37, who was fatally injured Monday night in a cave-in at the Independent Coal & Coke Co. mine, will be conducted tomorrow.

PRICE, Utah - Funeral services will be conducted in Wellington and Ogden on Friday for Willis Jones, 41-year-old Utah coal miner who was crushed Monday midnight by a rock fall in Kaiser Mine No. 2 east of Price. He died in a Dragerton hospital three hours after the accident. Burial will be in Ogden.

Accident Date: April 19, 1954 unspecified coal mine in Carbon County. The victim died in an underground fall of roof accident at 10:15 p.m. He was a roof bolter and a timber man.

Pinnacle Mine
Andalex Resources, Inc.
Price, Carbon County, Utah
ID No. 42-01474

On Thursday, January 22, 2004, at approximately 11:00 p.m., a fatal powered haulage accident occurred at the upper material storage yard on the surface of the Pinnacle Mine, an underground coal mine. The victim, who worked at the adjacent Aberdeen Mine (I.D. No. 42-02028), an underground coal mine operated by the same company, had been assigned to water roadways in the mine. He traveled to the storage yard, which was used by both mines, in an Eimco Model 975 utility tractor and attached a 650 gallon water trailer to the tractor. He later discovered that the water in the trailer was frozen and traveled to the lamp house where he talked to his supervisor who told him the location of a larger water trailer underground in the mine. He then returned to the storage yard and dropped off the trailer. As he pulled away from the trailer, the tractor traveled under the canopy of a MTA/(DBT) longwall shield that was stored in the yard. The victim, who was seated in the operator's compartment, received crushing head injuries as the tractor traveled underneath the canopy. The tractor came to a stop against the shield beneath the canopy.

The accident occurred because the shield was stored in an unsafe manner that allowed the tractor to drive under the canopy tip creating a pinch point with the top of the tractor. The absence of a protective structure for the operator's compartment on the tractor contributed to the accident. The operator's apparent lack of awareness that he was moving toward the shield after dropping off the trailer also contributed to the accident.

On Thursday, January 22, 2004, Jacob G. Jorgensen, a 29-year old laborer (victim), began his twelve-hour night shift at 9:00 p.m. at the lamp house. This was his second shift of a four day work cycle. Jorgensen's crew worked a four-days-on and four-days-off schedule. He had also worked the last two days of his four days off, making this his fourth day of work. Val Udovich, Shift Foreman, assigned Jorgensen to water the underground roadways at the Aberdeen Mine.

Jorgensen left the lamp house and went to the shop/warehouse to check on the availability of an Eimco 975 utility tractor to use for watering the roads. Shortly after that, Levi Hayes came out of the Aberdeen Mine with an Eimco 975 utility tractor pulling an empty low-boy trailer. Jorgensen took the tractor and trailer from Hayes and proceeded to the upper material storage yard. There he parked the low-boy trailer and hooked a 650-gallon water trailer to the tractor. He then returned to the lamp house and asked Udovich if he could use the larger water trailer because the water in the smaller 650-gallon trailer was frozen. Udovich told him where the larger trailer was parked in the mine. Udovich understood that Jorgensen intended to return the smaller trailer to the upper material storage yard and go underground to get the larger water trailer.

Jorgensen left the lamp house and drove back to the upper material storage yard where he unhooked the trailer and parked it in the same location where he had picked it up. He blocked the lower wheel and put a solid concrete block under the tongue of the trailer. As he drove away from the trailer, the tractor traveled into the longwall shield canopy where Jorgensen was struck by the tip of the canopy, causing fatal head injuries.

Denny Erickson, Step-up Foreman, arrived for work at approximately 10:30 p.m. He met with Udovich and received his work assignment to take panline sections to the longwall, which was being setup in the Aberdeen Mine. At approximately 10:50 p.m., Erickson received the pre-shift report, which was called out from underground, and he entered the results in the book at the lamp house. He then left the lamp house, accompanied by Frankie Hadden and Arlynn Williams, laborers, to look for an Eimco 975 tractor to begin their work assignment.

Erickson, Hadden, and Williams drove to the shop in a pickup truck to locate an Eimco tractor. When they got to the shop, they noticed machine lights in the upper material storage yard. They thought the lights were from an Eimco 975 tractor, so they went to see if they could use it. When they arrived at the machine, they found it sitting under a shield canopy in a "weird position." They could not see anyone in the machine, but decided to check it out. Once they exited the truck, they found Jorgensen in the operator's compartment crushed between the tractor and the shield canopy. Erickson sent Hadden to notify Udovich of the accident.

The Carbon County Sheriff's Office was notified of the accident at 11:09 p.m. Sergeant Tory Christiansen responded to the scene, arriving at 11:24 p.m. Thomas Stefanoff, Investigator for the Office of the Medical Examiner, also arrived at the mine. These officials immediately determined that the victim was deceased. Once the scene had been investigated, mine personnel used a Caterpillar 988 front-end loader to move the longwall shield away from the Eimco tractor and remove the victim. The Office of the Medical Examiner's Report of Investigation stated the time of death as 11:10 p.m.

Gunner Jorgensen, 22 years of age, son of Mr. and Mrs. Niels Jorgensen, who was killed in the Storrs mine last Saturday, when he was caught beneath a fall of rock, was buried in the Price cemetery Monday afternoon. Funeral services were held at Storrs at 1 o'clock.

Young Jorgensen was employed in the Storrs mine as a nipper and was working at these duties at the time of the rock fall. Besides his parents, he is survived by two sisters and two brothers.

Niels Jorgensen, father of Svend Gunnar Jorgensen, deceased, vs. Spring Canyon Coal Company.

On February 28, 1925, Svend Gunnar Jorgensen was employed as a motor nipper by the Spring Canyon Company. On said date the motor he was riding jumped the track, knocking out the prop supporting cross-bar, causing fall of rock which struck Mr. Jorgensen on the head. He was severely injured about the head and face and died the following day as a result thereof. Decedent was earning a wage of $48.00 per week at the time of the fatal injury. The defendants paid for the burial of decedent according to law.

Decedent left surviving him his father, the applicant herein; he had contributed regularly to his support. Compensation awarded to be paid to the father of the decedent in the sum of $16.00 per week.

Word was received by J. E. Pettit, state coal mine inspector, Monday, of the accidental death of Andrew Zeprian, a Hungarian, in the Fowler entry of the Utah Fuel company mine at Sunnyside, March 1. The body was found, along the tracks in the entry, badly mutilated and cut. It is thought Zeprian was run down by one of the coal trains but none of the operators of the trains knew of the accident. Inspector Pettit will make an investigation.

Andrew Zeprian, Hungarian, aged 47 years, wife and one child, was killed on the Fowler entry haulage road, March 1st, 1911. Deceased was working in No. 1 room on the second Right Fowler entry, employed as a miner. He and his partner, Andrew Baran, came to the main parting about twenty minutes before quitting time. The rules of the mine are that no miner shall pass out of the haulage road until a signal has been received from the motor man that the last trip has passed out for the day and the power been cut off the electric lines. The miners and horses are then allowed to pass out. When Zeprian and partner arrived on the parting, the motor man was putting in sand for the last motor trip. Bara, as is customary, remained on the near side of the motor, while Zeprian walked beside the trip to which the motor was attached, without being seen by the motor man.

Deceased was carrying two picks, strapped across his back, and as he passed on the upper side of the motor, it is possible that he came in contact with the live trolley wire and was rendered unconscious, as a burn was discovered on the side of his head. When the motor trip started up, he was undoubtedly crushed between the moving trip and the rib of coal. At any rate, when the motor had proceeded about 130 feet from the sand box, Zeprian rolled out on the track dead. Had he taken the low side of the entry to pass the trip he would have been given that the power was off.

An inquest having been held at Sunnyside, in Sunnyside precinct, Carbon County, on the third day of March, 1911, before Edward Burton, Justice of the Peace in Sunnyside precinct, in said county, upon the body of Andrew Zeprian there lying dead, by the jurors whose names are hereto subscribed, the said jurors upon their oaths do say:

"We have examined the body of the above mentioned person and find, on his head, a mark as of a burn, and we believe said mark was caused by his coming in contact with the electric trolley wire mentioned in testimony of Andrew Baran, and believe that said contact resulted in a shock to him that either caused his death or rendered him unconscious and unable to prevent his falling where he could have been struck by the trip of cars mentioned in the testimony given. We believe that either this supposed shock, or his being struck by the trip of cars, were, in this instance, either, sufficient to have caused his death and find that his going out alongside of trip was contrary to rules and instructions issued to miners generally, and that he was sufficiently familiar with mines and haulage ways to have recognized, himself, that there was much danger to anyone going out ahead of mother trip and we find that said Andrew Zeprian met his death on March 1st, 1911, about 4:10 p.m. in the Fowler entry of Mine No. 1 Sunnyside, Utah, operated by the Utah Fuel Company, by coming in contact with a live electric trolley wire and being struck by a trip of cars through his own negligence and disobedience of the rules of the company employing him, and we also find that the Utah Fuel Company, his employer, is not responsible, in any way, for his death.

Research note: Death certificate lists Jozsa Andras - however father is listed as Jozsa, Ferenc and mother as Liszkai, Katalin. Familysearch FamilyTrees list Andras Jozsa's parents as Ference Jozsa and Katalin Liszkai. The informant listed on the death certificate was "Jozsa Ceprain". Kathy believes the name of Ciprian is where Zeprian came from.

Axel Judd was fatally injured in rock tunnel by being crushed between a trip of seven runaway cars and the column or bar which holds up the air drill. Two drills were in operation at the time of the accident. These drills made so much noise that he did not hear the cars before they struck him. He was injured March 16, and died March 17, 1921. Accident occurred in the Black Hawk Mine, on Sixth West.

Martin, Carbon County -- Funeral arrangements for nine men killed in the mine blast here were completed Tuesday. The blast occurred Monday at Carbon Fuel Co.'s No. 2 mine west of here.

Names of the victims and time and place of their funerals follows:(NOTE: Obituary is listed under each specific miner's name)

Andy Juvan, 42, Spring Glen, was born Oct. 20, 1921, in Spring Glen, Carbon County, to John and Frances Kojek Juvan. He married LaVon Greenwood, June 17, 1943 at Castle Dale, Emery County. A veteran coal miner, he was a member of the West Slovanian Assn., Helper Lodge, No. 14.

Survivors include his widow, two daughters, Shirley and Frances, mother, all of Spring Glen, brother and sisters, John, Spring Glen; Mrs. John (Mary) Koss, Price; Mrs. Donald (Vilma) Cole, Boston, Mass.; Mrs. Ralph (Emma) Holseybrook, Eugene, Ore.

Funeral services will be conducted Friday at 2 p.m. in the Mitchell Funeral Home Chapel, Price. Burial will follow at the Price Cemetery.

Paul Cocoas, a Greek, was killed in the Kenilworth Mine February 26, 1921 by being jammed between car and rib of entry.

James Bonterakis, a Greek, 26 years old and single, was killed February 7, 1920, Castle Gate No. 1 Mine. He was riding rope on the second raise and was dropping a trip into the main west entry and thinking that the switch was lined up for the entry he walked down the dip entry and as switch was lined up for the dip entry, instead of going in the west entry. The trip caught him and he was thrown under the third car of the trip and when found he was dead.

PRICE, Utah. April 4 - Coal miner Nick G. Kallas, 55, died here today of a crushed chest suffered Monday when a 200-pound switch box fell on him in a shaft of Sunnyside Mine. Kallas and another worker had been setting up a shaker conveyor unit when the apparatus fell, pinning Kallas by the legs. The switch box fell as Kallas lay helpless.

Funeral services were held from the Greek church of Price Sunday afternoon for Jim Kallis, who was killed in the mine at Heiner last Thursday. Interment was in City cemetery.

Mike Kantelakis, about forty five years of age, was instantly killed late yesterday afternoon by a fall of coal in the mine at Sunnyside, where he was employed by the Utah Fuel company as a miner. Funeral services will be conducted at Sunnyside this afternoon with interment in the Sunnyside cemetery. The deceased is survived by his widow and three children.

Mrs. Hilda Elina Kankkonen, widow of George Kankkonen, deceased, et al. vs. Lion Coal Company and United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company.

On September 5th, 1926, George Kankkonen, while employed as a miner by the Lion Coal company in Carbon County, while taking out a block lost his balance and fell, whereby his foot caught under a car wheel and he was run over, from which injury he died on October 2nd, 1926. He left surviving him his widow and two minor children, living in Finland, who were dependent upon him for maintenance and support. Compensation awarded at the rate of $8.00 per week for a period of 308 3-7 weeks.

Research note: Age 32 died Oct. 1, 1926 Died of infection related to the crushed foot incident at the Wattis, Lion Coal Mine.

Mike Carvounis, a Greek, 40 years old and married, leaves a wife and three minor children, was killed October 30, 1919, Clear Creek No. 1 Mine, by a fall of top coal while loading his coal.

HELPER - Mike Kasimatis, 42, died in the Price City hospital Friday morning of injuries suffered in an accident in the mine of the Royal Coal Co., at Royal, Monday. The accident occurred at 11:30 a.m. and was caused by a fall of rock on Mr. Kasimatis, officials said. He suffered a compound fracture of the lower right leg and internal injuries.

Mr. Kasimatis, was born in Greece, August 11, 1892. He had resided in Helper for several years and worked as a driver at Royal since 1937. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Bella Kasimatis, and three children, Helen, John and Christina, all of Helper. Funeral arrangements will be announced by the Mitchell Funeral home at Price.

PRICE, Utah - Aug 11 Mike Kasimatis, 52, died yesterday of injuries received in an accident Monday at the Royal Coal Co. mine where he was employed as a driver. He suffered a fractured right leg and internal injuries in a fall of rock.

PRICE - George Kasselas, 62, died Saturday; funeral Wednesday, 2 p.m. Greek Orthodox Church.

Victim was fatally injured in an underground fall of roof. Accident at 10:15 p.m. on August 20, 1955. He was a timber man.

Tom Katagiri, a Japanese, 38 years old and married (leaves a wife in Japan) was instantly killed by a fall of slate, on December 14. He was working in No. 4 room pillar on first east in the Black Hawk Mine.

The state industrial commission Friday ordered the state insurance fund to pay $998.40 into the employees' combined injury benefit fund because of the death of Pete Oloski, who left no dependents. The commission ordered the Peerless Coal Company to pay Mary Kavros $16 a week for 310 weeks for the death of her husband, Lewis Kavros.

Tony Kelakis, a Greek, 36 years old and single, was killed January 13, 1920, Clear Creek No. 3 Mine. Tony had fired two shots on the side of his pillar and was taking down the loose coal, when all of a sudden the cap rock or drawslate caved on him. The slate was 34 feet long, 29 feet wide, and 4 feet 2 inches thick. Tony was instantly killed. A slip which was on the right hand side of the place, 30 feet long, was not observed until after the accident, as the place was propped in good order.

By courtesy of Mr. Coalter, who has just returned from a business trip to Chicago, we learn that on arriving at the station near the Pleasant Valley coal mines, the body of Antonio Kelly was put on board, and he learned from reliable sources the particulars of his death.

It appears that he was standing in the mine and saw some fragments of dirt fall from the roof immediately above where the driver passed to and fro. He stepped forward to warn him of the danger of passing under that part when twenty or thirty tons of earth fell from above covering and killing him instantly. Thus he lost his life while attempting to save a companion. The accident occurred about noon last Wednesday. He was from Pennsylvania.

Two Utah coal miners were killed Thursday in separate caveins in Carbon County. Louis Godeness, 50, of South Price, was killed about 5 p.m. when a section of roof in the Spring Canyon Coal Mine fell on him. He reportedly was alone in that section of the mine when the fall occurred. Rescue workers recovered his badly crushed body about two hours after the mishap. The second victim, Melvin Kelly, was killed by a cave-in at the Kaiser coal mines in Sunnyside about 9 p.m.

Funeral services for Franklin Lloyd Killian, 60, Dragerton miner who was killed in a machinery accident Saturday at the Geneva Mine of U. S. Steel, will include two short services. There will be a service at 10 a.m. in the Dragerton Second LDS Ward Chapel and a second service at 2 p.m. in the Orangeville LDS Chapel.

Mr. Killian was the father of Jack Killian of American Fork; Mrs. Clan (Beth) Stilson and Mrs. Leon (Clara Lee) Bawden, both of Orem and Clark Killian with the U S Navy at San Diego. His mother, Mrs. Ermina Killian, also of Orem, survives him as do nine grandchildren; two brothers and three sisters, in addition to his wife and children.

Mr. Killian was born July 25, 1889 in Orangeville to John Franklin and Ermina Jewkes Killian. He married Thora Seely Sept. 28, 1934 in the Manti LDS Temple. A high priest in the LDS Church, he filled a mission to the southern states from 1930 to 1932.

Sylvia Gamett King, widow of Douglas D. King, deceased, for herself and as guardian of the person and the care of Elaine King, minor daughter of applicant and deceased, vs. Spring Canyon Coal Company.

On May 29, 1924, Douglas D. King was killed by reason of an accident arising out of or in the ... his employment while regularly employed by the Spring Canyon Coal Company at Storrs, Utah. On the date of his death, Douglas D. King left surviving him, Sylvia Gamett King, his wife, and Elaine King, minor daughter, both of whom were living with decedent and were wholly dependent upon him for their maintenance and support.

Decedent also left surviving him, Hazel Delilah King, a minor child by a former wife; said child was legally adopted on the 5th day of September, 1923, in the Fourth Judicial District Court of the State of Utah, in and for Uintah County. The records show that Douglas D. King, the decedent herein named and the father of the said minor child, gave his consent to the adoption of said child by Cora I. Johnson. Said child was adopted by Cora I. Johnson according to law and treated in all respects as her own lawful child, including the right of inheritance, and on the date of his death was in no way dependent upon decedent for her maintenance or support.

Ordered, that compensation be paid by the Spring Canyon Coal Company to Sylvia Gamett King, widow of Douglas D. King, deceased, and to Elaine King, minor daughter of Douglas D. King, deceased, for their whole and sole benefit in the sum of $16.00 per week for a period of not to exceed 312 weeks. That the Spring Canyon Coal Company pay to H. L. Pratt, Attorney at Law, Price, Utah, the sum of $25.00 as attorney's fee in the matter of appointment of guardian, said amount to be deducted from the compensation herein awarded.

Research note: Age 39 died May 29, 1924 from internal injuries due to a roof fall at the Spring Canyon, Storrs mine.

The new Liberty Mine recorded its first fatality last Friday when a Jap met death while at work. A missed shot was the cause.

Research note: Age 34 died Jan. 17, 1918 died of a penetrating wound to his chest at the Latuda, Liberty Mine.

John Kirton was the first one brought out, at about 12 o'clock, his whole scalp being burned to a cinder and his face unrecognizable. He was still alive and apparently conscious, crying out in agony for his fellow comrades to end his misery by killing him on the spot.

PRICE, Feb 3 - Rock slides in two mines and an ore car mishap in a third took the lives of three men in the Price coal district. The dead are Emil Fiorio, 40; George Kinzevich, 37, and Nick Pettersson, 21.

Fiorio was caught in a fall of rock in the United States Fuel company's King mine No. 2, and Kenzevich was trapped under rock which slid from the main tunnel of the Sweet mine. The men died Tuesday, a few minutes after the accidents.

Pettersson was knocked down and crushed under the wheels of an ore car in the Utah Fuel Company's No. 3 mine at Castlegate Monday. He died within a few hours.

PRICE, Nov. 21 - Sam Kenovich, 48, was killed today in a cave-in at the Sweet mine 13 miles northwest of here. Richard Heyden, 28, suffered a broken leg.

Waselic Kocogianakis, mother of Andrew Kocogianakis, deceased, vs. Utah Fuel Company.

On March 28th, 1925, Andrew Kocogianakis was injured by reason of an accident arising out of or in the course of his employment while regularly employed at Castle Gate, Utah, by the Utah Fuel Company, and died as a result of said injuries on April 2nd, 1925.

The mother of decedent filed application for compensation; she was a resident of Greece and was dependent upon her son for partial maintenance and support. Compensation awarded at the rate of $8.00 per week for a period of 125 weeks.

Martin, Carbon County - Steve Kogianis, 59, died Wednesday from injuries received in an accident at Hard Scrabble Coal Company's mine here Monday. L. L. Arnett, state mine inspector, said Mr. Kogianis was fatally injured while loading a coal car in a place inside the mine where the roof was only 43 in. above the floor.

The place had been cut, drilled and shot and was well-timbered at the time of the accident. After sounding the top the men were in the process of loading a fall of coal out onto a chain conveyor, he noted. While at work, a layer of two to four in. of cap rock worked loose and fell without warning. A companion worker beside Mr. Kogianis jumped clear of the fall. Mr. Arnett had the mine shut down immediately and conducted an investigation Tuesday at 7 a.m.

Mr. Kogianis was born in 1892, at Aroni, Crete, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dmitrios Kogianis. He was a member of local number 8303, Martin, Carbon County, United Mine Workers of America. He is survived by one brother in the United States, George Kogianis, Provo, and has several members of his family residing in Greece. Funeral services will be conducted Sunday at 3:30 p.m. in the Greek Hellenic Orthodox Church in Price by Rev. Angelo Gavalas, pastor. Friends may call any time prior to services at Mitchell Funeral Home, Price. Burial will be in Price City Cemetery.

Age 38 years old when he died Dec. 20, 1916. He was born August 1878 to Nickolas and Kyuako Stefanakis Kokomas. He was buried December 22, 1916 in Sunnyside. Cause of death was chest crushed by falling rock in coal mine and was instantly killed while working at the Utah Fuel, Kaiser Steel, Kaiser Mine.

Andrej Komposch was born in 1886 in Ratece 18 Ratschach, Austria. He married Helen Josephine Branc on 17 May 1923 in Castle Gate, Carbon, Utah. His father was Matevz Komposh and his mother was Franca Oman. He is buried in the Helper, Carbon Utah cemetery. He was 36 years old at the time he was killed in the Castle Gate Mine Explosion.

Tom Canelos, a Greek, 33 years old and single, was killed October 14, 1920, Castle Gate No. 1 Mine, was killed by a bounce. Tom Canelos and his partner, George Callas, had loaded two mine cars of coal and were waiting for the driver to pull them out when, without any warning a bounce came on the pillar, throwing out a large amount of coal from the pillar, also throwing out the crossbars and props and caving slate, which was about 4 feet thick, burying the 2 miners with props, coal and slate. Tom Canelos was instantly killed by the slate falling on top of him. George Callas was rescued by the mine foreman, George Wilson, Santo Fendo, and Charles Mandryth, two and one-half hours later. These brave men showed their courage in risking their own lives to save the life of a fellow workman.

The Utah Fuel company was directed Tuesday by the state Industrial commission to pay to the state insurance fund $750, the amount due the state under the law for the death of Tom Ganelos, who was killed in the mine of the company at Castle Gate on October 14, 1920. No one has applied for compensation and no heirs appearing, the amount stated is to be paid to the state fund.

Louis Kerkos, a Greek, 27 years old and single, was killed July 11, 1919, Castle Gate Mine, by fall of rock caused by bounce on pillars.

PRICE, April 15 - Oscar Koski, 54, was killed Wednesday while working under the tipple of the Utah Fuel company mine at Clear Creek, 40 miles from here. According to Nick Pettersen, chief clerk, the support rope on the coal chute broke and the chute fell on Koski, who was picking rocks from coal being loaded into cars. He suffered a fractured skull and a broken left arm, dying a few minutes after the accident.

The Industrial Commission of Utah, as Administrators of the Employes Combined Injury Benefit Fund, provided by Section 3140, sub-section 1, 6 and 7 of the State Industrial Act, vs. Utah Fuel Company for the death of Mike Kosmos, November 22, 1923.

On the 22nd day of November 1923, Mike Kosmos, was regularly employed by the Utah Fuel Company at Castle Gate, Utah, was instantly killed by being run over by a trip while working on main haulageway track.

At the time of the fatal injury decedent was paid a wage sufficient in amount to entitle anyone dependent upon him for their maintenance and support to the maximum contribution of $16.00 per week. Defendant paid for burial of decedent according to law. No person or persons filed claim for compensation either with the Commission or with the Utah Fuel Company for the death of decedent herein named.

George Kostello, Jr, 17 years of age, Austrian, was killed December 24, 1907, at the Sunnyside coke ovens. Deceased was employed as weighman at the coke ovens; on the date in question, Kostello took loaded larry car No. 4 from larry motorman, ran it out on scales, weighed its charge of coal, called to Tony Tangoro to come and get this charge of coal. After Tangoro got on car Kostello put the contact on full, the car gained speed so rapidly that Tangoro said he was afraid to ride with him. On reaching switch entering No. 2 larry track Kostello threw the power off and applied the brake. While applying the brake his feet slipped and he fell from the car onto the west rail and the wheels passing over him, with the following results: spine broken, pelvic bone broken, and body nearly severed across the abdomen. His proper working place was in the weigh house. No inquest.

Peter Kochis, a Greek, 27 years old and single, (no known dependents) was struck by a motor that was following about 10 feet behind another motor. It does not appear that either motorman gave any warning of the approach of the second motor, so when the first one passed him he stepped right in front of the second one. He was injured November 14, and died November 20, 1920 in the St. Marks Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah. Accident occurred in No. 1 Castle Gate Mine.

J. E. Pettit, state coal mines inspector, left for Standardville, Carbon County, this afternoon, following a report that a Greek miner had been killed in an accident last night in the property of the Standard Coal Company.

Research note: Age 25 died Dec. 15, 1916 from crushing injuries due to a roof fall at the Standardville Mine.

Nick Colis, a Greek, 27 years old and single, was killed March 17, 1919, Kenilworth Mine. He was cleaning up bottom coal when the top coal caved on him, killing him instantly. The coal measured 6 1/2 feet, 4 1/2 feet wide and 7 1/2 feet long.

Funeral services for Nick Kuoukoupakis, a miner killed in an accident at Kenilworth last Monday, were held from the Greek Church at Price Wednesday afternoon with burial in the cemetery here. Rev. S. Mititakis preached the funeral sermon, which was attended by some two hundred of deceased's countrymen. The man was about 28 years of age, but had no relatives in America. The floral offerings were many and the talk of the priest most affecting. Some twenty members of the United Mine Workers from Kenilworth, Helper and elsewhere were here to attend the services, but were told by friends and mourners that their presence was undesired. Their floral offerings were declined. A leading member of the Greek community at Price says the Hellenes of Carbon county have absolutely no use for the United Mine Workers or the members thereof. A band officiated at the funeral.

That on the 17th day of March, 1919, the Applicant, Nikalaos Koukourakis (sometimes called Nick Colis), was employed as a miner in a mine located at Kenilworth, Utah, operated and owned by the Independent Coal & Coke Company; that on said date the applicant was struck on the head by a piece of coal, causing him to sustain fracture at base of skull and fracture of right thigh, causing instant death.

That on the 17th day of March, 1919, the decedent was paid seventy cents per ton for all coal mined by the decedent.

That the District court of the Third Judicial District in and for Salt Lake County, Utah, on the 6th day of May, 1920, appointed George Koukourakis as guardian of the persons and estates of Konstantinias Koukourakis, Desponias Koukourakis, Evanggelias Koukourakis, Demetries Koukourakis, Alexandres Koukourakis, Michael Koukourakis and Ioannis Koukourakis, minors; that on the 22nd day of April the said Court granted said guardian permission to elect to take compensation for the death of the said decedent, Nikalaos Koukourakis; that said orders of the said Court were filed with the Industrial Commission of Utah on the 13th day of May, 1920.

That the decedent, Nikalaos Koukourakis, contributed during the year previous to his death the sum of $225 to Emmanouel Koukourakis, father, and the following minor children: Konstantinias, Despoinas, Evaggelia, Demetries, Alexandres, Michael and Ioannis Koukourakis, for the benefit of said minor children; that the said minor children were on the 17th day of March, 1919, partially dependent upon the decedent for their maintenance and support.

In view of the foregoing findings the Commission concludes: That on the 17th day of March, 1919, Nikalaos Koukourakis was fatally injured by accident arising out of or during the course of his employment, while regularly employed by the Independent Coal & Coke Company, an employer subject to the provisions of the Compensation Act; that the Independent Coal & Coke Company should pay to Emmanouel Koukourakis, father of the minor children, for the benefit of the said minor children the sum of $1350.00 said sum to be mailed to the said Emmanouel Koukourakis at Athens, Greece; that the statute of limitations bars the father of the decedent and no award can be made for his benefit-it must be for the minor children herein named.

Decision rendered April 27, 1921.

Pete Koutras, Greek miner, aged 32 years, single, was killed on the pillar of No. 27 room, back slope of No. 2 mine, Clear Creek, May 27th, 1911, at about 7 a.m. He and partner, Markos Dukakos, were working on the pillar of No. 27 room on the above date. On the 26th, the mine did not work. Koutras went to his working place and fired a blast in the top coal, but the blast did not bring the coal down. On the morning of the 27th, Koutras went to his working place early, and when Dukakos arrived at 6:30 a.m. he found his partner already there looking around to find the best place to put in another shot to bring down the loose top coal. Just at that time, the coal fell on him. The top coal measured 3 feet in thickness. Dukakos also made the statement that when he entered his working place on the morning of the 27th, Koutras was attempting, with a lump of coal, to knock out a prop from under the top coal, in which he fired the blast the day previous. The coal fell on him and killed him. Dukakos's statement appears to be the correct version of the affair.

HELPER, Carbon County - A Liberty Fuel Co. miner, Frank Krajnc, 53, Helper, was killed Friday about 11 a.m. in a blast at the company's mine at Latuda, seven miles northwest of here.

G. A. Williams, mine superintendent, said Mr. Krajnc was a "shotfire" at the mine, in charge of placing dynamite. Mr. Williams said the victim apparently set a round of dynamite charges around a coal "stump"-a column of coal left in place as mining operations progress, to aid in supporting the mine's roof.

The Superintendent said Mr. Krajnc apparently went behind the coal "stump" to avoid the blast but failed to judge correctly the strength of the charge. He said the dynamite blew through the column of coal, killing Mr. Krajnc.

He said the victim, who worked alone, was found dead at 1 p.m. by Joe Nava, a machine operator at the mine. He said the blast, however, was believed to have occurred about 11 a.m.

One the 8th day of July, 1898, at about 10 o'clock, a.m., Theodore Kranwurkel, a timber man, employed in Castle Gate mine no. 1, was fatally injured.

At the time of the accident Kranwurkel and his partner were engaged in timbering. They started in pulling down some rock. One large piece however, they could not get down, and they concluded to put a prop under it. While Kranwurkel was engaged in digging a hole for the prop, a "Bounce" took place, knocking down some of the rock, a large piece referred to gave way and struck Kranwurkel on the back, from which he died.

At about 6:45 A.M. Monday, while riding in Castle Gate mine No. 1, John Krebs, an Austrian miner, was instantly killed and Jack Zager and Stanley Sem were injured.

For some unaccountable reason the trip on which they were riding into the mine was stopped at a point where some top rock had been taken down the day before, being delayed there for a couple of minutes, when a large slab of rock fell from the roof onto the last car of the trip, catching John Krebs and killing him instantly and injuring the others mentioned. Three other men were in the same car but escaped injury by crouching low in the car, the slab of rock, which was practically flat, nearly covering the whole top of the car.

The mine was closed down for the day. Funeral of Mr. Krebs was held at Helper the next day at 2 p.m.

Research notes: Age 42 died August 20, 1917

Antone Krofie was killed by falling coal in the mine Thursday. The funeral was held Friday at Helper. Quite a large crowd of friends form here attended it.

Research notes: Age 47 died March 21, 1917

John Krovanya, 43 years of age, a native of Austria, was fatally injured at 12:45 o'clock this afternoon by a fall of coal in the West Hiawatha mine of the United States Fuel company. He died an hour later at the hospital there from a basal skull fracture, lung hemorrhage and a crushed chest.

Krovanya was single, and as far as is known, has no relatives in this country. The body was brought to the Flynn Funeral home at Price this evening. Funeral services will be held from there Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock with interment in Price City cemetery.

Tom Kruzich, an Austrian, 23 years old and single, was killed August 30, 1918, Standardville Mine, while pulling the pin, horse turned around suddenly and he was caught between the car and shafts. He walked home by himself and died 11 hours later.

Frank Kuaritch, Austrian, 23 years of age, single, working as a miner, was killed in NO. 10 room, sixth left entry of No. 4 mine, Sunnyside. Deceased and a partner were working in No. 10 room, on the 20th of September, 1910, at 2 p.m. They had removed the track from the center of the room to the left rib, preparatory to taking out the pillar between No. 9 and No. 10 rooms. The driver pulled up the first car to the face or end of the pillar, where the mule did not have room to turn. Kuaritch, without the draw slate, attempted to knock out a prop to make room for the mule to turn. The draw slate was resting on a prop, and when Kuaritch attempted to knock out the prop, the draw slate fell, killing him instantly.

He was born in Salt Lake City, May 28, 1968, a son of Richard Gardiner Kubota. Married Cindie Gafa, Feb. 14, 1987, in Salt Lake City. He was a coal miner. Member Catholic Church. Tom was our family comedian. He would always make us laugh. Tom was also a very good artist, he loved to lift weights and play golf, and outdoor activities were his passion. Tom was a kid at heart himself. However, most of all, Tom was a great dad. He was a friend, father and husband, who took on much responsibility and love for everyone in his life. Tom, you will really be missed. We love you.

Survived by wife, Cindie; children, son, Joey Wes; daughter, Shaelie Jo; stepchildren, Heidi, Jessica and Cody, all Fairview; parents, Richard and Janet; brother, Kelly Kubota, all West Valley City; brother, John and wife, Dana, Fairview; sister-in-law, Staci Kubota; grandfather, Dean Gardiner, Enterprise, Utah. Preceded in death by brother, Clark.

Funeral services Saturday, February 15, 1992, 1 p.m., Fairview Second Ward Chapel. Friends call Ursenbach Funeral Home, Friday from 6-8 p.m. and Saturday at the ward chapel, one-half hour prior to services. Burial: Fairview Cemetery.

John Kuskar, an Austrian, 40 years of age, married, wife and six children, was killed in the Winter Quarters mine, July 19, 1909.

Deceased was injured while loading coal in car. Place where accident occurred was in a wide cross-cut driven through a room, which it was the intention to cross with a roadway in order to get out a pillar that lay behind the one through which cross-cut had been driven. The roof of this cross-cut is composed of a shale matter 14 inches thick, then 4 inches of bone coal, above which is 6 1/2 inches of slate and over all a cover of hard sand stone. As the cross-cut neared the old room the shale and bone coal was broken up and taken down, as it was too loose to prop up. The slate, while not broken up had parted slightly from the sandstone above, and this, the man tried to take down with a pick, but finding it somewhat hard, put a prop under it, though in such a manner that it did not support the lip next to the old room, as it was put up at a distance of some three feet from the edge of it, and as a consequence a piece measuring 5 feet 10 inches wide, and 6 1/2 inches thick fell on Kuskar, injuring him. Place was considered a safe one to work in. He was taken home and died three hours later.

On March 8, 1924, George Kulezakis was killed by an explosion in Mine No. 2 of the Utah Fuel Company at Castle Gate, Utah, while regularly employed by the company.

Application for adjustment of claim for compensation was filed by Stylian Staes as attorney-in-fact for the applicant, sister of deceased, but power of attorney was never filed with the Commission.

The claim of Eirini Efstratiou Kulezakis, sister of decedent, was ordered dismissed. The Utah Fuel Company was ordered to pay into the State Treasury the sum of $998.40 for the death of George Kulezakis, as provided in Section 3140 of the State Industrial Act.

PRICE - Nickolas Kulie, 47, miner in the Standardville mine, was killed outright in the mine Wednesday at 5 p.m.

Details of the accident were lacking, but it was understood Kulie, an Austrian, was run over by a digging machine. His head and chest were crushed. Mine officials are conducting an investigation.

Kulie is survived by two children, living in Chicago. His body is at the Flynn mortuary pending funeral arrangements.

May 8, 1902 - On this date Israel Kumbola, a miner, was killed in the Winter Quarters Mine No. 1. At the time of the accident Kumbola was working in his room, when some rock and coal fell from the roof, striking him and killing him instantly.

Isacca Kumpulainen was born in Lumijoki, Finland on Dec. 12, 1869. In the US he was known as Isak Kumpula which is the name on his headstone in the Scofield Cemetery. He died in the Winter Quarters No. 1 mine on May 8, 1902. The Eastern Utah Advocate and the Emery County Progress reported the following, "While at work in a room in Mine No. 1 at Scofield, Thursday morning, Isaac Kumputa was crushed to death by a fall of rock. As soon as the news was circulated all work was stopped. Kumputa's death is peculiarly sad as he leaves a wife and three children, who only arrived last week from Finland."

Angelos Ketros, a Greek, single, was killed February 9, 1920, Clear Creek No. 1 Mine. He was working in a pillar and had broken through to the adjoining room. This coal he was cleaning up, when a chunk of rock 6 feet square and about 18 inches thick, caved about 15 feet in the room they had holes into. This chunk of rock rolled over on the top of the loose coal and struck him, killing him instantly.

This was one of my Aunt's first husband that was killed at Valley Camp in Clear Creek. John Malowe Labbe was killed on 30 Jun 1933 from, I believe, a cave in. He is buried in Scofield Cemetery. My aunt received a settlement due to his death.

Compensation totaling $2,000 is ordered paid during the next six years to Mrs. Emma J. Labbe, widow of John Labbe, killed June 30 by a fall of rock while working for the Utah Fuel Company. There are two minor children, aged 1 and 4 years. The order was issued by the State Industrial Commission.

John Labbe, 40, miner in the Utah Fuel company mine at Clear Creek, was killed instantly Friday at 11:50 a.m. when a fall of rock from the roof buried him beneath tons of rock. He was born at Great Falls, Mont., on April 20, 1893, a son of John and Mary Labbe. He had worked in Carbon county mines five years. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Emma J. Petterson Labbe; a son and daughter, John and Pauline Labbe, Clear Creek and one sister. The body is at the Wallace mortuary in Price awaiting funeral arrangements.

William Lager, an outside laborer, was burned to death at Sunnyside Mine on March 25th, 1901. He was subject to fits. He had built a fire on the ground to warm his coffee for his dinner. While warming his coffee he took one of these fits and before he was discovered he had burned to death. There was no inquest held over his body.

Steve Lakinedakis, a Creton miner, aged 30 years, single, was injured in mine No. 3, third Right entry, at the face of first slant, Sunnyside, on May 1st. Lakinedakis was mining coal across the face of slant when about 400 pounds of coal fell on him from a slip which ran diagonally across the working face. A shot hole had been drilled from the slip, which was very pronounced, but a short time before the accident occurred. Both Lakinedakis and partner knew that the slip existed and took no precaution to sprag the coal while finishing undermining.

About 8:00 p.m. on September 25, 1939 the above two (2) men were shoveling coal into a shaker conveyor on the 7th left bottom entry when suddenly without any given warning, a large slab of rock broke from the roof which measured 20' x 12'6" and fell on the two (2) men. Perdue was killed instantly and Lamph died the following morning in the Standardville Hospital.

PRICE - One man was killed instantly and another was injured critically Friday at 8 p.m. in the cave-in at the Blue Blaze Coal company mine at Rains, 18 miles southwest of here. His head crushed beneath several tons of coal and rock, Fred Perdue, 45, driller at the mine, was killed instantly.

A companion, William Lamph, 35, cutting machine operator at the mine, was reported near death late Friday at a Standardville hospital, after suffering head and internal injuries. Another workman, known here only as a Mr. Gentry, escaped with minor injuries. Albert Shaw, mine superintendent, said the men were at work when the roof of the mine caved in. Mr. Perdue is survived by his widow and two sons, Fred and Clifford Perdue, all of Rains.

PRICE Oct. 12 - Argirios Landgouras, 34, a coal miner of Hiawatha, was killed Sunday in a "burst" which is a sudden breaking of a piece of coal from the ceiling of the "room" in which the miners are digging caused by the high pressure.

PRICE, Oct. 12 Argirios Landgouras, 34, Hiawatha coal mine was killed instantly Sunday when a piece of coal broke from the ceiling of the "room" in which the miners were working striking him.

Funeral services were conducted for Argirios Landgouras, 34 years, at the Greek church yesterday, a coal miner of Hiawatha. Interment followed at the Price cemetery.

Landgouras was fatally injured on Saturday when struck by coal "bursting" from the face of a coal room in which he was working at about 10 o'clock in the morning. He was thrown back against a coal car, sustaining internal injuries. He was to have been taken to Salt Lake for an operation in an effort to save his life, but died before he could be put on the train.

Serago Liangoura, mother of Harry Lianguora, deceased, vs. United States Fuel Company. On the 10th day of October, 1925, Harry Liangoura ...

Research notes: Cemetery record lists him as Harry Leagoras; death certificate as Harris Seagoris; obituary as Argirios Landgouras.

HIAWATHA - Nov. 25 - Injuries suffered in an accident in the Hiawatha mine of the United States Fuel Co. proved fatal Thursday to C. Langford, 50, a foreman in the mine, it was reported. Mr. Langford died in a Price hospital Thursday at 5 a.m. of multiple injuries suffered when he was injured in a rock fall at the mine Monday. Investigation will be undertaken to determine cause of the accident.

"Prof. Walton said, "One year ago the first of May, Robert Langstaff made his advent onto American soil from England. He celebrated the anniversary of his advent into this country by his death in the mines of the Pleasant Valley Coal Company, having been there only a few months."

Martin, Carbon County -- Funeral arrangements for nine men killed in the mine blast here were completed Tuesday. The blast occurred Monday at Carbon Fuel Co.'s No. 2 mine west of here.

Archie Alonzo Larsen, 40, Price, was born April 29, 1923 in Price to Austin Alonzo and Millie Mae Jessen Larsen. He married Alice Waterman Nov. 14, 1941, at Price. He was a World War II veteran. Survivors include his widow, sons and daughter, Dale, Kenneth and Allan, all of Price; Mrs. Gary (Sandra) Callor, Moab; brothers and sisters, Leo, Tom, Wade, all of Wellington; Delon, Ft. Ord, Calif.; Neal, Granger; Larry, Kearns; Claude, Shoshoni, Wyo.; Mrs. James (Etta) Henrie, Price; Mrs. Doyl (Rhea) Timothy, Wellington; Mrs. Lamont (Wanda) Downard, Salt Lake City. Funeral services will be conducted Friday at 2 p.m. in the Wellington Ward Chapel, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints. Burial will be in the Price Cemetery.

Harry Larsen, American, aged 27, married, employed as driver, was injured on the 29th day of July, 1914, in room No. 4, first right entry, No. 3 mine, at Storrs, dying in Provo Hospital on August 5, 1914. Mr. Larsen had gone in No. 4 room, first right entry, to pull a loaded car from the face. He started with the loaded car in the usual manner, putting a sprag in the car wheel. When about thirty feet from the face of the room he attempted to jump on the front end of car, when he was caught between the car and a prop, which was standing some thirty feet from the face of the room. The results caused his death on the above date.

Herbert Arvilla Larsen, 20 years of age, was killed in a fall of rock while working in the mine of the Spring Canyon Coal Company at Spring Canyon last Thursday. Following services at the coal mining town Monday, the body was shipped to Huntington for burial.

Larson was the second victim within two days in the Carbon district from falling rock in coal rooms. W. A. Everett was fatally injured the day before at Wattis.

Larson's father died less than two weeks ago at Helper from heart trouble. He, too, had been a miner at Spring Canyon.

Born June 20, 1908, at Nampa, Canyon County, Idaho, USA. He died November 17, 1936 at Standardville, Carbon County, Utah. He is the son of Edward Larson from Denmark and Mt Pleasant Alice Eliza Shoemaker.

Married Enid Merle Axelsen, daughter of Adolph, sister of Percy. John was killed in mining accident in Standardville leaving wife and young son.

April 30, 1900 was much the same as any other end of the month and pay day. Clyde had figured up our bills and, as usual, the tithing headed the list. The next morning, after he had kissed us goodbye, I held little Leora up to wave to her daddy as he started out the door. At about 10:20 the sirens began to wail and I went cold! There was something wrong at the mine! Yes, there was something wrong! Leora didn't have a daddy anymore! I didn't have a husband! There were about two hundred others who were without loved ones. This was a terrible time. Everyone was frantic! Mothers not knowing enough to feed their little ones, their grief and confusion so intense!

For days the men worked getting the dead out. The explosion had been on Tuesday and they didn't find my dear husband's body until Saturday night. His brother Claude identified him. His funeral was held in Milburn on Sunday. They said it was the largest crowd they had ever seen in Milburn. The man who had a large part in his conversion to the gospel, Melvin Miner, and Joseph Hansen of Fairview, were the speakers.

Price, Dec. 17 - Lamont Thomas Lawhorn, 30, of Provo, was killed Tuesday afternoon, when he was crushed under a fall of coal while working at the McLean Coal company mine in Spring Canyon. The body will be sent to Provo for burial. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paullus Holman Lawhorn.

Federal Sleuths Balked by Death Accused Forger Killed in Coal Mine Accident Ends Thirteen-month search - Man Facing Government Indictment, Eludes Pursuers, Only to Die While Working in Carbon County

Death cheated the law in the thirteen-month race for Lamoni Thomas Lawhorn. Sought in many states of the West, he was alleged to have fled to Cuba, only to return to his native land and meet death in a mine accident at Standardville on December 16. And on Saturday, Assistant United States District Attorney Edward M. Morrissey will ask that the case be abated and the matter closed, for it was a year ago last month that Lawhorn was indicted by the federal grand jury on a charge of having forged another person's name to a money order.

A moonshine liquor party is said to have started the hunt that ended in death two weeks ago. The celebrators included friends of Lawhorn in Price, where he had gone from his work at Columbia. There, it was alleged, he gained possession of a money order made out in favor of Thomas Gabbitus at the Springville post office. Lawhorn is alleged to have forged Gabbitus' name to the paper and cashed it at a Price store in payment for a pair of shoes.

Gabbitus in time reported his loss. The money order, paid and canceled, was traced and through the store in Price it was learned that Lawhorn cashed the paper, according to officers. Thus the case was presented to the federal grand jury in November, 1923. Lawhorn was indicted. A bench warrant was issued. The search was on. From a half dozen points Lawhorn was heard from. Twin Falls, Idaho reported he was there. A strict watch was placed on his mail, but he apparently sensed the danger and fled. It was the same in other places.

In Reno, Nev., he was the nearest to arrest and only a faux pas on the part of the post master gave him his liberty and the chance to return to the mines and to his death. Postal clerks had been given orders to detain Lawhorn if he asked for his mail. He was standing at the window when the clerk quietly informed the post master, according to reports. But the latter, talked to the sheriff's office in sufficiently loud tone that Lawhorn heard. He fled.

Then he wrote his folks that he was going to Cuba, but the United States authorities never verified that move. Lawhorn maneuvered in the intermountain territory in such a manner as to bring him to Salt Lake and out again, oftentimes throwing his pursuers from his tracks. At the time of his death he was known to be in the Carbon coal district. Lawhorn suffered a broken neck and a fractured skull in the accident.

An ironworker was killed when he fell while unhooking a choker cable from a tube which was positioned 35 feet above ground level. Hardscabble Cyn, Braztah mine.

PRICE - One man was killed and another seriously injured in a mine accident at the United States Fuel Co. mine at Kenilworth Saturday at 2:30 p.m. Delbert Leamaster, 43, was killed instantly. Harold Lee Blackburn received injuries about the head. According to information from the mine office, Mr. Leamaster, a shift boss, was inside the mine on his regular duties when without warning rock and coal fell from the roof crushing him beneath. The falling rock also struck Mr. Blackburn who was operating a shuttle car nearby.

Since all records at the mine office were locked up, no information regarding Mr. Leamaster's working record or family could be obtained except that he is married and the father of four children.

Mr. Blackburn was taken to the Price City Hospital.

Mr. Leamaster was born in Sunnyside May 2, 1905, a son of John M. and Millie Whiting Leamaster. His family moved to Hiawatha when he was seven years of age, and he had resided there since that time working for the United States Fuel Co. for many years. He had been shift boss for the past three years. He married Maria Ungerman of Huntington in 1929.

Surviving are his widow and four children, Reed Alfonso, Dell Bert, Millie Janice and Faye, all of Hiawatha; his mother, Huntington; six sisters, Mrs. Alice Crombie, Hiawatha, Mrs. Ernest Close, Pitman, Nev.; Mrs. Simon Olsen, Wattis; Mrs. Joe Arnold, Price; Mrs. Glen Whimpey, Huntington; Mrs. Robert Ketterer, Salt Lake City, and four brothers, L. A. Leamaster, Martin, Glen and Vernon Leamaster, all of Huntington.

HIAWATHA - Condition of Harold Lee Blackburn, injured in an accident in U. S. Coal Co. mine at Hiawatha Saturday afternoon, was reported as satisfactory and out of danger Sunday by Price City hospital. Before he regained consciousness from head injuries he had been considered in critical condition. Mr. Blackburn, a shuttle car driver, was injured by the same fall of rock which killed Delbert Leamaster, 41, Hiawatha, when it fell on the men as they were at work in the mine. According to the report from the mine office, the rock from the mine roof fell without warning, making it impossible for the two men to escape. Leamaster was a shift boss.

Funeral services for Mr. Leamaster will be conducted Tuesday at noon in the Huntington ward chapel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

A native of Sunnyside, Carbon county, he was born May 2, 1905, a son of John M. and Millie Whiting Leamaster. He had lived most of his life in Hiawatha. Surviving are his widow, Marie Whiting Leamaster, four sons and daughters, Reed Alfonso, Dell Bert, Millie Janice and Faye Leamaster, Hiawatha; his mother, Huntington; four brothers, L. A. Martin, Glen and Vernon Leamaster, Huntington; six sisters, Mrs. Alice Crombie, Hiawatha; Mrs. Ernest Close, Pitman, Nev.; Mrs. Simon Olsen, Wattis, Mrs. Joe Arnold, Price; Mrs. Glen Whimpey, Huntington, and Mrs. Robert Ketterer, Salt Lake City.

Friends may call at the Vernon Leamaster home in Huntington Monday and Tuesday prior to services. Burial will be in Huntington Cemetery under direction of the Mitchell funeral home, Price.

HIAWATHA - Oct. 14 Harold Lee Blackburn, miner injured in a coal mine disaster here Saturday afternoon, today was reported recovering from his injuries and out of danger. Blackburn was injured in a rock slide which caused the death of Delbert Leamaster, 43, shift foreman of the U. S. Coal Co., mine here. Both men were working deep in the mine when a rockslide from the roof caught them. Blackburn was critically injured about the head by the slide; Leamaster was killed instantly.

John Leavitt, World War Veteran, was fatally injured late Thursday afternoon while working in the mine of the Mutual Coal company in Spring Canyon, Carbon county. Silently and without warning a large rock, which it required seven men to move, broke loose and fell, crushing him beneath it. His brother, Alva, who was working in the same room, summoned help and the injured man was rushed to the hospital at Price, where two hours later he passed away. A telephone message to his parents Thursday night and another Friday morning carried the news of the accident and his death. The body was shipped to Richfield Saturday and a military escort awaited at the station to accompany the remains to the family residence.

Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon in the First ward chapel, Bishop F. M. Ogden officiating. The building was filled to capacity with relatives and friends of the deceased, and many beautiful floral offerings were contributed. Members of Battery E, 222nd field artillery, under command of Lieutenant Ferdinand Erickson, marched from the armory to the residence and led the procession to the chapel, and again at the close of the services marched to the cemetery where military rites were performed.

John Leavitt was born at Kanosh March 11, 1888, a son of Charles A. and Mary J. Leavitt, and he has made his home here since the Leavitts moved to Richfield eighteen years ago, though his employment has called him to other sections. He was enlisted in the army March 23, 1918 and after training at Camp Lewis, Washington, was sent overseas in July, 1918. He was wounded at Verdun, October 1, 1918. He received an honorable discharge at Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming, June 12, 1919. He was a member of the 363rd infantry, 91st division. Shortly after he returned home he went to Carbon county where he has resided most of the time since.

The deceased is survived by his parents and the following brothers and sisters: Percy Leavitt of Boulder, Mrs. Angus Hansen of Elko, Nevada, Mrs. Pearl Byers of Kansas City, Mo., Mrs. Trevor Harbor of San Bernardino, Calif. and Alva and Lyman Leavitt.

Peter Latsudis while driving in the Black Hawk mine Tuesday was killed instantly. The horse would not turn and the man was caught between the cars breaking his ribs. He was brought down in the car to the Doctor's office where he was properly cared for.

Paul Dean Leonard, 41, died Sept. 20, 1989 as a result of injuries received in a mining accident at Plateau Mine. He was born Feb. 2, 1948 in Price to Paul Bert "Jack" and Violet Peacock Leonard. He married Brenda Litster March 19, 1970 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple.

He graduated from Carbon High School in 1966 and went on to serve a mission for the LDS Church in the South West British Mission. He graduated from CEU in business and worked as a miner for Plateau Mining Company. He was active in sports and loved music. He was a member of the Easy Street Band.

He is survived by his wife, Brenda, and four children: Jacob Paul, Jessica Ruth, Jared Bert and Jordan Jay, all of Price; his parents, Jack and Violet Leonard, Price; two brothers: Dennis and Brent Leonard, both of Price; and four sisters, Mrs. Frank (Jaquline) Zubal, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Stuart (Sharon) Bettino; Wellington; Mrs. Dave (Kayrene) Kohler, Logan; and Mrs. Carl (Diana) Fox, Salt Lake City.

Funeral services will be held Saturday, Sept. 23 at 1 p.m. at the Price LDS Stake Center. Friends and family may call Friday, September 22 from 7-9 p.m. at Fausett Mortuary and one hour prior to services at the chapel. Burial, Price City Cemetery.

Ronald Arthur Leonard, 27, Price, died Jan. 28, 1983 of injuries he sustained in a coal mining accident. He was born Nov. 27, 1955 in Price to Arthur Gordon and Eva Winder Leonard. He married Gayla Marie Price on Dec. 3, 1977 in Price. She survives. He was employed by Plateau Mining Co. and was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

In addition to his wife, survivors include two daughters, Amber Marie and Lacy Nicole, both of Price; parents, brothers and sisters, Raymond, Arland and Arlinda Wallace, all of Price, Patsy Dobesh, Salt Lake City, Dwight, Juliette, Wyo., and Rodney, Rock Springs, Wyo.

Funeral services were at 2 p.m. Monday at the Price Stake Center. Burial was in Price City Cemetery. Fausett Mortuary was in charge of arrangements.

A mining accident at Getty's Plateau Mining Co. southwest of Price Friday morning resulted in the death of one coal miner and minor injuries to a second miner. Ron Leonard, 27, Price, was pronounced dead on arrival at Castleview Hospital shortly after 5 a.m. Friday. The second injured miner, Dennis Jensen, 38, Carbonville, was taken to Castleview Hospital where he was treated and released.

According to Floyd Tucker, general manager of Plateau Mining Co., federal and state investigators are currently investigating the accident. Tucker said mine operations were idled following the accident Friday. Operations resumed with the graveyard shift Sunday night.

KENILWORTH. Carbon County -Death toll in the Independent Coal and Coke Co. coal mine dust explosion was swelled to three Thursday, with two more miners in critical condition in Price hospital, and six more listed as serious. The blast occurred Wednesday. The rest of the 16-man crew was back at work, four uninjured, and one back on the job after emergency treatment for burns and shock.

The three died of severe burns and injuries. They are Gilmer Nielsen and Clem Hawks, Kenilworth, and Ivan Russell Jackson, Price.

Being treated are Richard Sarrimond, Arthur Smith, David Bennett and Arthur Lermusiax in Price hospital, and Nick Markakis, Iven Jensen, George Archibque and Felipe Armizo are in Kenilworth hospital. Alcaria Quintane was treated at Kenilworth and was back at work Thursday.

Ivan Russell Jackson, 27, who died Thursday at 3 a. m., was born in Lehi Dec. 1, 1917, a son of John S. and Victoria College Jackson. He had lived in Price two years. Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Vola Holley Jackson, Price; parents, and four sons and daughters, Erven, Verla, Lloyd and LeEarl. Price, and the following brothers and sisters, Lester W. Jackson, Lehi; Forrest Jackson, Draper; Floyd Jackson, Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Violet Chidester and Mrs. Fay Lamb, Price; Mrs. Myrtle Lovendale, Riverton; Mrs. Virginia Rasmussen, Salt Lake City, and Norman and Ronald Jackson, Lehi.

Funeral services to be conducted in Lehi will be announced later by the Wallace mortuary, Price.

Gilmer B. Nielsen, 35, who died Wednesday at 9:10 p.m. in Price hospital, was born June 27, 1909, in Manti, Utah, a son of James and Florence E. Anderson Nielsen. He was a resident of Helper, Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Delma Rostron Nielsen, Helper: his mother, Gunnison; three children, Gilmer Regnol, Bobby J. and Cora Lou Nielsen, Helper, and three brothers, Melvin Nielsen, Lehi; Roldo Nielsen, Long Bench, Cal., and Alfonzo Nielsen, Salt Lake City.

Funeral services will be conducted Sunday at 11 a. m. at the Helper civic auditorium. Burial will be in Manti under direction of Mitchell funeral home, Price.

Too active to loaf around Salt Lake, where he had purchased a comfortable home after more than a quarter of a century in the mines, Daniel Lewis, 55, returned to work at Hiawatha about two weeks ago and in a few days was taken to a hospital in Salt Lake seriously injured. He passed away Monday. He is survived by a widow, four daughters and one son.

Dan Lewis, known all over this section of Utah, came to Castle Gate when that region was first opened about 25 years ago and was one of the original employees of the Pleasant Valley Coal Company. He was a careful workman, thoroughly dependable and he won the confidence of all his associates from the highest officials to the commonest laborer. By saving and wisely handling his money he accumulated about $50,000 and was then persuaded by his family to abandon hard labor and move to the city to spend his days in comfort and ease. Such a life was more irksome than restful to a man of his constitution and habits and he longed for his old associations. The call finally became too strong and he returned to the mines only to meet his death in a few days. The body rests in Salt Lake, where the family will live.

Lettisha Lewis and others have brought suit in the district court at Salt Lake City against the Consolidated Fuel company to recover forty thousand dollars for alleged responsibility of the defendant company for the death of Daniel Lewis at the mines of the company at Hiawatha.

Obituary - Lewis - Injured in a coal mine ten days ago in Hiawatha, Daniel Lewis died last night in a local hospital. Arrangements for the funeral are still pending.

At the time of the disaster, I was a boy of eighteen living at home with my mother and seven brothers and sisters. Our home, which was located in a coal mining town in the mountains of Utah, was known as the Walton House, a short-order house with a few boarders and Mother as general manager. It was May Day, May 1, 1900; the miners began work at 7:00 a.m., as usual, but being May Day they anticipated the celebration which was to take place in the afternoon. A celebration to most miners meant to spend time in the sunshine and fresh air, or to gather at their favorite saloon. That day, instead of taking my usual place on the fifth level of the Number Four Mine, I went into the thick underbrush of ravines and quaking aspen trees to look for our milk cow and her new calf. To our family this meant a fresh supply of milk, and I was to find the cow and the calf and bring them back home. Mother had packed a lunch for me, as I was not expected home to be home until late in the evening. I was happy to be on my way, climbing the trails, enjoying the sunshine and fresh air, and observing the welcome signs of spring, and at the same time listening for the tinkle of the bell which we had tied on the cow's neck.

As I passed over the area which I later learned was almost directly above the fifth level of the mine, I felt the earth tremble. I recall wondering to myself what it could be, and I remember looking at my Ingersol watch which read ten o'clock. Not being able to figure out what caused the earth to tremble, I continued on without giving it any further thought. I searched most of the afternoon before I finally heard the welcome tinkle of the cowbell. Because of the new calf's inability to walk, I carried it most of the way home, so I did not arrive there until after dark.

As the town came into view I was struck by the unusual activity. The entire town was lighted, and nine special railway cars had been left on the main line near our home. As I came nearer I could see that coffee, milk, and sandwiches, along with flowers, were being distributed to the dozens of heart-stricken people I met everywhere. I later found out that the earth tremor which I felt earlier that morning was one of the worst coal mining disasters ever recorded. Two hundred and eight men and boys lost their lives in the dust explosion at the Number Four Mine in Scofield, Carbon County, Utah.

Our home was a hive of activity; food was being served, and help was being given wherever possible. Instead of the reception I had expected I was very unceremoniously shoved into the kitchen, given a dish towel and told to get busy. My sister Libbie managed to give me the bare facts. Our older brother Andrew was in bed unconscious and not expected to live. I was greatly saddened when I was told that Louis Leyshon, a good friend of mine who had taken my place at the mine that day, was still missing. Miraculously my brother Andrew regained consciousness, recovered, and gave his account of the explosion. He was a driver on the first level--a driver being one who handles the horse which pulls the empty cars to the miners, who in turn blast the coal loose and load some 2,200 to 2,500 pounds of coal in each car. These loaded cars were then taken to the main entrance where they were literally dropped down the half-mile track to the exit by the electric hoist. He had just taken empty cars to all of his men and was waiting at the switch about a quarter of a mile from the main entrance. Superintendent Thomas Parmley and General Foreman Andrew Hood happened to come along just at that time, making an inspection tour. Seconds later they felt the blast and were almost knocked off their feet. They all knew it was a serious explosion, and the superintendent instructed my brother to get word to as many men as possible on his level to hurry out this exit and not the usual way which would be in the direct path of the explosion. My brother ran two miles through the mine to tell all of the men on his level what had happened and where to make a safe exit. They were successful in saving the lives of all the men on the first and a few of the men on the second level, but were finally overcome themselves by the after-damp, and all the men on the third, fourth, and fifth levels perished. "After-damp" is the term used when the oxygen has been burned out of the air. Dozens of men lost their lives not knowing where the explosion had taken place or where to get out, for there was absolutely no way to communicate with them.

The persistent and heroic efforts of the superintendent, general foreman and Andrew to save the lives of the miners almost cost them their own lives. Andrew was finally carried home unconscious and that was the way I found him on my arrival home.

I went to see Louis Leyshon's mother the next day, and I shall never forget the anguish and sorrow in her eyes as she said, "Oh if you had only gone to work my boy would be alive!" I could only weep with her as that was a fact. Her boy had taken my place. I promised her I would assist in getting his body out as soon as the air pumps had been replaced.

Unfortunately the mines were very dry and dusty, and very little watering was done to keep down the coal dust which clung to everything about an inch thick. This was especially true on the fifth level where the explosion was believed to have taken place. We do not know what caused the explosion, but I believe it was started by an open twenty-five pound keg of black powder and this was intensified by the accumulation of fine coal dust. After the disaster, many necessary precautions were taken to prevent such a tragedy from recurring, but this was little solace to the widows and orphans of the 208 men who had perished. It was three months or more before all of the bodies had been removed, for many were buried under great rock cave-ins caused by the fact that the timbers had completely blown out. I obtained permission to go to the fifth level where my friend's body was, and with the help of others, finally located the badly burned body of the finest friend a boy could ever have, Louis Leyshon, who had taken my place that day.

Martin, Carbon County -- Funeral arrangements for nine men killed in the mine blast here were completed Tuesday. The blast occurred Monday at Carbon Fuel Co.'s No. 2 mine west of here.

Heino Linn, 38, Price, was born April 10, 1925, at Eastonia, Germany, to Edward and Adel Linn. He married Lea Murry in 1957 at Wellington, Carbon County. He was a mechanic and welder.

Survivors include his widow, son and two daughters, Teddy, Eddy, and Elly, all of Price; parents, one brother and two sisters, all in Germany. Funeral services will be conducted Thursday at 2 p.m. in the Mitchell Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow at the Price Cemetery.

Jim Likich was employed as a coal loader. He sustained accidental injury on December 5, 1935, as the result of a bounce of coal falling from the face of mine, which resulted in death on the same date. The mother of deceased filed claim for compensation, but failed to establish that she was either wholly or in part dependent upon her son for maintenance and support. The Royal Coal Company provided hospital service and medical treatment and paid for the burial of decedent as provided by law.

The sum of $872.35 was ordered paid into the State Treasury of Utah to the credit of the Employee's Combined Injury Benefit Fund for the death of Jim Likich. The claim of Kita Likich for compensation was denied.

Jim Likich, 48, miner at the Royal Coal Co. mine at Rolapp, died last Thursday in the Rolapp hospital of injuries received in an accident in the mine.

Likich was preparing to leave shift and was cleaning up the place where he was working, when he was caught under a fall of coal that fell from the face. He received a fracture of the left pelvis and severe internal injuries. He died two hours after being removed to the hospital.

Likich had been a resident of Carbon county for 12 years. No known relatives survive him. The Flynn funeral home in Price.

The body of Jim Likich, who was killed December 5 in a mine cave-in at Rolapp, Utah, will be returned Friday night to the Brewer-Korisko funeral home. Two nephews survive, Pano Lewis, Matoon, Ill., and Sam Danich, Omaha. Lickich formerly lived in Omaha.

Funeral services for Jim Likich, former Omahan, who died December 5 in Rolapp, Utah, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday from the Brewer-Korisko chapel. Twenty-fourth and K Streets, to St. Nicholas church at 9. Burial will be in Graceland Park cemetery.

Estate of Jim Likich, also known as Ziva Kolkovic, also known as Jim Lickich, also known as Elia E. Kokovich, also known as Ziva Lickich, also known as Ziva Kolkovich, also known as Zivojin Kalkovic, and being one and the same person, deceased. Creditors will present claims with vouchers to the undersigned at Price, Utah, or to Henry Ruggeri, Attorney at Law, Price, Utah, on or before the 22nd day of April. A.D. 1939.

Catherine Ross, Administratrix of the Estate of Jim Likich, also known as Ziva Kolkovic, also known as Jim Lickich, also known as Elia E. Kokovich, also known as Ziva Lickich, also known as Ziva Kolkovich, also known as Zivojin Kalkovic, and being one and the same person deceased. Henry Ruggeri, Attorney for Adminstratrix, Date of first pub. February 16, 1939. Date of last pub., March 9, 1939

John Lilikas, Greek miner, married (wife, but no children), aged 30 years, came to his death July 19th, 1913, at No. 1 Mine, Clear Creek.

Lilikas and partner, John Corporas, who has his leg broken, were drawing pillars on the face of the fourth left back entry. In driving the entry, the top coal, about three feet in thickness, had been left up for roof. While pulling the pillars, several bounces had occurred, which loosened the top coal, some falling on the entry tracks. While loading up this fallen coal, a heavy bounce occurred, bringing down some twelve tons of coal, a part of which fell on Lilikas, causing his death.

Le Monte Liljenquist, American, employed as car dropper, single, aged 21 years, was instantly killed in the yards at the Kenilworth Mine, on September 15th, 1913. Liljenquist was getting off the front board of the shay locomotive in order to throw a switch, when his foot caught between the railroad ties, and he was thrown on the rail, the front trucks of the engine passing over his body, just above the hips.

David Pilton, a Finlander, 34 years of age, single, was killed at the Winter Quarters mine, August 30, 1909. At place of accident the roof rock was in composition known as shale rock, somewhat seamy at intervals of from 12 to 24 inches. Two days before the accident, there had been a cave of rock in the room near the face which was about 10 inches thick, leaving a lip or slab 10 inches thick between the point of cave and face of room, which, in the judgment of Pilton and his partner was safe enough to work under without putting props under it, until half an hour before the accident, when they put up a prop and cap piece placed parallel to, and inside of the seam running through the rock, making the prop and cap-piece useless as a support to the rock that fell. If the cap-piece had been put across the seams, running through the rock, and another in a like position three or four feet to the right of it, the rock would have been held in place without danger of it falling, but as it was, the rock fell as Pilton was going forward toward the face to assist his partner to drill a hole, killing him.

An inquest having been held at the residence of James Adams, in Winter Quarters Precinct, Carbon County, on the 31st day of August, 1909, before James Adams, justice of the peace, in Winter Quarters Precinct, in said county, upon the body of David Pilton, there lying dead, by the jurors whose names are hereto subscribed, the said jurors upon their oaths do say, that David Pilton came to his death by a fall of rock due to careless timbering, and we exonerate the Utah Fuel Company from any blame whatever.

Research note: Daytti Lillott and David Pilton under the Winter Quarters Pleasant Valley coal Company are possibly the same person. They both have the same death date (30 Aug 1909), same death place (Winter Quarters), same marital status (single), same birth place (Finland) and the same cause of death (Fall of rock). Daytti Lillott has a death certificate and David Pilton does not. David Pilton is listed in the Biennial coal mine inspectors' book and Daytti Lillott is not.

Emil Lind, a Swedish miner, aged 44 years, single, was injured in the face of No. 1 room, eighth Right entry, Aberdeen mine, Kenilworth, on January 14th, 1912. Lind and partner, one Carl Pearson, had commenced undermining their working place on the night of the 13th. Sunday morning, the mine not working, they went into their working place to prepare coal for the following day. Lind sat down to commence undermining, when his partner suggested that he examine the face of coal to see if there were any loose or detached pieces of coal. Without following the suggestion, Lind commenced undermining and within three minutes the coal fell on him, injuring him so that he died while being removed to the hospital.

Holy rosary was recited Sunday in the Fausett Mortuary Chapel and requiem Mass was celebrated Monday at 11 a.m. in the Notre Dame de Lourdes Catholic Church for Albert Listello, 52, Price, who died Thursday in the Dragerton Hospital following an illness. (Sources state that he was crushed by a coal car and later died because of complications and infection from the incident.

He was born February 4, 1913, at Bruzolo Turin, Italy, to Dominick and Camilia Liay Listello. He was married to Mary Frisa September 15, 1934, in Price. He was a coal miner for the Kaiser Steel Corporation and a member of the Catholic Church.

Survivors include his widow; son, daughters, Larry Listello, Mrs. Robert (Irene) Fratto, both of Price; Mrs. William (Lorine) Bezyach, Ogden; two grandchildren; brothers, sisters, Mrs. Louis (Teresa) Motte, Mrs. William (Olympia) Case, both of Price, mother, Price. Burial was in the Price City cemetery.

Arnold G. Livingston, 29 years of age, nipper for the United States Fuel Company, was instantly killed at 3 o'clock this afternoon when a "bounce" or burst of coal, struck the rear of the trip which he was riding. He died instantly from a broken neck and multiple skull fractures. The body was brought to the Flynn funeral home tonight and arrangements are being made to hold the services in Castle Dale.

Mr. Livingston was born at Castle Dale, the son of A. G. and Hannah Adler Livingston. For the past six years he had been employed by the United States Fuel company at Mohrland and Hiawatha, and for three year previous to that had worked in the mines at Blackhawk and neighboring camps. Mr. Livingston is survived by his widow and two children, Dale 4, and Lois 2.

Kenilworth, Carbon County, July 16, Bertie Llewelyn, 42, Kenilworth, who was employed as a shovel operator by the Independent Coal & Coke Co., died Thursday night at 10:35 p.m. from injuries sustained in a mine accident.

Reports from the mine office stated that Mr. Llewelyn, was pinned between the rear conveyor and the main motor frame, and that the resultant injuries suffered included a compound fracture at the base of the skull and severe internal chest injuries. He was working on the c-shift and the accident occurred at 5 a.m. Thursday.

The victim was rushed to the Kenilworth hospital, where he was under treatment for 18 hours before he died. Investigating the accident is S. A. Dobbs, Utah State Mine Inspector, who stated that the cause of the mishap had been undetermined late Friday.

Surviving Mr. Llewelyn, who was born in Scofield in 1905, are his widow, Mrs. Beulah Llewelyn, and an adopted son, Jimmie, both of Kenilworth; his mother, Mrs. Florence Hunt Llewelyn, and a brother, Lional Llewelyn, both of Murray. Funeral services will be conducted July 19, at 11 a.m. at the Kenilworth amusement hall. Burial will be in the Price City Cemetery with Clive Worthen, officiating.

On the day of the explosion, while the turmoil and excitement was at its height, a couple of young men appeared at the mouth of tunnel Number Four, and asked permission to go in and search for their brother, Ben Lloyd. At that time it was considered madness to venture on the inside, and the management refused to let the boys go to what seemed certain death. They persevered, however, finally going in under protest. After a search of two hours they came upon the place where Ben was last seen alive, and together they dug out his remains.

He came to Scofield as one of the early pioneers in the settlement of that community; he moved into a log cabin and made preparations to bring his wife from Colorado. After she had arrived, he built a new home for her and they were established as comfortable and as well as any in the community. He was employed in the mines at Winter Quarters and had purchased a large acreage of grain and hay land, which it is believed he intended to go into the livestock business. Being a very industrious and progressive man, he took part in the civic and fraternal affairs of the community. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias, a popular fraternal organization; also a member of the School board and was instrumental in establishing a new school building in the community. He was affiliated with the Methodist church and read the Bible to a great extent.

PRICE, Sept. 12 - Authorities today investigated an accident at the Rains Coal Co. mine near here last night that killed two miners and injured a third. Killed were Victor Lobasky, 46, Rains, and Matt Naturale, 23, Wellington. Taken to the Price hospital, where he was reported in fair condition was Oliver Cramer, 40, Elmo.

May 5, 1902 - On this date, James Locke, an elevator boy, was killed at the Castle Gate Mine. At the time of the accident Locke was working near the elevator, that conveys the coal to the railroad cars, and in some unknown manner he was caught in the elevator and killed. Nis neck, both legs and left arm were broken.

...in regards to the accident in which James Locke was killed, I will say that I visited the place of accident and found it to be in no way a dangerous one; all the testimony that was given went to show that he was standing on the platform about four feet below the shaft. The platform was 6 feet by 7 feet; the shaft was 3 1/2 inches by 6 feet long and was smooth, except for one key slot. In this case I must say that it was purely accidental.

Castle Gate - May 6, 3:30 o'clock this afternoon James Locke, working on the elevator which carries the coal up from the bottom of a coal chute, was caught in the shift and carried around with it a number of times before the machinery could be stopped, breaking his neck and otherwise mangling him and killing him instantly. He is 15 years of age, and a son of John Locke, who works at the coke ovens. An inquest was held last night before Coroner T. T. Lamph. This is the second son of Mr. Locke who has met an untimely death, a former son having been killed in the explosion at the Alma, Wyo., coal mine about a year ago.

Castle Gate, Utah - May 6 - The Coroner's jury returned a verdict of accidental death in the case of James Locke, killed at the coal chutes. The coal company was exonerated.

Research notes: There is a James Locke, age 14, born April 1886, in the 1900 U S Census for Castle Gate. The accident occurred in 1902 so James Locke would be age 16 at the time of the accident. In the accident report he is referred to as an elevator "boy".

Helper - Dec. 12, Two men were killed and one seriously injured Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. in a cave-in at Castlegate mine No. 2. The dead are D. A. Long, 33, and Wilmer Wright, 44. R. J. Hyaitt is in a critical condition at the Castlegate hospital, his back broken. The men were working on a coal loading machine in the last crosscut in No. 4 room, sixth panel, when several tons of coal dropped out of a pocket in the roof, burying them. Long and Wright were dead when rescuers reached them. Hyaitt was the operator of the coal loading machine, assisted by Long. Wright was the mechanic of the coal loader.

Long had been employed by the Utah Fuel company for 15 years. He was He was a native of Salina and the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Long. Surviving are his widow; three children, Lois, Raedell and Lorine Long; parents; brothers, Emery Long and Vernon Long of Salina; and sisters, Mrs. Arthur Prows of Salina, Mrs. Verda Dalton of California and Mrs. Irene Ryan of Milford.

Wright had been employed by the Utah Fuel company since last August 14. He was born at Minden Mines, Mo., son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer Wright. Surviving are his parents; sister, Mrs. Nettie Marsh of New York City, and a 16 month old daughter.

S. E. Long, an American, 24 years old and married, leaves a wife and three children, who reside at Winter Quarters Mine, by a chunk of coal 3 feet long, 2 feet wide and 18 inches thick, which tapered to 4 inches, fell on his head and dislocated his neck. The coal fell from a slip which was unobserved until after the accident.

Price - Two Sunnyside coal miners, Antonio (Tony) Lopez, 24, and Nito Albarado, 52, were killed by falling rock Tuesday afternoon while trying to make an air course of the mine safe, according to R. J. Schultz, Price, state mine inspector.

The two men had cleared away loose rubble on the mine floor and were ready to set a timber prop in place to strengthen the mine ceiling when an 18-inch thick cap rock fell, killing them, Mr. Schultz said. He said it is mine practice to keep all air courses clean and free of fallen rock and coal to facilitate air passage and use of the tunnel as an emergency exit if needed.

Mr. Schultz said the area of the mine where the men were killed was shaken by a mine explosion in 1945 and the ceiling there was known to be loose and dangerous. Awaiting word from relatives, funeral arrangements were pending for the two miners killed.

Dragerton, Utah - A 57-year-old coal miner was killed late Friday in a rock slide in the Horse Canyon coal mine east of here.

Jesus Lopez of Price, the father of 11 children, was buried under some 10 feet of coal. Lopez was reportedly operating a joy, an instrument which scoops coal from the mine interior, when the freak slide occurred. The slide took place about 1 1/2 miles below the surface of the mine in the Book Cliff Mountains.

HELPER - Holy Rosary was recited Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Mitchell Funeral Chapel and Requiem Mass was celebrated this morning at 10 a.m. in St. Anthony's Catholic church, Helper, for Joe D. Lopez, 59, Helper, who died June 9 at Carbon Hospital of injuries suffered June 6 in a mine accident at Castle Gate.

He was born July 18, 1908 at Trinidad, Colo., to Marcial and Maria Agetha Marquez Lopez. He married Regina Lopez March 26, 1930, at Del Norte, Colo. He was a member of the Catholic church and United Mine Workers of America.

Bernie Larimor, an American, 18 years old and single, was killed February 16, 1920, Liberty Fuel Company, by being run over by car. He was a driver and in coming onto the parting he was riding on the front end of the car and was holding on to a chunk of coal, with his right hand, which broke when he pulled the pin out of the gun to liberate the horse from the car. He fell in front of the car which ran over him injuring him so that he died 6 hours later.

The victim was injured underground by a runaway trip at Sunnyside, Kaiser Coal mine.

This is a review of a proceeding of the Industrial Commission under our Workmen's Compensation Act. A workman under the name of Joe Melich as a miner was in the employ of the Standard Coal Company operating a coal mine or mines in Carbon County. He, on September 22, 1928, was killed, admittedly in the course of his employment. He had been in the employ of the company only about 2 days.

Kate Lulich, residing at Perusic, Austria, now Yugoslavia, claiming the true name of Joe Melich to be Joe Lulich. And she his widow and a dependent, through consul at Yugoslavia communicating with consul at San Francisco, in due time, in 1929, filed an application with the commission for compensation, alleging she was the widow of the deceased and dependent upon him for support. Whether she was the widow and a dependent was the only issue tried. Ten hearings were had before the commission between 1929 and 1932; the first two or three the applicant being unrepresented by counsel. The hearings were continued from time to time to give the parties opportunity to produce further evidence; the last six or seven hearings the applicant being represented by counsel but as to the real and only issue in the case the commission merely found "that applicant herein," Kate Lulich, "has not discharged her burden of proof that the said Joe Melich (or Lulich) who was fatally injured at Standardville, Utah, on September 22, 1298, was her husband and that she was dependent upon deceased for maintenance and support."

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SUNNYSIDE -- A 38 year old Carbon County Coal miner was killed instantly here yesterday in a roof cave-in at Kaiser Steel Corp's No. 2 mine. Vernon Lund, Dragerton, died of head injuries. Officials said Lund was the only member of a crew that was struck by the falling coal. It was not known how the accident occurred.

F. W. Lynch, age 41, diamond drill runner at Clear Creek Mine, single, died March 14, 1916 due to fall of rock.

A.N. McBeth, 41 years of age, a miner in the Standardville Coal Company mine, was instantly killed Friday morning when he was caught beneath a fall of rock, at 10:30 o'clock. Surviving the deceased are his widow and five children, all living at Standardville. Funeral services were held Sunday and interment was in the Price City cemetery.

EAST CARBON, Ramsay Macdonald, 43, Price, was crushed to death by falling rock Wednesday as he placed supports below the roof of U. S. Steel's Geneva Coal Mine. U. S. Steel officials said Macdonald was a roof bolter at the mine and was setting safety props, jack-like devices which hold the roof up until bolts are in place, when the accident occurred. The firm said it had begun an investigation of the incident.

Ramsay Macdonald, age 43, was killed in a mining accident at the Geneva Steel Mine at East Carbon Utah, Wednesday May 5, 1976.

Born August 3, 1932 in Rock Springs, Wyoming, to Alexander and Margaret Crawford Macdonald. Married Ann Dart at Price, Utah, November 27, 1959. Attended both U of U and University of Wyoming. He is member of Phi Delphi, Theta Fraternity. Member Methodist Church U.M.W. of A. and also served with armed forces of United States Navy.

Survivors include: his wife, sons, and daughters, Ian, Mark, Pamela, Mary Margaret of Price, Utah; his mother Margaret Macdonald of Seattle, Washington; 2 brothers, Donald Macdonald of Rock Springs, Wyoming; and Ian Macdonald of Seattle. Washington. Services will be held Saturday May 8, 1976, at 11:00 a.m. in Price Methodist Church with Reverend Clare Nelson officiating. Friends may call Friday evening from 7-9 p.m. at the Fawcett Mortuary. Burial in Price City Cemetery.

Monroe Magnuson, 24, was instantly killed by a roof fall in the No. 1 mine of the Spring Canyon Coal company Thursday night. Magnuson was fire boss and was working alone in the mine during the night shift. When the Friday morning shift entered the mine to start work, Magnuson was beneath a huge section of the roof weighing about six tons which had become detached and fallen upon him. He was extricated and the body brought to Price.

Monroe Magnuson was born at Castle Dale August 18, 1903, the son of Adolph W. and Emily Nelson Magnuson. Surviving are his parents, a widow, Orilla Guymon Magnuson, two brothers, Charles and George Magnuson of Castle Dale, and one sister, Edith Magnuson, of Castle Dale and several uncles.

Mr. Magnuson was a stock buyer for several years, and has been in the mining game for the past two years. Funeral services will be conducted Sunday at Huntington at two o'clock p.m. under the direction of Bishop Frank C. Grange of the L. D. S. church. Interment will be in the Huntington cemetery.

The accident was the second mine accident occurring in this vicinity in two days. Monroe Magnuson, 24, fire boss at the Spring Canyon Coal company mine, No. 1 was found dead Friday, crushed beneath a six-ton rock. He is survived by his parents, two brothers, and his bride of three months.

Castle Dale, Emery County - Funeral services will be Monday at 1 p.m. in the Castle Dale LDS Ward Chapel for Paul Magnuson of Castle Dale, who died Thursday afternoon in a mine accident at the Carbon Fuel Co. in Martin. Friends call Fausett-Etzell Mortuary, Price, Saturday afternoon, Fausett-Etzel Mortuary, Castle Dale, Sunday 6-9 p.m. family home, Monday, 11 a.m. until services. Graveside services by American Legion, Castle Dale City Cemetery.

Born Oct 23, 1924, Castle Dale to Charles and Ellen Jeffs Magnuson. Married Barbara Ann Rich, Oct 27, 1945, Grand Junction, Colo. Solemnized in Manti LDS Temple, Castle Dale City councilman. Survivors: widow; son, daughters, Rulon Paul, Kenna DeAnn, Marilyn Kay, Paula Ann, all Castle Dale; father, Salt Lake City, brothers, Jack, Castle Dale; Gary, Provo; sisters, Mrs. Don (Twilla) Clark, Mrs. Janice Kauffmen, Mrs. Alfred (Valora) Nolan, Mrs. Burt (Norma) Page, Mrs. Lyman (Elda) Brinkerhoff, all of Salt Lake City; Mrs. Gaylon (Ruth) Christensen, Manti.

HELPER - Two coal miners were killed Thursday when two feet of top coal caved in at the Carbon Fuel Co. Mine near Helper. Company officials identified the victims as Sam Pinarelli, Spring Glen, and Paul Magnuson, Castle Dale.

Rescue workers said they were buried when the roof in the section of the mine caved in about 10:30 a.m. The two men were the only workers in the area. The mine is located about four miles west of Helper and employs about 30 workers. State mine inspector Frank Ularich was on the scene and began an immediate investigation.

Domico Maherino, Italian, 26 years of age, married, wife and two children in Italy; was injured at Sunnyside power-house September 24th, 1908, so that he died six hours later. Maherino was running larry car hauling coal to power-house, and in coming toward crusher with empty car, he did not change trolley pole to rear of car, while crossing railroad track to pea coal bin; he was pulling trolley pole down with rope, the rope broke, causing him to fall in front of larry car, the front wheels passing over his arm and leg. Maherino had previously taken off the old rope and put on a smaller one. No inquest.

A powder discharge which had failed to explode claimed the life of one man and seriously injured two others in the King Mine No. 1 at Hiawatha about 4 o'clock Monday morning. Gus Helston, 31 was instantly killed and Mat Rauhaula, 50, and Arne Main, 21, his companions suffered severe bruises and cuts around the face and chest. Rauhaula was taken to Salt Lake by J. P. Russell, safety first engineer, Monday afternoon, while Main was taken in Monday morning. His condition was so serious he could not be moved sooner.

The men were working in the main tunnel, a mile and a half within the mine, when they picked into the powder, which evidently had been placed there some time ago by workmen while blasting. All of the men were badly cut by the explosion. Deceased was born in Brohesda, Finland January 20, 1898 the son of Moses and Henrietta Thompson Helston.

Helston is survived by his wife, Amy and three children, Jack, 5; Amy, 4 and Colleen, 2. He had worked around the mines in Scofield, Clear Creek and Hiawatha practically all of his life. Funeral arrangements have not been made. Remains are in charge of the J. E. Flynn Funeral Parlors. At the time of her husband's death, Mrs. Helston was visiting with relatives in Scofield.

Rauhaula is married and is survived by six children, while Main is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Mat Main of Scofield and is unmarried.

December 14th, 1929, No. 1 Mine of the Spring Canyon Coal Company, Spring Canyon, Utah. Ed Maler, Swede, age 22, single. Fatally injured by a falling piece of coal, part of which coal he was pulling down from the face, made loose by the shots of the night before.

Accidents in Carbon mines claimed three victims during the past week, and fatalities since the first of the month mounted to four. Frank Nemanich, 31, an employee of the National Coal Company died in Consumers hospital Thursday morning from injuries received in a fall of rock and Thomas Richards, 42, and Joe Turra, 32, a native of Italy was fatally injured by a gas pocket explosion in the Spring Canyon mine about 9 o'clock Monday evening.

The latter two men were working together as machinemen in mine No. 3 at Spring Canyon at the time of the blast and were not recovered from the mine until nearly midnight. They were dead when found by the search party and had suffered burns and concussion.

It has not been determined what caused the gas in the room to ignite, though the supposition has been advanced that a spark from the machine which the men were operating may have been the cause.

Richards was born in Utah forty-two years ago and has lived in Carbon county practically all of his life, employed in the coal fields, with the exception of a few years, when he was engaged in farming at Cleveland. He is survived by his wife, Kate, one daughter, Ellen May, 5, four sons, Durnell, 16, Hyrum, 14, Nevin, 12, David, 10 and his mother Mrs. Hannah Richards of Cleveland, Utah. At the time his family was living in Ogden. He is well known throughout this section of the state.

Turra has a wife, Reta, and one daughter, Mary, aged 1, living in San Francisco, California. His parents are both dead. He has been employed at Spring Canyon only since September. Remains of the two men are in charge of the J E. Flynn Funeral Parlors.

Nemanich was buried by a cave-in Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock and died from the injuries about 4 o'clock the next morning. He suffered a broken back, broken leg, fractured pelvis, broken shoulder and collar bone and several broken ribs all on the right side. A number of timbermen were ahead of Nemanich when the fall occurred, but they all escaped injury.

He was born in Detroit in 1898 and is survived by a wife Annie Nemanich and several children who now reside in Austria. Funeral services will be held under the direction of the Knights of Pythias at Helper January 26 with burial in Helper. Remains are in charge of the Tingley Mortuary.

Roy Manchester, 33, one of the leading baseball players of this region was instantly killed yesterday morning, by a fall of rock from an overhanging slope in the No. 1 mine at Kenilworth. Manchester was just going to work with the 11 o'clock shift, and was entering a new drift when the huge piece of slate dropped on his head, fracturing his skull and the neck at the fourth cervical vertebrae. His left ankle was broken, also.

Roy Manchester was born in Rancine, Mo, in 1889. He was the son of Amos and Betty Manchester. He grew to manhood in his native county and developed into a noted baseball player in that region. He had played several seasons with fast professional clubs, when he came to Utah to play with the Mohrland club.

For several seasons he was one of the leading catchers in this section of the state. He was a powerful batsman, and handled his pitchers well. Last season he did not play, however, remaining at Kenilworth, where he was employed in the mine. He was being counted on to help out with the Kenilworth club this season, by the management.

Manchester formerly played in Price, where he was intensely popular with the fans of this locality. Roy Manchester is survived by his widow, Mrs. Jessie Cole Manchester of Kenilworth, four daughters, Thelma, a 17 year old student at Carbon County High School, Murice, 11; Margaret, 7 and Betty Jane, 10 months; one son, Jackie, four years old; two brothers, Amos Manchester of Mohrland and Ernest Manchester of Redlands, California, two sisters, Mrs. W. F. Mays, of Redlands, Calif., and Mrs. E. Ray Lee of Price.

Funeral arrangements have not been completed as yet. The body is at the Flynn mortuary in Price, pending definite plans.

Mrs. Manchester, (the widow returned from her mother's funeral two hours before her husband started the fatal shift in the mine. The mother of Mrs. Manchester died suddenly last week at the home in Kansas and Mrs. Manchester and the two youngest children had made the trip to the old home for the funeral services. They returned about 9 o'clock Thursday morning, shortly before Mr. Manchester entered the mine.

Funeral services were held at the Price Community church Sunday afternoon for Roy Manchester, accident victim of Kenilworth, Thursday morning Rev. H. M. Merkel officiated. Musical numbers were furnished by the Price Community church choir, under the direction of Mrs. R. M. Jones. Interment was in the Price City cemetery.

Roy Manchester was born at Worland, Mo., September 29, 1891. He was married to Jessie Cole of Kansas in 1910. Shortly after marriage, they moved to Carbon County, where they have made their home since that time. Mr. Manchester is survived by his widow and the following children: Mildred, Maurice, Margaret, John and Betty.

PRICE - A mine cave-in has killed a 56-year-old Price man. Authorities say Paul Manchester was working at the Swisher Coal Co. mine when a section of roof collapsed on him Friday. A section of rock 30 feet long and 10 feet thick came down inside the mine and buried Manchester, officials said. The mine is 12 miles northwest of Price. Gordon Manchester, 20, the victim's son, was working nearby and suffered facial lacerations, officials said.

Mike Mandos, a Greek miner, aged 23 years, single, was found dead on the first Left entry, No. 3 mine, Sunnyside, on the 29th of August, 1912. Mandos' working place was the first left entry proper, but sometime during the day he had wandered into the first slant inside the fault, which had been giving off some black damp for several days, and in which Mandos met his death. Why he left his own working place and wandered into this slant, will never be known. On the day previous, two men had worked in the slant, but were not working on the day Mandos was found dead. He was missed from his working place by the fire boss when making his regular rounds delivering caps on the afternoon of August 29th. Thinking this unusual as his coat and watch were hanging on a prop near the face, the fire boss made inquiry of the miners in the immediate vicinity, but could learn nothing of Mandos' whereabouts. The fire boss made a second visit about 3:45 o'clock finding no trace of Mandos, decided he had gone to catch the mantrip. When the miners had all checked out, Mandos' check was still on the board and a searching party consisting of Superintendent Bailey, Zeff Thomas, Jake Middleton, fire-bosses Farrimound and Richards, and the Greek interpreter, went into the mine and found the body of Mandos laying near the rib on the first slant of the first Left entry.

Efran Manzanares was born January 3, 1906 in Blanca, New Mexico. In the 1940 U.S. census he was living in Ignacio, La Plata, Colorado and was married to Martina. They had two daughters, Layola age 3, and Lisaida age 9/12. He died on May 9, 1945 in the Sunnyside mine explosion. At the time of his death he had three children. His body was returned to IIgnocea, Colorado for burial.

PRICE, Feb. 6 - Martin Marcen, 29, died in Price hospital late Friday night from injuries suffered the previous afternoon in the Liberty Fuel company mine at Latuda. Marcen was driving a horse attached to a loaded car in the mine when the car tipped over. He was caught under the car and the frightened horse dragged the empty car, with Marcen beneath it, for 30 feet before other miners stopped the animal.

Funeral services were held Sunday from the Spring Glen School house for Rudolph Marcen, 21, who was killed in the Liberty Fuel mine at Latuda December 8 when his head was crushed between a loaded car and the roof of the mine. Interment was at Helper under the direction of the J. E. Flynn Funeral parlor. Marcen was born in Kansas April 13, 1909, the son of Martin Catherine Palen Marcen. Surviving are his father and five brothers and sisters. He had worked in Latuda for five years.

Research note: if he was 21 and had worked for 5 years he would have started at age 16.

Mrs. Addie Marcen, widow of Rudolph Marcen, was denied compensation for the accidental death of her husband in the Liberty Fuel Company mine at Latuda December 8, 1930, but the victim's father, Martin Marcen, Brodhead, Colo., was awarded $25 per month for a period not to exceed 72 months. The widow's application was denied on the ground that she was not living with her husband or receiving support from him at the time of his death.

Price, Dec. 9 (Special) - his head crushed between the roof of the mine and a loaded coal car, Rudolph Marcen, 21, a driver in the Liberty Fuel company's mine at Latuda, was killed Monday. Marcen was driving a horse car through the mine, according to officials. He was standing on the front bumper of the car and raised his head above the edge of the vehicle in a low spot. A protruding ledge caught his head and crushed his skull. His legs also were broken. Marcen was unmarried. He is survived by a brother, Martin, who worked with him at Latuda, and a father, Martin Marcen Sr., who is said to be living at Broadhead, Colo.

PRICE, Dec. 20 - Aleck Marshall, 40, a coal miner employed at the Spring Canyon Coal company, at Standardville, was instantly killed in a cave-in Saturday while working in the mine with his 17-year-old son, who escaped injury. Mr. Marshall came here recently from Dubuque, Iowa, where his widow and seven children reside.

Castle Gate, Utah - A mine shaft roof fell on three miners Thursday, killing two of them, as they cut through supporting columns to get the last available coal, officials said. Carbon County Sheriff Albert Passic said the men were "pulling pillars" - the final columns of coal left after 85 percent of the coal had been removed - when the mine caved in on them. Passic said he got the description of the accident from the surviving miner, Robert Nielsen, 38, who was listed in good condition at Carbon Valley Hospital Passic said Nielsen told him he was standing near a man-made support column in the Braztah No. 3 mine.

Killed in the cave-in were John Davies, Jr., 24, of Carbonville and Charles Marchello, 49, of Spring Glen. Sheriff's dispatcher Cliff Shotwell said none of the other 60 miners in the No. 3 mine were injured in the 6 a.m. cave-in. Braztah Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of the McCulloch Oil Corp. of Los Angeles, operates two mines in the area. It employees about 450 people in Utah.

SPRING CANYON - Sparo Melinkovich, a Spring Canyon mine timberman, was killed last night and two other miners injured when coal from the roof of Spring Canyon Coal Co. mine collapsed. Philip Montez, Spring Canyon, suffered shock and bruises, and Frank Lessar, 32, Price, sustained minor injuries. The cause of the mishap was being investigated.

Irenenee Markos Markakis and Despina Markos Markakis, and Evangeline Markos Markakis, mother and sister respectively of Manousos Markakis, alias Mike Markakis, deceased, by Nikias C. Calogeras, their attorney in fact vs. Utah Fuel Company. On the 8th day of March, 1924, Mike Markakis was killed by an explosion in Mine No. 2 of the Utah Fuel Company at Castle Gate, Utah. At the time of the fatal injury he was receiving a wage sufficient in amount to entitle any surviving dependents to the maximum compensation allowed by law. On the date of the fatal accident decedent left surviving him his mother and sisters above named, residing at Drymiscos, District of Agios, Vasilios, Crete, Greece, who had for some time prior to his death been receiving regular contributions from the decedent.

John Marcovich, an Austrian, 25 years old and single, was injured December 30, 1919, Sunnyside No. 1 Mine. He was pulling props preparing to brush roof, when all of a sudden a piece of top coal fell and struck and injured him so severely that he died January 9, 1920, St. Mark's Hospital.

John Markovich, 29, a miner at Spring Canyon was instantly killed and Tom Corak, 44, was injured in a falling roof at the no. 1 mine of the Spring Canyon coal company at Spring Canyon Thursday night at 11 o'clock. An entire section of the roof fell as the men worked beneath it, and Markovich was directly in the path of the falling rock. He was badly mangled with almost every bone in his body broken.

Corak sustained a fractured ankle and had bruises in the "accident". He was removed to the Spring Canyon hospital where last minute reports on his condition were favorable.

Markovich was a new man in Spring Canyon, having come out last September to join his uncle Mr. Corak. He is survived by his mother and sisters in Chicago. Both the victims were Austrians.

Markovich's body is at the funeral home of J. E. Flynn at Price, where it will be held pending advice from the family in Chicago. Upon the receipt of word from them funeral arrangements will be announced.

PRICE, Feb. 4 - John Marcovich, 29, was killed, and Tom Corak, 44, his uncle, was seriously injured, when a portion of the roof collapsed in the Spring Canyon coal mine No. 1 Thursday night. Miners worked nearly 12 hours to remove Marcovich from beneath the mass of rock.

October 3rd-On this date John Marlotte was killed in the Castle Gate mine. He was struck on the head by some rock, which fell from the roof, causing instant death.

Research note: He is listed on the Castle Gate cemetery records as Giovanni Marlotty, born 29 Oct 1861. Name is listed as Cirvani Marlotti on plot map of cemetery

George Marianakis, Greek, miner, aged 35 years, single, was injured in Mine No. 1 at Clear Creek, Utah, in room No. 5, on pillar between 4 and 5 room, 5th west back entry, February 10th, 1910, at 10:30 o'clock a.m. George Marianakis, George Soridakis and E. M. Zolindakis were working together. Marianakis was digging coal at the face of the pillar, the place was holed through the pillar and Marianakis was in the act of making the hole larger when a large quantity of coal and clod fell from the roof completely burying him and killing him instantly.

An inquest having been held at Clear Creek, Utah, the said jurors upon their oaths do say, that George Marianakis came to his death by accident and a little carelessness on said George Marianakis' part, and do not blame the officials of the company.

In Tuesday's Herald Republican appeared an article which speaks for itself. The reporter who wrote the article must have a vast amount of imagination to draw upon when the opportunity occurs. It reads: Without a relative or friend to mourn his death, George Marinakis, 31 years of age, a Greek, who was killed last Saturday in the Clear Creek coal mine, was buried yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock from the Eber W. Hall undertaking parlors. The body now lies in a lonely grave in Mount Olivet cemetery sans headstone, flowers, or marking, to tell the world that one more mother's son was buried there.

Somewhere in the sunny land of Greece a lonely mother is awaiting anxiously the news from her son, or perhaps a sweetheart waits in vain for the good word that shall come from the land of opportunities, that will bring nearer the approach of the wedding day. Four years ago Marinakis left his home in Greece, coming to America where he hoped to find employment more lucrative than to be obtained in that land where sunshine is distributed in abundance. What sorrows caused by hard labors and worries drive it away from most of the doors of the lowly.

For two years he lived in Salt Lake, where he was known only to his employers as a hard working laborer. Every week some of his earnings went home to Greece where it was used to help support the rest of his mother's family. What sorrows and worries that will come to those in Greece, cannot be realized. The worries when the letters cease to come will grow from year to year, and the hearts that will ultimately be broken cannot be estimated.

George Marmakfo, age 31, died around Feb. 26, 1910. He is buried in the Mount Olivet cemetery, Salt Lake City. Article in Carbon County News 1910-03-04 reference an article in the Salt Lake Herald-Republican.

Salt Lake City - Aug. 28 - Erial Henry Morgan, faceman, was killed Saturday in an accident in Geneva mine south of Dragerton, officials reported. Morgan was timbering on a south slope when he was struck by a trip on a mine car, officials said.

James P Marshall, son of J. H. and L. E. Marshall, was injured in Wattis coal mine, August 27, died August 29 at 3:14 a.m. He was born May 11, 1904, at Sunnyside. Six sisters, four brothers and father and mother survive him. He was 20 years of age. Funeral from S. M. Taylor Chapel at 2 p.m. Sunday, August 31. Interment in City Cemetery.

John W. Marshall, 43 years of age, was killed in the United States Fuel company mine at Heiner shortly after noon Wednesday by a fall of coal. Marshall had been working in the company's mine at Mohrland until the closing down of the camp there, and had then been transferred to Heiner, where he worked two days this week. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Huntington meeting house.

Mr. Marshall is survived by his widow, his parents, seven brothers, Dell, Marian, Arlen, J. I. W. L., Alison, and Jesse Marshall, all of whom reside at Huntington, and the following children: William, Everond, Ellen, Zadella, Ines, Nolan, Marie, Dunne, Wilma, Janice, Ninn, Geneva, and Leah. Mrs. Marshall and the children are now living at Huntington.

Spanish Fork, March 11 - Word was received here this morning that Thomas Martell, aged 25 years and the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Martell of this place, had been instantly killed this morning at one of the mining camps near Price by coming in contact with a live wire. The young man left his home here about a week ago to go to work on the line, and had only been laboring a day or two at the place where he met his death.

The news was a great shock to his friends here, for being of a genial and sunny disposition, he was generally liked. His father was the last democratic marshal of this city. The young man is a nephew of State Senator Henry Gardner, president of the senate. Martell was unmarried. The remains will be brought here this evening.

Young Martell, referred to in the dispatch above was killed last Monday at the mouth of the mine at Black Hawk by coming in contact with a high tension wire. State Mine Inspection Pettit will make an official investigation into the cause of the young man's death. The remains were sent to Spanish Fork last Wednesday.

Thomas C. Martell, American, aged 25 years, single, was killed near the mouth of the Black Hawk Mine, March 10th, 1913. Martell and a companion had gone to the mine for the purpose of securing employment. While waiting for the mine foreman, they stood on the tram track, just outside of the mine entrance. As the motorman was coming out of the mine, and when about 150 feet from where Martell and his companion were standing, he saw Martell on one of the rails, apparently balancing himself, when he threw up his right arm, and in this manner caught hold of the signal wires, the shock from the wires turning him partly around, so that the back of his neck was on the bell line. When released from this position Martell was found to be dead.

During the year 1897 three fatal accidents occurred in my jurisdiction, which resulted in the death of three persons.

The first of these occurred on January 14th, 1897 at about 4:35 o'clock p.m. George H. Martin, a miner employed in the P.V. Coal Company's Winter Quarters Mine No. 1, sustained injuries from which he died within about two and one-half hours; the accident occurred at room No. 8, outside first rise. Martin and partner had started a cross-cut to the next parallel room through the pillars, the top coal at the point where they were at work overhung the bottom coal, and Martin was picking this down when the top coal toppled and bounced out, seven or eight tons falling on him almost entirely burying him. The injury consisted of a fracture of the sacrum, compound fracture of the coccyx, a large wound on the right hip, and bruise of the forehead on the right side, from which death resulted within the time stated.

A Sunnyside miner, James Wylie Martin, 56, was killed Monday afternoon when a rock fell from the roof of Kaiser Steel Coal Mine No. 2 in Sunnyside and struck him on the head.

Christobol Martinez, a Mexican, 27 years old and single, was killed August 11, 1918, No. 1 Storrs Mine, by being caught by picks of chain of the mining machine. Accident was caused by slipping of jack pipe while he was holding it, causing him to lose his balance and his foot was caught in the picks of the mining machine.

PRICE - Joseph Martinez, 32, died Wednesday noon from injuries received when crushed by a loaded coal car a few minutes before in the Standardville mine. Martinez, employed as a driver, was pinched between the car and the shafts by which the cars are pulled by the horses.

Dr. C. L. Kline, physician for the coal company, attributed death to internal injuries. Martinez had been employed at Standardville only two days and was previously connected in a similar capacity with the Utah Fuel company at Castlegate. He was single, and according to mine officials, has a brother living in San Diego, Calif. The body is at the J. E. Flynn Funeral parlors.

COLUMBIA - Joe Sandoval Martinez, 25, died Thursday evening at 10 p.m. of injuries sustained while working in the mine at Columbia when he was struck by a fall of rock coming from the roof of the mine. He received chest and head injuries, dying shortly after the accident.

He was born in Chimayo, N. M., August 27, 1920, a son of Santiago and Guadalupe Sandoval Martinez. He had been in Carbon County for the past eight months. He was single. The body will be taken to Chimayo for burial.

PRICE-Jose Martinez, 36, a rope rider at the National mine, was killed Monday at 3:30 pm. Martinez was making his last trip from the mine to the tipple, and in some manner was crushed between two mine cars. Jack Taylor, state mine inspector, will investigate the accident Tuesday. Martinez had been a Carbon county resident eight years and had worked for the National mine one year. He is survived by his parents in Mexico, his widow, Mrs. Maria Martinez, and two children, Rosa and Isabel Martinez. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 2 pm in the Flynn funeral home and interment will be at the Price City cemetery.

James Martine, 31, Price, died Monday at the Price hospital of injuries sustained when a coal car ran over him in the mine at Wattis where he was working last Friday. In the mine accident his chest was crushed and he suffered severe internal injuries.

Mr. Martine was born June 27, 1908, at Scofield, a son of Frank and Albira Ocellio Martine. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Jennie Tomsic Martine; two children, Arthur Harold Martine and Jackie Louis Martine; two brothers, Mario Martine of Helper and Frank Kenneth Martine of Provo; and two sisters, Mrs. Rose Milano of Price and Mrs. Sarah Bosone of Price. His parents also survive.

Funeral services were schedule for 10:00 a.m. today in the Notre Dame de Lourdes church at Price, Father Milton J. Kelly officiating. Rosary was said at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Mitchell Funeral chapel. Burial was in the Price cemetery.

Four awards were made by the state industrial commission Saturday under the workmen's compensation act. The Utah Fuel company was directed to pay to Giovanni Bergamaschi and Celestine Bergamaschi, father and sister of Emil Berg who lost his life in the disaster at Castle Gate on March 8, 1924.

The Utah Fuel company was also directed to pay to Mario Castrale Cibrario $8 per week for 125 weeks not to exceed $1,000, on account of the death of Bart Cibrario, who perished in the Castle Gate disaster. The beneficiary resides in the province of Torino, Italy.

The Royal Coal Company or the continental Casualty Company, insurance carrier for the coal company is to pay to Melba Martucci for herself and as guardian of her child, the sum of $16 per week for 312 weeks beginning October 8, 1924, and from this amount to pay George Constantine $100 attorney fees. Martucci, husband and father, was killed while in the employ of the coal company.

Research notes: Age 37 died Oct. 7, 1924

Sunnyside - Carbon County - Two coal miners were killed and four of a rescue crew were injured in a series of "bounces" (earth tremors) 3 1/2 miles underground here Wednesday. The tragedy occurred in "Sunnyside No. 1" a Kaiser Steel Co. mine about 120 miles southeast of Salt Lake City.

Crushed under a pile of coal and rock as the roof and sides of the mine tunnel caved in were Leland J. Huntsman, 48, Castle Dale, Emery County, and Morris Marzo, 46, of 545 S. 1st West, Price.

A companion, Phil Pero, of Price, was knocked down by the cascading debris, but escaped serious injury because he was several feet away from where the main cave-in occurred. He and the other two had just started the swing shift at about 3:45 p.m. Wednesday when the tragedy occurred.

A rescue crew of about 16 men, summoned by Pero who made his way to the surface was preparing to remove the bodies of the two dead men when another bounce occurred, injuring four of them. This took place at about 10:40 p.m. Wednesday and delayed removal of the bodies until 2 a.m. Thursday.

Preston Parrish, 49, Sunnyside, two broken bones in his left foot.
John Torrez, 41, Sunnyside, back injury
Wallace Jensen, 46, Sunnyside, broken rib.
William Topolovec, 45, Spring Glen, Carbon County, bruises.
Jensen, Torrez, and Parrish remained in the Permanente Foundation Hospital, Dragerton, Thursday, but were not in serious condition.

The three men were readying a continuous mining machine for operation at the end of a tunnel which slopes downward into the mountainside for about 3 1/2 miles. Marzo was the machine's operator. Huntsman, his helper, and Pero the mechanic. Mr. Pero said the other two men were standing with their back to the mine face replacing some bits in the machine when the earth shuddered, spraying the men with dust and rock. He said he turned and thought he heard Marzo say, "Let's get the h-outa here." "Just then the second bounce hit and I got banged in the head and knocked down," he said. "I started crawling away when the third bounce hit. I looked back, but couldn't see anything but dust and smoke, I just kept crawling away.

Shortly after he reached the surface, a rescue crew was organized, headed by John Peperakis, superintendent of the mine. They found the bodies of the two victims lying head-to-head about six inches apart. They apparently had died instantly. At this point, another terrifying "bounce" shook the mine, loosening more rock and coal and injuring four of the rescuers. The latest casualties were brought out and a fresh crew again went down to remove the bodies. Among those assisting in rescue operations were two Utah mine inspectors, Steve Hatsis and Frank Ularich. A federal mine inspector who happened to be in the area, Thomas Ray, also accompanied the rescue crew.

Morris Marzo was born Dec. 1, 1917, at Mohrland, Emery County, to Mr. and Mrs. Virginia Marzo. He was married to Perena Bladig, July 3, 1949, at Ely, Nev. Survivors include his wife and two children, Jack E., Provo, and Mrs. Jolene Lipan, San Francisco; also a brother, Jack B. Grand Canyon, Arizona, and two sisters, Helen Marzo, Salt Lake City and Margaret Rolando, Helper.

Leland J. Huntsman was born Jan. 1, 1915, to Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Huntsman, Emery City. He is survived by his wife, Ruth, and five children, Dan Lee, Ramona, Ronald, Irene and Calvin. Both bodies were taken to Mitchell Funeral Home, Price, where funeral arrangements were pending.

Spring Glen, Carbon County - The groaning of earth, the crackling of timbers and rock, blinding dust and smoke.

William Topolovec, 45 year old coal miner, told of these terrors Thursday from his home here where he was recovering from the ordeal of a "bounce" or earth tremor 3 1/2 miles underground which almost took his life. He was one of the four rescuers injured in a series of bounces as they were preparing to remove the bodies of two other miners killed by similar cave-ins. Mr. Topolovec told how he and several companions "just naturally" headed for the scene when they heard there had been a cave-in at the 11st West tunnel where two men were reported trapped.

The veteran miner, who had never before experienced a "bounce" in 20 years of coal mining, was among the first to reach Leland J. Huntsman and Morris Marzo who had been crushed to death by falling slabs of coal and rock. "It was like a wall of water, knocking us to the ground." He said, describing the first bounce which hit the rescue party. This sloughed a rib off the mine tunnel, partly burying Mr. Topolovec and three others. While he was trying to gather his wits, another bounce rocked the dust-filled corridor. "This really scared me, because I thought the whole roof was coming in," he later told reporters.

Sunnyside, Utah, June 4 - Two veteran miners died yesterday in a rock cave-in deep inside a central Utah coal mine. A third escaped unhurt, but four rescuers suffered minor injuries in a second rockfall as they tried to remove the two victim's bodies. "I was smacked by some rock and coal." Said Paul Pero, 55 of Price, Utah, who survived the cave-in. "I heard Marzo say "Let's get the h-out of here."

Morris Marzo, 47, also of Price, and Leland Huntsman, 49, of Castle Dale, Utah, were identified by company officials as the victims. Pero said he and the other two miners had just begun their shift when the cave-in hit. "I started crawling away," he said. "I looked back. I couldn't see anything, but dust and debris. I just kept crawling away."

Rescuers worked six hours-much of the time by hand-removing rocks and debris that fell on the bodies in the 1,500 foot deep mine shaft. A spokesman for Kaiser Steel Co. the mine owner, said the cave-in was caused by a minor shifting of earth induced by removal of soft coal in the six foot high shaft.

Ben Mascaro was born 18 March 1892 in Cortale, Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy. His father was Giuseppe "Joseph" Mascaro and his mother was Caterina Guarascio. He and Aquilena DeRose were married in Price, Carbon, Utah on April 7, 1917. Ben died in the Castle Gate mine explosion on March 8, 1924 at the age of 31. He is buried in the Mountain View, Helper, Carbon, Cemetery.

Frank Mascaro was killed last Sunday night about 12:30. He was on his way to work at the coke ovens. They were dropping cars. Frank did not hear the car coming and the car dropper did not see him. The car hit him and killed him. The car was wrecked. Frank's wife is dead. He leaves a son, ten years old.

Research notes: Age 53 died Dec. 3, 1917

SPRING CANYON - Nick Mascara, 30, Helper, died of injuries Thursday morning shortly after he fell under a moving mine car at the Spring Canyon Coal Co. mine. According to reports, Mr. Mascara was working on the tipple bridge as a "tipple dumper" when the accident occurred about 10 a.m. He was taken to the Price City County Hospital in a company ambulance. He died a short time later.

Mr. Mascara was prominent in sports in this vicinity, having played baseball for the Helper Merchants in the Utah Industrial League, and at the time of his death was a member of the Castle Gate, Carbon County Coal League baseball team. Also, at the time of his death, he co-manager of the Helper Kiwanis Little League baseball team.

He was born at Hiawatha, Carbon County, July 28, 1921, a son of Angelo and Francis Congie Mascara. He married Betty Plaza. Mr. Mascara was a member of the United Mine Workers of America and was a veteran of World War II. He enlisted in March, 1943, and was discharged in September, 1945. He was a member of the Carbon Post 21, American Legion.

Surviving are his widow and his mother; a daughter and a son, Kim Marie and Michael Angelo Mascara, and a sister, Mary Mascara, all of Helper. Holy Rosary will be recited at the Mitchell Funeral Home in Price Sunday at 8 p.m. Requiem mass will celebrated at the St. Anthony Catholic Church in Helper Monday at 10 a.m. by the Rev. Edward J. Dowling, pastor.

Nick Mardroviter, a Greek miner, aged 31 years, married, was fatally injured in Castle Gate mine, No. 1, November 9th, 1911. Mardroviter was working on the 13th Rise entry pillar, and, with two partners, was loading two cars with coal, when without any warning a heavy bounce occurred, which threw out a large amount of coal and rock with such force that it derailed the two cars. Mardroviter was caught between one of the cars and the rock and coal, the loose coal and rock completely covering him up. He was released by his partners and taken to the hospital, where he died from the effects of his injuries about four hours later. His injuries consisted of three broken ribs and internal injuries.

Stellis Mathiudakis, a Greek miner, aged 40 years, single, employed as machine runner's helper, was killed at the Aberdeen mine, Kenilworth, December 23rd, 1910, in the 6th Left entry. Mathiudakis and two other men, who were working a Sullivan puncher mining machine, brought the machine from the face of back entry on the 6th level up the first slant, to take it to the main entry, 6th Left. There are three rooms working on the 6th Main, in which there are latch switches. Owing to the entry being driven on a down grade from slope to present face of entry, the drivers leave the latches in the first two rooms closed, so if perchance a car should run wild from the slope, it would run into the room. The drivers had pulled the loaded cars out of the face of entry, allowing the machine miners to work at that point. The drivers opened the room switches as they took the loaded cars out of the entry. The machine runner and helpers brought the machine out of the back entry and as the driver passed the slant switch, the machine was taken to face of entry, which necessitated opening the room switches to get the machine passed on track. The machine men had just reached the entry face with machine and had not gone back to close the first and second room switches, when the boy running the air hoist, which is situated between the fifth and sixth levels, dropped a loaded car in on the sixth left parting at which point on the same track eight other loaded cars were standing. The dropping of the loaded car onto the other eight cars caused them to come together with such force that the blocks under the loaded cars were knocked out, the eight loaded cars then running to face of entry where the machine men were preparing to start mining. When they heard the car running, two of them managed to get into the opening on the lower side of entry. Deceased, however, tried to get out on the upper side, but was caught between the loaded cars and the upper rib.

Because of carelessness on his own part in leaving switches open, Stella Mathindakis, a Greek, was almost instantly killed December 24 at the Aberdeen coal mine at Kenilworth. J. E. Pettit, state coal mine inspector, returned Friday from the scene and, after making an investigation, declared the accident to be the fault of the victim.

Three men, including two machine men and Mathindakis, a machine runner's helper, had just completed work on the face of a back entry in the mine and moved the machine to the face of a front entry. The rules of the mine, to protect the miners, are that the switches leading down a slope to the end of an entry must be open so that an ore car getting loose from above will be turned from the track into a side entry.

The three miners left the switch closed so that cars getting loose above them would smash into the face of the end of the entry. Six cars above the men got loose and with a terrific roar came down on them. Two of the men jumped into a small hole to the side of the entry, but Mathindakis was unable to get out of the way and was crushed to death.

Matt Matievich, 47, was fatally injured at Sweets Mine about 10:00 o'clock Friday morning when his leg was crushed in a fall of coal. He died early Monday at the Price hospital of complications which set in following the loss of the leg.

He was born February 18, 1892, in Gospich, Yugoslavakia, and had lived in this country about 32 years. He had been employed in the coal mines of Illinois and Wyoming before coming to Carbon county. For the past three years he had been at Sweets Mine.

Survivors include a sister in Illinois, a brother in Canada and another brother in Yugoslovakia. Funeral was scheduled for 11:30 o'clock this morning, Thursday, in the Mitchell Funeral chapel, the Reverend T. H. Evans officiating. Interment was in the Price Cemetery.

PRICE - Hit by a fall of top coal while working in the Columbia Steel company coal mine at Columbia, Tony Matsamas, 45, of Price, was fatally injured Thursday. Mr. Matsamas had been a resident of Price 21 years. He was born in Crete, Greece, April 15, 1898, a son of Constine and Irene Pappas Matsamas, and came to the United States 31 years ago.

Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Ida Louise Matsamas; a son, John Matsamas; a daughter, Irene Matsamas, Price and several brothers and sisters in Greece. Funeral services will be conducted Sunday at 3:30 p.m. in the Greek Orthodox church by Rev. Spyridon Economou.

PRICE, April 1 - Funeral services will be conducted Sunday, April 2, for Tony Matsamas, 45, of Price, who was killed in an accident at the Columbia Steel Co. coal mine at Columbia on Thursday. Matsamas was struck by a fall of top coal.

PRICE - Robert Mattingly, 30, an electrician at Kenilworth, was instantly killed Tuesday afternoon while working on a power line at the entrance of the coal mine there. Mr. Mattingly and several others were working on a platform connecting power shovels in the mine, when he grasped a live wire. The shock hurled him to the ground, fracturing his skull and causing other injuries. He was dead when Dr. W. T. Elliott examined him.

Mr. Mattingly had been employed at Kenilworth but a short time. He is survived by his widow and a month old son, Robert Jr. The body is at the Flynn funeral home.

J.E. Petit, state coal mine inspector, has gone to Sunnyside to investigate the circumstances surrounding the accident in Utah Fuel Mine No. 1, last Friday, in which Matt Mavineal, an Austrian, lost his life. Mavineal was crushed to death by a fall of coal. - Herald Republican

Matt Mavinsel, an Austrian miner, aged 40, married, was killed in Sunnyside No. 1 mine, December 9th, 1910. Deceased, with partner, Frank Ubenski, was mining coal at the face of No. 3 off No. 2 room, 1st Right entry. Mavinsel was in the act of mining at the face of his room under some loose coal, which had one free end. After undermining about two feet, he struck a slip or crevice in the coal, which gave the under-mined coal another loose end at the back. Deceased neglected to sprag the coal, which fell, crushing him to death.

James Mavranges, 33, was killed in the Kenilworth mine of the Independent Coal Company shortly before noon Wednesday when he was crushed between two strings of coal cars which met at right angles. Mavranges, mine officials said, was bringing one trip of the cars out of a room and met the other bunch near the entrance.

Mavranges has no relatives in America, but is survived by his mother in Greece. He had mined in Carbon County for the past fifteen years. Mavranges was the seventh miner to meet accidental death in the Carbon coal fields since January 1, and was the second in two days. Funeral services were held Sunday from the Greek Orthodox Church and interment was made in the Price cemetery.

Industrial Commission of Utah, as Administrator of the Employes' Combined Injury Benefit Fund, vs. Independent Coal & Coke Company, for the death of James Maranges.

On February 5, 1930, James Maranges, while employed by the Independent Coal & Coke Company, was driving along the entry when he collided with a loaded pit car and sustained severe injuries which resulted in death on that date. No person or persons filed claim for compensation. The insurance carrier paid for the burial of decedent as provided by law. The defendants were ordered to pay the sum of $998.40 into the State Treasury for the death of James Maranges.

Price, Feb. 3 - A miner was crushed and killed by a falling ceiling in a coal mine which also injured another miner Thursday at 8:35 a.m. Instantly killed was Claude McArthur, 35, Cleveland, Emery County.

Homer Hanson, 45, Hiawatha, Carbon county, was taken to Price City-County hospital for treatment of injures as yet undetermined last Thursday. He was reported in "fair" condition. Afternoon and night shifts at the mine were idle as officials conducted an investigation into cause of the fall from a section of roof.

Mr. McArthur, a cutting machine operator, had worked for the company for six years. Claude G. McArthur was born Dec. 2, 1914, at Lawrence, Emery county. He married Faye Bishop July 25, 1940. Surviving are his widow and two daughters and a son: Betty, 7: Sandra, 5 and Lim, 20 months, two sisters, Mrs. Agnes Jensen, Cleveland, and Mrs. Cleo Johnson, Lawrence. He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Funeral arrangements will be announced by the Mitchell Funeral home, Price.

Guy McArthur, a miner, was killed at midnight Thursday in the Independent Coal and Coke Company's mine No. 1 at Kenilworth, by falling coal, according to a report received at the state industrial commission yesterday.

Research note: Age 35 died Mar 21, 1924

Clyde McClanihan, an American, married, leaves a wife and one child, was injured December 19, 1918, Wattis Mine, by a slab of coal rolling over him, which he had shot down the night before. He was loading a car in front of his piece of coal, which measured 7 feet long, 3 feet wide and 2 feet thick, when all of a sudden it rolled over and caught him between the end of the car and the chunk of coal, injuring him so seriously that he died January 22, 1919, at the St. Mark's Hospital.

James McDermaid, about 35, was instantly killed late Thursday in the mines of the United States Fuel company at Hiawatha when a huge section of roof collapsed, burying him beneath it. McDermaid's body was extricated from beneath the roof, and is at the funeral home of J. E. Flynn at Price, awaiting funeral arrangements.

He was a married man with a family, and a brother of George McDermaid, manager of the store at Rolapp, of the Royal Fuel Company.

Research note: Died May 9, 1929 due to broken back and spinal cord injuries which occurred at the Hiawatha Blackhawk King, Panther Mine.

Wm. McDermaid, an American, 38 years old and married, leaves a wife and 8 children, was killed July 22, 1920, Hiawatha No. 1 Mine, by a fall of rock. Wm. McDermaid and his brother, Dick, were pulling back the chain pillars off second west entry. On July 12, 1920 (about 1:45 P.M.) while they were loading their ninth car of coal a slab of slate, 3 1/2 feet long, 2 1/2 feet wide and 10 inches thick, fell from the roof and struck Wm. McDermaid, killing him instantly. Just previous to the accident he had set a prop which was thrown out when the slate caved down. The reason for the prop being thrown out was because the slate had broken just inside of the cap piece on the prop when the top sandrock had started to break, which always occurs before it caves in on pillar work.

Otto McDonald was born May 29, 1897 in Buysville, Wasatch, Utah. His parents were Joseph Smith McDonald and Nancy Elizabeth Cummings. He was married to Millie Smith on November 28, 1917 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. Otto and Millie had two children born to them, one son and one daughter. Otto McDonald died in the Castle Gate mine explosion on March 8, 1924 and is buried in the Heber City Cemetery, Heber City, Wasatch, Utah.

Aaron R. McFarlane - PRICE March 7 -- Aaron Rex McFarlane, 40, longtime resident of Carbon county, died Friday at 11:30 a.m. at the Carbon county hospital following a lingering illness. His home was in Sunnydale, Carbon County, where he was a coal miner. Mr. McFarlane was born April 8, 1907, in Cleveland, Emery County, a son of Parley and Mary Jane Potter McFarlane.

Survivors include: His widow, Mrs. Elva Davis McFarlane; a daughter and three sons, Shawna, Thyrill, Delvin and Ernie McFarlane, all of Sunnydale; his stepmother, Mrs. Malinda McFarlane, Richfield; and Mrs. Bessi Knot, Colorado and four stepbrothers, William Franklin, Elmo, Emery County, Andrew Franklin, Wattis, Carbon county, Jack Franklin, Price and Ervin Franklin, Cleveland, Emery county. Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the Cleveland ward chapel, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, by William Eadon, Bishop. Burial will be in the Cleveland cemetery.

PRICE - Bernard McIntyre, 29, was killed almost instantly Tuesday evening at the Utah Fuel company mine at Sunnyside by falling coal, which crushed him while he was working as a motorman. He had been employed at the mine since August 13 and previously worked for the Castlegate Coal Company.

Mr. McIntyre was born September 30, 1914 in Rayburn, Alabama, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel McIntyre. Four months ago he married Donna Marie Gilbert of Castlegate. He is survived by his widow and his parents. Funeral arrangements are pending word from his parents.

Thomas McKee, a timberman, was killed in the Castle Gate Mine, on June 25th 1904. Spine fracture causing death six hours after the accident.

Copy of Coroner's verdict: An inquest having been held at the school in Castle Gate Precinct, ...said Jurors upon their oath do say that Thomas McKee came to his death by a fall of rock while working at his daily occupation as timber man in Castle Gate Mine on June 25th, 1904, through failure on his part to take the necessary precautions to secure a piece of roof he knew to be unsafe.

PRICE - Falling from the top of his truck cab, Charles C. McLain, 42, a coal trucker of 289 East Thirty-ninth South Street, Murray, was fatally injured Friday at 3:30 a.m. at the Lone Pine Coal company mine at Mutual, three-fourths of a mile west of Price. Sheriff S. M. Bliss said Mr. McLain suffered a broken neck. Mr. McLain was born on January 24, 1899, in Decatur, Ga. To John and Lena Hayes McLain, and moved to Salt Lake City in 1929, He was a veteran of the First World War

Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Phyllis Rees McLain, whom he married on April 12, 1930; a son, John Lee McLain and a daughter, Lena May McLain, of Salt Lake City, and two brothers and two sisters, residing in the southern states.

Yesterday morning a telegram from Pleasant Valley, Spanish Fork Canyon, to Bishop John Sharp, informed him that the sheds had taken fire at the Utah Central Coal mine and that John McLean and his son, John McLean, were yet in the mine and no hopes were entertained for saving them. This was at 6 a.m. an hour later John Fyfe, foreman of the mine, telegraphed that the mine was on fire, the timbers all burned clear through, the coal still burning though efforts were being made to smother it, and that two men had perished in the flames. The sheds in front of tunnel caught on fire from the fire in the stove in weighing room, and in a few minutes the flames had run along the sheds into the tunnel, and through the tunnel into and up the air shaft, a distance of three hundred and sixty feet from the mouth of the tunnel. Only five men were in the mine at the time, three of whom escaped, though they were nearly suffocated. The other two, John McClean and his son John, perished, and their bodies could not be recovered. It was thought that the fire had been smothered, as all the openings of the mine were completely closed with earth.

. . . weigh boss at that time and as the cars were coming rather slowly from the inside of the mine, he left the office and went out to haul some dirt from the mine. While thus employed the office took fire from a hot stove that he had left, and the fire was communicated to the timbers in the mine, and from them to the coal, as the air was drawing into the mine. Quite a number of men were at work on the inside of the mine at the time, but all escaped, except John McLain and his son."

Research notes: John Sr. was a mining engineer, graduated from the Schools of Mines at Edinburgh, Scotland. He immigrated to the US in 1881, then to Utah working at the Scofield Mine.

Wife Agnes Fleming. She died 1900 Salt Lake City. Father and son suffocated as a result of a fire between them and the portal. Bodies not recovered for 30 days. Buried in Provo. Funeral sermon preached by Carl G. Maeser, classmate in Scotland.

Sunnyside - Tons of coal and rock caved in two miles underground in a Sunnyside coal mine Wednesday at 10:08 a.m., crushing to death three miners. The accident occurred in an air course passageway of Kaiser Steel Coal Mine No. 1. The miners were buried under two feet of coal and rock. The victims were Earnest Andrezzi, 48, Sunnyside, a mine mason; Ray R. Medina, 25, Price, a mason's helper, and Danny Dragon, 56, Sunnyside, a timber man. A rescue crew went to work immediately to dig out the miners. Bodies of Mr. Andrezzi and Mr. Medina were recovered about 10:30 a.m. and the body of Mr. Dragon was found three hours later. No one else was injured. Mine officials said the three men were working in the 18-foot wide passageway which runs parallel to the main slope and carries fresh air into the mine.

Workers in other parts of the shaft said the cave-in shook the whole mine, although it was described by mine officials as a relatively small cave-in compared with others of the past. It was not immediately determined exactly what caused the cave-in. An investigation will be conducted by federal and state mine inspectors. Officials said the mine would begin operating again after a traditional 24-hour layoff following a mine accident.

The accident recalls a similar cave-in April 18, 1956, in the nearby Kaiser Mine No. 2. Three men lay trapped and buried two days and were found alive by rescue workers in one of the most thrilling dramas of Utah mining history. A fourth miner was killed in the cave-in. Wednesday's cave-in marked the sixth death this year in Sunnyside mining accidents.

PRICE, Utah Aug 5 - John Meadonich, 52, was crushed to death under sliding coal at the Sweet Coal company mine, reported Superintendent L. E. Guinn, who said a companion of Meadonich narrowly escaped injury. Guinn said Meadonich, who had been employed at the mine 11 years, had been shoveling coal yesterday near the edge of a face. As it fell it killed him instantly. Survivors include a sister, Mrs. Pete Dutkovich of Superior, Wyo.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Sept. 21. - Five men are reported to be entombed in the Rains Mine of the Carbon Fuel Company at Rains, near Castlegate, about 100 miles south of here, as the result of an explosion at 6 o'clock Sunday night. Although more than 200 men are employed in the mine, only five drill men, who were cutting out work for Monday, were on shift when the explosion occurred, according to meager reports from the mine.

The explosion is said to have occurred in the second left entry way which caved in, leaving the main way and main entry clear. Rescue crews from five camps and Spring Canyon, in which the mine is situated, are being sent to the scene. It is expected the entombed men will be reached in a few hours unless gas or other cave-ins hamper the work.

John Mellich, an Austrian, 29 years old and single, was killed April 22, 1922, in the Panther Mine. He was spragging a loaded car when he was caught between rib and the car and was instantly killed. There was not enough clearance between track and pillar.

The 13th of Mai 1900 the priest of this parish buried in the cemetery of this parish the body of Honorious Meloche, day laborer, age 36, died on the second of the month in Schofield Utah, son of Antoine Meloche, of this parish, and deceased Scholastique Cheval.

Honorius Meloche born 20 May 1863 died 1st May 1900 R.I.P.

Mark Menotti, a naturalized Italian, 28 years old and single, was killed August 15, 1919, Sunnyside No. 1 Mine, by being caught on the chain pick of the mining machine. Caused by the jack pipe slipping and over balancing him so that his left foot was caught on the machine picks, also ripped the body up to the shoulder. The left leg was entirely taken off.

J. E. Pettit, state coal mine inspector, has been investigating at the Kenilworth coal mines the death of an Italian miner name Baptiste Milano. He reports that the death of the Italian was due to his own carelessness in cutting down a lot of coal from the roof of a chamber.

State Mine Inspector J. E. Pettit has returned from a trip to the Kenilworth coal mines, where he went to investigate the death of an Italian coal miner, Baptiste Milano. He found that death was due to carelessness.

Battiste Milano, Italian, miner, aged 31 years, single, was injured in the Aberdeen No. 1 mine at Kenilworth, Utah, on the fourth right entry, room No. 5, on the 21st day of February, 1910, at 1:30 o'clock p.m. The deceased and partners, Botarri and Andrews, had fired holes in the top bench of coal. They worked under this loose coal one-half day on Saturday and on Monday morning attempted to take down the loose coal, part of which they succeeded in getting down. The driver bringing in a car they started to load same, when a mass of coal that Milano had been endeavoring to take down with a bar fell, fracturing the base of his skull, from which he died the same day.

Manda Milkovich, mother of Joe Milkovich, deceased, vs. Standard Coal Company.

Joe Milkovich was killed by a fall of coal on November 4, 1932. On March 9, 1936, the Commission rendered a decision denying applicant's claim for compensation. Petition for Re-hearing was filed by the applicant, which was denied. The case was appealed to the Supreme Court and the Court handed down its Decision on February 11, 1937, with instructions to grant a rehearing and if no further evidence was produced the Commission must grant the applicant an award.

The respective parties were afforded an opportunity to submit evidence, but no further evidence was offered. The Commission found that the letter of the applicant dated December 28, 1932 (which was on November 17, 1933 supplemented by a further application) was the application of the applicant and was seasonable and in proper form as a claim for compensation. The mother of decedent, living in Yugoslavia, was found to be partially dependent upon her son, Joe Milkovich.

Compensation at the rate of 50% of $12.50 per month for 64 months beginning November 3, 1932. The defendant was authorized to pay the entire amount of the award in a lump sum; if it so desired.

Joso, 31, died June 21, 1927 at the Holy Cross Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah due to trauma fracture and dislocation of 4th lumbar vertebra with cord pressure and paralysis because of injury. The mine accident occurred at Standardville, Carbon, Utah on June 11, 1927. He was buried in the Murray City Cemetery.

Martin Millarich of Helper was instantly killed in the Spring Canyon mine where he was employed Tuesday when he was crushed by a mine car that he had loaded. Millarich had completed the loading of the car and had apparently turned his back for a moment when the car slipped down and pinned him to the train. His neck was broken and his head nearly severed, according to physicians attending him.

Millarich was born in Sunnyside August 5, 1903, the son of Martin Millarich and Mary Oresk, now Mrs. Tony Pemonich of Helper. He is survived by his parents, two sisters and a brother, Mrs. Louis Krisman and Mrs. Joe Rebel of Helper and P J Millarich of Spring Canyon. The body was removed to the J. E. Flynn funeral home where it was announced that funeral services will be held Sunday with interment in the Price City cemetery.

Grant S. Miller, American, age 26, single, employed as helmet man, lost his life in the Black Hawk mine at Black Hawk, Utah, on March 1, 1915. Deceased, a member of the Helmet Squad and under the direction of Arthur Dennison as captain, was assisting in fighting a fire, which started in the Black Hawk mine on February 1st. The crew, of which Miller was a member, went into first east entry through the fanway to adjust a water pipe, and after the work had been completed Miller notified his captain that he was not feeling right. The crew started for the surface and when near the point where the relief crew was stationed he knocked his nose-clip off and undoubtedly inhaled sufficient of smoke and gas fumes to render him unconscious, from the effects of which he died, as it was impossible for two physicians to resuscitate him when he was brought to the surface some fifteen minutes later.

An inquest having been held at the Black Hawk mine in Mohrland precinct, Emery county, on the first and second days of March, 1915, before Leo Kenney, justice of the peace, in Mohrland precinct in said Emery county, upon the body of Grant S. Miller, there lying dead, by the jurors whose names are hereto subscribed, the said jurors upon their oaths do say that the deceased came to his death by being asphyxiated by poisonous gases in the Black Hawk mine, in Emery county, Utah through the nose piece of his rescue apparatus being accidentally displaced by himself, he being an expert helmet man and employed as such at the time of the accident, which resulted in his death.

On May 1, 1900, at about 10:30 in the morning, three Miller brothers were among the 200 men killed by an explosion in the Winter Quarters Mine near Scofield, Utah, in Carbon County. Three sons of William Miller and Margaret Jane Neibaur were killed in the mine, either from the explosion or from the "after-damp" or poisonous gas that followed.

Harrison A. Miller, born 6 February 1867, in Kamas, Summit County, Utah, married in 1886 to Elnora Margaret Wiseman, father of five children.

John L. Miller was born November 5, 1877 in Glamorganshire, Wales. He arrived in New York City, New York on April 27, 1886. He never married and was killed with two of his brothers, Morgan and William, in the Winter Quarters mine explosion on May 1st, 1900. John is buried in the Scofield cemetery.

Morgan Miller was born May 16, 1867 in Glamorganshire, Wales. He arrived in New York City, New York on April 27, 1886. He was never married and was killed with two of his brothers, Morgan and William, in the Winter Quarters mine explosion on May 1st, 1900. Morgan is buried in the Scofield cemetery.

KENILWORTH, Dec. 14 --- On his second shift after returning to work from the coal strike, Thomas B. Miller, 36, was killed late last night in a freak coal mine disaster. Miller, who had worked for the Independent Coal and Coke company mine here only a short time before the general strike, was killed when buried under a mound of loose coal. Miller's only known survivor is his mother, Mrs. Ed. Brown of Deer Lodge, Montana.

KENILWORTH - Thomas B. Miller, 36, was killed in a mine accident Friday at 10:50 p.m. when he was buried beneath a fall of coal. Mr. Miller was working as a shovel helper in Independent Coal and Coke Co. mine at the time the accident occurred. According to reports from the mine office, Mr. Miller had been employed only a short time before the strike and had worked only two days since the end of the coal strike. His only survivor listed on mine records is his mother, Mrs. Ed Brown, Deer Creek, Mont.

Research note: Death certificate states that he was divorced and her name was Irene Miller.

Ten months after Sara Salina Meniza Gay and Van Ransler R. Miller were married their first child, Perry, was born on 9 Sept 1887. On the 9th of March 1889 Albert was born. Ora was born 31 Aug 1891, Vivian was born 25 Mar 1893 and died on the 8th of Dec 1893. Delma was born 18 Oct 1894 she died on the 28th of Jan 1895. Irene was born 3 Feb 1897. Her youngest child, Abner was born on the 5th of May 1899.

Of these seven children only four of them lived to become adults. Salina and Rans lived in Kanosh less than two years when they moved to Joseph. Two years later they were living in Petersburg, Millard County, Utah where Ora was born and the next children were born in Joseph.

Rans did some farming in Joseph during the summer and during the winter he would go to Carbon County to work in the mines. May 1st 1900 found Rans working with two of his brothers at the coal mines in Scofield, Carbon County Utah. He had planned to return to Joseph within a few weeks to plant his crops.

May 1st 1900 is a date that will be long remembered. On this day there was a tremendous mine disaster and Rans, his two brothers, along with over two hundred other miners were killed. What a tragedy for Grandmother, Salina! It seemed her life was going to be one of tremendous challenges. She had been married fourteen-years, had buried two young children and was left with five children to support.

Many of the miners were buried in Scofield and others were put on trains to return their bodies to their hometowns. When the train whistle sounded to indicate it would be stopping, Grandmother fainted. My mother, Irene, was three years old at the time and her baby turned one year old the day they brought his father back to Joseph to be buried.

This was a time when people had little money and there was no insurance for the families of the many miners who lost their lives. The people of Utah and other parts of the United States donated what they were able to spare for the families of the men who had lost their lives. Grandmother got $500 and put the money on a very small farm.

William Miller, second son of David and Elizabeth Davies Miller was born in Tonyrevil, Llantrisant, Glamorganshire, Wales. At 16, William and his family emigrated from Wales and arrived aboard the ship Nevada at New York, New York April 27, 1886. He was 16 years old. All the men were miners, or involved in the mining industry. They met their father David, already living in the U.S., most likely in Pennsylvania. The family traveled together to Utah and arrived by the next year. William was killed with his older brother Morgan and youngest brother John, in the Scofield Mine Disaster. 08.06.15 from L. Randle.

In the photo are Morgan and William Miller. It is unknown which individual is Morgan and which is William.

PRICE - Alfred Mills, 38, employe of the Royal Coal company, died in the Rolapp hospital Thursday night of injuries suffered that morning, when he slipped beneath a trip of cars in the Rolapp mine. One leg was partially severed, death apparently being due to shock and loss of blood. The accident occurred when Mills fell as he attempted to board the trip, according to unofficial reports reaching here.

He was born in England June 29, 1895, a son of Thomas and Sarah Gerrard Mills. He came to the United States in 1911 and has lived in Carbon county virtually ever since. He has resided in since 1931. During the World war he served with the U. S. 91st division.

Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Maggie Greenhalgh Mills and two daughters, Lillian and Evelyne Mills, Rolapp; two brothers, John Mills, Castlegate and Thomas Mills, Australia; eight sisters: Mrs. Mary Hearst, Mrs. Elizabeth Mee, Mrs. Annie Beaumont and Mrs. Ellen Kennedy, England; Mrs. J. Redford, Spring Canyon; Mrs. Harriet Hand, Brooklyn, N. Y., Mrs. Florence Rand, Washington state, and Mrs. Elsie High, California.

Funeral services have been tentatively set for Sunday noon in the L. D. S. chapel at Castlegate under the direction of the American Legion with Bishop William B. Stapely presiding. The Deseret mortuary will be in charge of interment in Price cemetery.

PRICE - Nov. 18 - Two fatalities were charged today to unrelated accidents in Utah's Carbon County. Gerald Mills, 39, of Price, died in a Price hospital last night from injuries received in a coal mine accident at Wattis last Friday. Jim Bianco, 61, of Helper, was found dead at his home this morning. Helper City police said he apparently suffocated when the dirt roof of his house, where he lived alone, collapsed as he slept.

Sunnyside, Utah Sept. 17 - Mine officials reported today the death of Hollis Charles Mills, 30, killed Monday when crushed beneath the wheels of a loaded coal car at the Kaiser company mine. Officials said Mills, rope rider on a trip from the mine, apparently fell from the car.

PRICE, Oct. 1 - Fred Minton, 34, employed in the McLean mine at Mutual, was instantly killed yesterday when he was crushed between a coal car and a mine prop. The body will be taken to Jenneylind, Ark., Minton's birthplace for burial.

MUTUAL, Oct. 1 - Fred Minton, 34, was crushed to death between a mine prop and a car loaded with coal at the McLean mine here Thursday while fellow workmen helplessly looked on. Minton was employed as a rope rider in this mine town 15 miles west of Price.

PRICE, Oct. 1 - Fred Minton, 34, employed in the McLean mine at Mutual was instantly killed Thursday when he was crushed between a coal car and a mine prop. The body will be taken to Jennylind, Ark., Minto's birthplace, for burial.

The body of Fred Minton, 27 years old, will arrive in Fort Smith Thursday afternoon at 5 o'clock from Price, Utah where Mr. Minton was killed in a mine accident last Thursday, and will be taken to the Fentress Mortuary, pending completion of funeral arrangements. The funeral service probably will be held Friday, with burial in Old Jenny Lind cemetery.

Mr. Minton was the son of Tom Minton, and the late Nannie Long Minton of Jenny Lind, where he was born and reared. Survivors include his wife; three daughters, Billie Doris, Jean Ellen, and Tommie Earl; his father, six brothers, Will of Jenny Lind, Charles, Edward and Richard, of Herrin, Ill., Pemberton of Mexico, and John of St. Louise; and three sisters, Mrs. Beulah Johnson of Los Angeles, Mrs. Virginia Rhines of Herrin, Ill., and Mrs. Rosy Borden of Greenwood.

James Miredos, Greek, employed as timber and rock man, age 40, single, was killed in room No. 35, second left entry, Hiawatha No. 1 Mine, August 19, 1914.

On the above date the mine foreman of No. 1 mine in making his rounds of inspection, found a miner working under some loose roof rock in room 35, second left entry. The foreman sent the miner out of the mine, advising him that he would have a company man take down the loose rock and timber the room, and for the miner not to return until informed by the foreman that his place was safe to work in. At noon the same day the foreman told Miredas, who was employed as a company man, to go to room 35 on the second left and take down loose rock and timber up the place safely. Room 35 had just been turned off the entry, the face of same being some twenty feet from the entry rib, the neck of room 11 feet wide. A roll had occurred in the roof on this entry for some 200 feet. The roof rock was fractured and a number of pot hole rocks and false roof was noted. It was to remove some false roof rock and pot hole rock that Miredas was sent by the foreman to room 35. At 2:00 p.m. the safety foreman visited Miredas and saw that the work was being done satisfactorily. At 5:00 p.m. Mireda's check was on the check board, and a search was made for him by the safety foreman. He found Miredas under a large pot hole rock, with his head forced down between his legs. From the position found, it would indicated that deceased was sitting on a pile of rock near the face of room resting, when this pot hole rock dropped out on him, fracturing his spine and shutting off his breathing by compression of chest and wind pipe.

George John Mitchell was born January 16, 1893 in Selianitika, Achaia, Greece. His parents are John George and Jesse Alaban Mitchell. He arrived on Ellis Island in New York on April 2, 1910. He was married to Lucille Lyon in Price, Carbon, Utah on November 6, 1918 and they had three daughters and one son born to them. Their son George Mitchell was born June 6, 1924 in Bountiful, Davis, Utah three months after the death of his father in the Castle Gate Mine explosion. George John Mitchell is buried in the Price City Cemetery.

Frank Mivec, an Austrian, 27 years of age, single, was killed December 17, 1908, at the Winter Quarters mine. Deceased was working with Martin Shrinar, taking out pillars on the morning of the accident. They found that a large quantity of top coal had fallen on the entry during the night. This coal they loaded up, and pulled more down that they thought was unsafe. While loading the coal there was a bounce in the entry pillar that caused a piece of coal that had a very smooth facing running through it in two places, to fall upon Mivec. This was not their working place, but they undertook to load it, because it was easy. It is against the rule of the mine for them to load coal that has fallen in the entry without being instructed to do so by the mine foreman.

Inquest was held and verdict rendered: Frank Mivec came to his death by a fall of coal in No. 1 mine, at Winter Quarters, entirely due to carelessness on his own part in not making a thorough inspection of the place, and through disobedience to his employer, and in not reporting same to the officials. We further state that no blame can be attached to any other source, and further, we exonerate the Utah Fuel Company from any blame whatever.

Kenilworth, Carbon County - Grief stricken parents and the fiancé of Donald Moffitt, 19, who was to be married Christmas Eve, Monday were making funeral arrangements for the young coal miner, killed Saturday afternoon in an accident in the Kenilworth mine of the Independent Coal and Coke Company.

According to mine officials, Mr. Moffitt was working alone when the accident occurred and apparently fell from the motor he was operating. The motor and three loaded cars passed over his body. George Jackson, mine superintendent, said details of the accident were lacking because there were no witnesses. An investigation was being continued Monday.

Mr. Moffitt and Miss Jimmie Martin had completed plans for the marriage Christmas eve and wedding invitations had been issued. Funeral arrangements were being made with the Thomas funeral home in Price. Burial is to be in Orangeville cemetery.

His parents, Frank and Clara Johnson Moffitt, were waiting to board a bus for California to visit another son when they received word of the accident. He was born May 20, 1923, in Orangeville and attended school there and at the Central high school in Castle Dale. He had been employed by the mine since October.

Besides his parents, he is survived by two brothers, Lincoln Moffitt, Los Angeles, and Hugh Moffitt, Kenilworth, and a sister, Mrs. Carol Johnston, Stockton, Cal.

Wells W. Moffitt Jr. 28, material clerk for the Independent Coal and Coke company at Kenilworth was accidentally killed Monday morning while dropping cars below the company's tipple. Moffitt was in the act of dropping two cars of coal each containing fifty tons, when he was suddenly caught between them and another car coming from the opposite direction. He suffered internal injuries from which he died an hour later at the Kenilworth hospital.

He was born in Emery county and received his early education there. He has been employed by the Independent Coal and coke company for nine years, six of which he has been engaged as material clerk. Surviving him are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Moffitt of Orangeville, Emery county, his widow, Elizabeth Moffitt; two children, Jacqueline, 6 and Renee, 4 and three sisters, Mrs. Lester Worley, Standardville; Etta Moffitt, Kenilworth and Mrs. Dewey Lucas of Grand Junction.

Moffitt was a leader in civic affairs of Kenilworth. After graduating from the Central High School of Castle Dale, he attended the Utah Agricultural college and was a member of the glee club which participated in the national contest at Atlantic City.

Funeral services will be held in the Price tabernacle Thursday afternoon at 3:00 p.m. under the direction of James McPhie of Kenilworth. Interment will be made in the Price cemetery under direction of the Deseret Mortuary. The body may be viewed at the Deseret Mortuary until 1:00 p.m. Thursday and one half hour at the Tabernacle prior to the services.

Crushed beneath a fall of coal from an overhanging stope the life of Arthur Monson, 27 year old Kenilworth miner was snuffed out shortly after 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Monson had gone to work with the 3 o'clock shift and was clearing away some of the loose coal, when the fall occurred. The fatal accident was in the No. 2 mine of the Independent Coal company property.

Martin, Carbon County -- Funeral arrangements for nine men killed in the mine blast here were completed Tuesday. The blast occurred Monday at Carbon Fuel Co.'s No. 2 mine west of here.

Benino Montoya, 40, Helper, was born June 24, 1923, at Monevo, N. M. to Luciano and Aurlia Martinez Montoya. He married Bernice Crespin Nov. 27, 1952 at Price. He was a member of the Catholic Church and a member of the Helper Mexican Lodge, World War II veterans. Survivors include his widow, two sons and daughters, Benny Ray, Lou Anthony, Rebecca Ann, and Patricia Marie, all of Helper; two sisters, Mrs. Maria Montoya, Price, Mrs. Lugy Trujillo, Helper.

Requiem Mass will be celebrated Friday at 10:30 a.m. at Helper St. Anthony Catholic Church (in joint services with those for Mr. Valdez). Holy Rosary will be recited Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the Fausett-Etzel Mortuary, Price. Graveside services will be conducted at the Mountain View Cemetery by the Helper American Legion Post No. 21.

Harris Hamilton Moore, 23, of Consumers' Mutual was instantly killed at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon when struck by a runaway tram car in the Consumers' mine at that place. General crushing injuries about the body were the immediate cause of death.

The deceased was born at Penrose, Colo., June 5, 1905, the son of Harry F. and Emelina Gillian Moore of that place. He had been in the employ of the Mutual coal but a short time at his death, having been employed as a loader at Consumers Mutual.

He is survived by his parents and a brother, William S. Moore of Mutual. Funeral arrangements have not been announced as we go to press, awaiting receipt of word from his mother, who was visiting relatives in Penrose, Colo., and his father who was at Fort Duchesne on business. The body is in the Flynn mortuary at Price, where it will remain pending definite funeral arrangements.

Funeral services for Harris H. Moore, of Consumers Mutual mine accident victim of Monday afternoon, were held in the Flynn funeral home Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock, with Reverend H. M. Merkel officiating. Mr. C. H. Stevensen Jr. directed the musical numbers given. Interment was in the Price City cemetery.

James Moore, an American, leaves a wife and one child, who reside at Heiner, Utah. He was fatally injured August 11, 1919, Panther Mine. He was holding the jack pipe when it slipped, on account of the hole in the roof to hold pipe was only 1/2 inch. He lost his balance and put his foot on the cutter bar and the picks caught the bottom of his loose overalls. He was dragged into the machine and had his left leg and arm crushed so bad that Dr. McDermaid had to amputate them.

PRICE - Feb. 24 - Two mine workers were killed in accidents in Carbon county mines Friday and Saturday. Nick Needer, 65, Springfield, Ill. Was fatally injured Friday when a train of loaded mine cars broke loose from the hoisting cable, raced down a steep incline and crushed him. Both his legs were cut off. Emerson Max Morgan, 32, Hiawatha, Utah, was killed Saturday in a fall of top coal.

Kenu Morishige, for herself as widow, and for and on behalf of Yayeko Morishige, Chisayo Morishige, and Iwao Morishige, minor children of Shoichi Morishige, deceased, vs. Utah Fuel Company.

On the 30th day of July, 1924, Schoichi Morishige, while regularly employed by the Utah Fuel company of Castle Gate, Utah, as a miner, was killed by a fall of rock. Deceased left surviving him, Kenu Morishige, his wife, and three minor children, all of whom were living with the decedent at the time of the injury and were wholly dependent upon him for their maintenance and support.

Ordered, that compensation be paid to Kenu Morishige for and on behalf of herself and the three children of decedent, in the sum of $13.41 per week for a period of 312 weeks beginning July 30, 1924, all accrued payments to date to be paid in a lump sum forthwith.

Three men were killed and four others narrowly escaped death at 10:10 o'clock Monday night when a missed shot in the Blue Blaze coal mine at Consumers exploded. The dead: "Edwin R. 'Ted' Wycherly, 29, fire boss; Nick Devicak, 34, mucker, and Nick Moros, 40, driller.

Those who were working in the tunnel, but who escaped were Dave Parmley, foreman; J. Clinton Gibson, hoist man; E. E. Morgan, mucker. Gibson who was immediately back of Wycherly in the tunnel suffered painful bruises and lacerations about the left side of his body, arms and legs, but his condition was reported as being satisfactory at the emergency hospital in Consumers were he was taken immediately after the explosion.

Salazar also sugared cuts and lacerations, but was not seriously hurt. The seven men were working in the rock tunnel about two hundred sixty feet from the entrance and comprised the night shift which went on at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

Several stories are told about the accident. The one generally credited is as follows:

The shot which exploded was left there by the previous shift Sunday night and the new shift was warned of its existence Moros knew of the missed shot and, following state regulations, placed a second shot a foot away and in the same direction, in order to shoot it out. Evidently the dynamite failed to blast out the missed shot, and when workers were drilling a plug in the bottom of a rig Monday, they hit into it.

Mine officials said that the possibility of such a thing happening was remote and failure of the blast to remove the old shot could be laid to carelessness on Moros' part in drilling from the outside of the rib instead of from the inside.

J.B. Taylor, state coal mine inspector, conducted an investigation of the tragedy and issued a report which is essentially the same as that of J. A. Roaf, superintendent of the Consumers mine.

"The Blue Blaze Coal Company was driving a rock tunnel for the purpose of prospecting No. 1 seam," said Taylor. "Nick Moros, the driller, and his partner, Nick Devicak were drilling a short hole in the bottom of the floor to brush for track when they accidently drilled into the misfired shot which exploded the powder that was in the hole, Killing Moros, Devicak and Wycherly"

Rumor persists, however, that the hole drilled into was the second of two missed holes and Moros drilling into it while Gibson and Wycherly were removing the fuse and the priming from the first hole of which they had been warned. Gibson, who was in back of the three men killed, was greasing the priming, preparatory to shooting the hole, and the bodies of the three men in front of him blanketed the explosion sufficiently to save his life. The blast caused all the lights in the tunnel to go out.

Wycherly was born in Winter Quarters. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. William McFarland, his widow, Mildred Ward Wycherly, two children, Nadean 4, and Shirley, 2; two brothers, Jack and Elmo, and one sister, Mrs. Leona Lamph. Interment will be in Cleveland.

Devicak was born in Yugoslavia. He came to Carbon County from Kemmerer, where his widow and 1 son reside.

Moros was born in Serbia of Slav parents. He is survived by his widow, two children and seven step-children who reside in Coal City. Bodies of Moros and Devicak are at the Flynn Funeral Home. Funeral arrangements have not yet been made.

Officers of the Blue Blaze Coal Company left Salt Lake City for Price early Tuesday morning following reports of the explosion. No report has been received from them yet. - Price Sun

"Davy" Morrison, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Morrison of Castle Gate, was instantly killed Monday morning when a bunch of cars on the tram ran away striking his car crushing him. He was a motorman on the tramway. One of the run-aways went over the others and jumped off the track alighting within 15 feet of a kitchen doorway below. Davy was raised in this county, having lived at Sunnyside when a boy. He was a splendid young fellow, a good worker and had the esteem of both fellow workmen and company officials. He was married about a year and a half ago to a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Ingle of Castle Gate and the widow with a baby survive him. Funeral services were held at Castle Gate and high tribute was paid to the unfortunate young man.

It was a typically cool, early morning, winter day on Saturday, March 8, 1924 in Castle Gate, Utah. Minutes before 8:00 a.m. within the tiny 700 square foot, coal camp house, located on the outskirts of the Utah Fuel Company's, Castle Gate Mine No. 2, 11-year-old Jamima "Ina" Lindsay abruptly awoke from her sleep in a panic Ina ran into the arms of her Aunt Emily, "something's happened to grandpa" cried Ina! Emily consoled Ina telling her all was well and she was just dreaming and that her grandfather William Morrison was at the mine working along with Ina's two young uncles, 18-year-old Daniel and 16-year-old James...

...Just after 8:00 a.m. the small coal camp home was rocked by the blast of another coal mine explosion. The first explosion occurred in a chamber approximately 7,000 feet from the Castle Gate Mine entrance and minutes after Ina awoke from her dream. William, Ina's grandfather and young uncles, 19-year-old Daniel and 16-year-old James were at work, deep within the mine when disaster struck. Of the 172 fatalities William was the 68th body that was found, his body was located about half way into the mine working in a side vane. Daniel and James were the 98th and 100th bodies found as they were located in the deepest part of the mine. James would be listed as the youngest miner killed in the blast...

Harry Mosenkio, a Russian, 31 years old and single, was fatally injured April 23, 1921, in the Winter Quarters Mine No. 5 room, 7 off 12 raise by being struck on the back by a piece of cap rock 3 feet long, 2 feet 5 inches thick, which fell when the prop broke that he was braced against while pushing a tie over with his foot. His back was broken by the compact and he died April 29, 1921, at the St. Marks Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah.

That on the 23rd day of April, 1921, Harry Moskeno, of Winter Quarters, Utah, was accidentally injured while lifting a car on track. He attempted to push car over with his back to prop and feet on the car; when he pushed, the prop came out and released a piece of rock from the roof, which fell and struck him, causing him to sustain a fractured spine and instant death.

Research note: first report is he died April 29th at St. Mark's hospital, 2nd report is that he received instant death. Death certificate states he passed away April 29, 1921

ROYAL, June 3 - Falling coal crushed Louis Moundakis, 58, at the mine of the Royal Coal company Saturday. Moundakis was working as a pillar man at the mine. A fellow workman said approximately 1500 pounds of coal fell from the roof, burying Moundakis.

On August 3rd, 1925, while employed by the Spring Canyon Coal Company, at Storrs, Utah, Francis Mower, was struck on the back by a large rock, causing fracture of the first lumbar vertebrae, injury to spinal cord and paralysis of the lower limbs. Mr. Mower remained in the hospital until October 5, 1926, when he was permitted to enter a private home, the employer allowing him $40 per month for services in lieu of hospital charges, this in addition to the weekly compensation of $16.00 per week. These payments were continued until November 1st, 1927, when the employer refused to further continue the monthly payment of $40.00 on the ground that Mr. Mower was no longer a hospital case.

On November 2nd, 1927, Mr. Mower asked for a Hearing before the Commission. From the evidence submitted, the Commission found that while Mr. Mower was totally disabled and unable to perform any sort of labor and that his condition would remain so permanently, that he was able to get from his bed to the wheel chair unaided and also get about a little on crutches.

The commission rules, that the payment of $40.00 per month was a mere gratuity on the part of the employer and that the payment might be discontinued at the pleasure of the employer. It was so ordered.

SUNNYDALE, Aug. 21 - Lavor Paul Mower, 19, Sunnydale, died Saturday at a Dragerton hospital as the result of injuries received in Geneva mine at Horse canyon Aug. 10. Mr. Mower's back was broken in two places when a bounce of coal struck him as he was operating a shuttle car in the mine. He was born at Salt Lake City April 21, 1930, to Lavor K. and Elmina Christensen Mower. He was graduated from Carbon county high school in 1948.

Mr. Mower is survived by his parents of Sunnydale; the following brothers and sisters, all of Sunnydale; Mrs. Edith Berry, Miss Geniel Mower, Miss Goldie Mower, Melvin Mower and Danny Mower, and his grandmother, Mrs. Roda M. Briggs, Salt Lake City.

A funeral service will be held at Sunnyside Hall Tuesday at 2 p.m. with James Peacock, bishop of Sunnyside ward, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, officiating. Friends may call at the family home at 221 Circle Way from 11 a.m. until time of services. Another funeral service will be held at the Fairview ward chapel Wednesday at 1 p.m. with Silven Peterson, bishop, officiating. Burial will be in Fairview cemetery with Mitchell funeral home, Price, in charge.

Sunnydale - Aug. 22 - Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday and Wednesday at Sunnyside and at Fairview, Sanpete County, for Lavor Paul Mower, 19, victim of an accident at the Sunnyside mine at Kaiser Co. Mr. Mower suffered a broken back Aug. 10 when coal fell on him as he was operating a shuttle car in the Kaiser Co. mine. He died Saturday in a Dragerton hospital.

Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday at 2 p.m. in Sunnyside hall by James Peacock, bishop of Sunnyside ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Friends may call at the family home from 11 a.m. until the time of services. Additional services will be conducted at Fairview North L D S ward chapel, Fairview Wednesday at 1 p.m. by Silven V. Petersen, bishop, Burial will be in Fairview cemetery, directed by Mitchell funeral home, Price.

The Salt Lake Tribune Monday erroneously reported that the accident which caused Mr. Mower's death occurred on the Geneva Steel Co. mine at Horse canyon, Carbon county, rather than in the Kaiser Co. mine at Sunnyside.

William Moxon, English, 24 years of age, married, wife and one child, was killed at the Winter Quarters mine March 9, 1909. Motor pulling thirty-two loaded cars jumped track, ran ten feet off of the track, where it knocked out five sets of timbers that were supporting some bad roof over the roadway, and the timbers and rock fell on William Moxon, motorman, who was evidently getting off the motor, as his body was found on top of the motor with his head and arms hanging over right side of it. There was plenty of room on either side of the track. Do not see why he did not jump off.

Inquest was held and the following verdict rendered: An inquest having been held at Winter Quarters in Winter Quarters Precinct, Carbon County on the 30th day of March, 1909, before James Adams, justice of the peace in Winter Quarters Precinct, of said county, upon the body of said William Moxon, there lying dead, by the jurors whose names are hereto subscribed. The said jurors upon their oath do say, the said William Moxon came to his death accidentally, by timber and rock falling on him in the mine at Winter Quarters, Carbon County, Utah.

I was born in Winter Quarters, Carbon County, Utah. It isn't a town now. I am the only child of William Sykes Moxon and Sarah Ellen Quilter. My father came to America about 1906, got a job in the coal mines in Winter Quarters and my mother and her brother Isaac came about three months later. I was four months old when my dad was killed in the coal mine. A runaway coal car came down the track and killed him. I asked my mother about him and she would say "I don't know too much about him we were only married 15 months when he was killed."

May 31, 1902 - On this date Ieri Muanla, a miner, was killed in Clear Creek Mine. At the time of the accident Muanla was at work in his room when a piece of rock fell upon him, striking him on the head, causing instant death.

The body and face of Mr. Muir was not crushed in any way. The face of one of his sons, and of his son-in-law, Mr. Bjornson, showed a few bruises, while the other son was considerably bruised, and his casket was not opened. They were all no doubtedly killed by the concussion of the explosion, or by being hurled against the walls of the mine.

Richfield, Utah, May 3 - a large crowd of people with heavy hearts went to the depot this evening to meet the southbound train in hopes that the reports from Scofield had been exaggerated. They, however, came back with hanging heads. Four bodies were unloaded at Richfield, John Muir, his two sons, and son-in-law. This leaves only the wife of John Muir and two married daughters remaining in the family. Sevier County is generally in mourning. The train had on board one corpse for Elsinore and one for Joseph.

PRICE, Jan. 25 - Funeral services were pending Sunday for Theodore Norman Mullen, 46 year old Geneva Steel Co. coal mine motorman who was killed instantly Saturday about 9:30 a.m. while at work at the Geneva mine in Horse Canyon.

Mr. Mullen, an employe of the Geneva company for the past three and one-half years, was born Jan. 1, 1902, in Middleton, Ill., a son of Edward and Josephine Culienine Mullen.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Birdie Mullen; his father, Jericho Springs, Mo.; eight sons and three daughters. Theodore Mullen, with the U. S. army in Korea; James and Miss Patricia Mullen, both of Chicago; William, Patrick Michael, Leo, John, Jerry, Virginia and Doris Delmango, all of Dragerton, and two brothers, Richard Mullen, Chicago, and Vincent Mullen, Richfield, Mo.

HORSE CANYON, Jan. 24 - The Geneva Steel Company reported today that Theodore Mullen, 46, Dragerton, Utah, had been killed in a mine accident here. Mullen was a motorman on one of the electric motors hauling loaded coal cars in the mine. He was killed when the motor tipped over and crushed him against the wall of the mine. Mullen was married and the father of eight children.

Roy Monroe, an American, 29 years old and married, leaves a wife and four minor children. He was killed November 19, 1918, Hiawatha Mine Tramway, by coming in contact with signal wires carrying 230 volts. He met his brother, who was coming down the tramway, while he was going up, and in going to speak to him he turned around, stepped on the rail and at the same time took hold of the signal wires and before his brother could liberate him he was dead.

Clarence H. Murch, American, age 28, married, employed as acting foreman at No. 1 mine, Castle Gate, Utah, came to his death from the results of a fractured skull, August 5, 1914.

Mr. Murch, who had been employed as brattice man, but holding a mine foreman's certificate, was placed in charge of No. 1 mine, Castle Gate, as acting foreman, during the vacation of John Jones, the regular foreman. On the evening of the 5th, when nearing quitting time, Mr. Murch was standing on the west side parting of the tunnel. As a trip of nine loaded cars was pulled from that side and the trip started down the tunnel, Murch placed his dinner bucket on one of the loaded cars, then stepped onto the hoisting rope, behind the rope rider, for the purpose of riding out of the tunnel, it is presumed, to the parting on the "A" seam. As the trip of cars started down the incline and at a point just below the west entry, a pin attaching the brake to the hoisting engine pulled out, rendering the brake useless, thus allowing the trip to run down the incline uncontrolled. When the runaway trip struck the curve in the track at foot of incline, the front cars left the rails, throwing Murch either against the roof, rib, or car with sufficient violence to fracture his skull, killing him instantly.

Three miners injured last Friday in a rock slide which killed two co-workers at the Hiawatha mine were reported in "improved" condition at the Price City-County Hospital. Most critically injured was Merril Berenson, 41, of Price, who had two vertebrae removed from his back in an operation performed over the week end. He was listed "improved from critical."

The other two, Rex Filmore, 36, Cleveland, Emery county, and Herbert Hardgraves, 28, Hiawatha, both were listed in "fairly good" condition at the same hospital.

Peter Murning, 39, Hiawatha, and Ruel Johansen, 28, Cleveland, Emery County, both were killed instantly when they were caught beneath an avalanche of huge slabs of rock which fell from the roof of the mine.

Mrs. James Murphy, who had been married two and a half years, was almost hysterical as the bodies were being carried in and would not be consoled at her fate.

"Was that Jim that they just brought in?" she screamed as she ran from the chapel to the street. "My God, what shall I do, what shall I do? I can't live without him. If he is dead, I want to die, too. Oh, I wanted him so bad. I loved him, oh, I loved him so much. What if he is so mangled up that I won't be able to recognize him? Yes, I know I ought to brace up. Jim always told me to be brave and not to give in, but I can't stand this suspense, I can't stand it."

MT. PLEASANT - Nevel I. Murray, 32, Emery county surveyor and a graduate of Wasatch Academy in 1921, died Saturday from injuries in an accident, according to advices received here by friends, Thursday. No details are known except that Mr. Murray's leg was so badly crushed that amputation was contemplated, but he died before that was accomplished.

Mr. Murray was born in West Virginia in 1901, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Murray, Sr., who now are residents of Hiawatha. After his graduation from Wasatch Academy, he studied civil engineering at the University of Utah and later pursued his studies in California. He was for some years employed by the Southern California Edison company as a civil engineer.

At the time of his death he was county surveyor of Emery county. During his attendance at Wasatch Academy he was prominent in debating the athletics. He is survived by his parents; a brother, Walter Murray, Jr. of Huntington, and his widow, Mrs. Helen Nelson Murray, Manti. Funeral services and burial were conducted at Hiawatha last Tuesday.

Research notes: Died September 23, 1933 as a result of an accident at the Hiawatha Blackhawk, King, Panther Mines. Cause of death was lacerations of leg, traumatic shock.