MINER MEETS DEATH AT PRIVATEER MINE (Zeballos Miner Newspaper July 15, 1939.
Gripped in an ore shoot when the muck commenced to move, Abel Rudolph Engstrom, 35, employed at the Privateer Mine, was fatally injured at 3:00am on Thursday. He died two hours after being extricated. Dr. J.K. Kelly was in attendance. The remains will be shipped to New Westminster. He leaves a wife and three children 11, 8 and 5. Only a few weeks ago, the deceased, after working some months at the Maquinna property, built a home near the end of the Ford bridge and sent for his family. He was formerly employed at Copper Mountain, near Princeton. After viewing the body Friday night Coroner R. Thistle adjourned the inquest to await the arrival of mine inspector Strang.
Gripped in an ore shoot when the muck commenced to move, Abel Rudolph Engstrom, 35, employed at the Privateer Mine, was fatally injured at 3:00am on Thursday. He died two hours after being extricated. Dr. J.K. Kelly was in attendance. The remains will be shipped to New Westminster. He leaves a wife and three children 11, 8 and 5. Only a few weeks ago, the deceased, after working some months at the Maquinna property, built a home near the end of the Ford bridge and sent for his family. He was formerly employed at Copper Mountain, near Princeton. After viewing the body Friday night Coroner R. Thistle adjourned the inquest to await the arrival of mine inspector Strang.
MINER MEETS DEATH AT PRIVATEER MINE (Zeballos Miner Newspaper July 15, 1939.
Gripped in an ore shoot when the muck commenced to move, Abel Rudolph Engstrom, 35, employed at the Privateer Mine, was fatally injured at 3:00am on Thursday. He died two hours after being extricated. Dr. J.K. Kelly was in attendance. The remains will be shipped to New Westminster. He leaves a wife and three children 11, 8 and 5. Only a few weeks ago, the deceased, after working some months at the Maquinna property, built a home near the end of the Ford bridge and sent for his family. He was formerly employed at Copper Mountain, near Princeton. After viewing the body Friday night Coroner R. Thistle adjourned the inquest to await the arrival of mine inspector Strang.
Gripped in an ore shoot when the muck commenced to move, Abel Rudolph Engstrom, 35, employed at the Privateer Mine, was fatally injured at 3:00am on Thursday. He died two hours after being extricated. Dr. J.K. Kelly was in attendance. The remains will be shipped to New Westminster. He leaves a wife and three children 11, 8 and 5. Only a few weeks ago, the deceased, after working some months at the Maquinna property, built a home near the end of the Ford bridge and sent for his family. He was formerly employed at Copper Mountain, near Princeton. After viewing the body Friday night Coroner R. Thistle adjourned the inquest to await the arrival of mine inspector Strang.
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