Peculiar Death of Young Miner-Laid Down For Final Sleep on Large Belt Attached to Crusher, Leo Carey of Shullsburg, a young man of about 23 years of age, was instantly killed, at the Copeland Mine of that city, Wednesday afternoon.
He had worked the forenoon shift and after eating his dinner, lay down on the inside of the immense belt that drives the compressor. His head was toward the pulley and the motorman started the machinery, not knowing he was there.
The unfortunate man was probably asleep and was drawn between the pulley and belt so quickly that he was killed instantly, being crushed beyond recognition. [Source: Monroe Journal, Jan 2, 1918, @ Monroe, WI Library.]
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Leo was the son of James & {Alice?] Carey, born July of 1898 in Wisconsin and grandson of Marguerette Carey, widow of Patrick Carey, b Feb of 1825 Ireland and was a mother of 9 children but only 4 now living, and had immigrated from Ireland in 1866 and who no doubt helped to care for Leo and his siblings, since his Wis. born mother had passed, according to the 1900 Shullsburg Census Shullsburg, His six siblings were: Patrick (b 1875),John (b , Mamie/Mary (b 1877, Thomas (b 1883), Katie (b 1893, and baby sister, Josephine/Josie (b 1896). His father being a widower and was born in March of 1850, Ireland
He had worked the forenoon shift and after eating his dinner, lay down on the inside of the immense belt that drives the compressor. His head was toward the pulley and the motorman started the machinery, not knowing he was there.
The unfortunate man was probably asleep and was drawn between the pulley and belt so quickly that he was killed instantly, being crushed beyond recognition. [Source: Monroe Journal, Jan 2, 1918, @ Monroe, WI Library.]
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Leo was the son of James & {Alice?] Carey, born July of 1898 in Wisconsin and grandson of Marguerette Carey, widow of Patrick Carey, b Feb of 1825 Ireland and was a mother of 9 children but only 4 now living, and had immigrated from Ireland in 1866 and who no doubt helped to care for Leo and his siblings, since his Wis. born mother had passed, according to the 1900 Shullsburg Census Shullsburg, His six siblings were: Patrick (b 1875),John (b , Mamie/Mary (b 1877, Thomas (b 1883), Katie (b 1893, and baby sister, Josephine/Josie (b 1896). His father being a widower and was born in March of 1850, Ireland
Peculiar Death of Young Miner-Laid Down For Final Sleep on Large Belt Attached to Crusher, Leo Carey of Shullsburg, a young man of about 23 years of age, was instantly killed, at the Copeland Mine of that city, Wednesday afternoon.
He had worked the forenoon shift and after eating his dinner, lay down on the inside of the immense belt that drives the compressor. His head was toward the pulley and the motorman started the machinery, not knowing he was there.
The unfortunate man was probably asleep and was drawn between the pulley and belt so quickly that he was killed instantly, being crushed beyond recognition. [Source: Monroe Journal, Jan 2, 1918, @ Monroe, WI Library.]
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Leo was the son of James & {Alice?] Carey, born July of 1898 in Wisconsin and grandson of Marguerette Carey, widow of Patrick Carey, b Feb of 1825 Ireland and was a mother of 9 children but only 4 now living, and had immigrated from Ireland in 1866 and who no doubt helped to care for Leo and his siblings, since his Wis. born mother had passed, according to the 1900 Shullsburg Census Shullsburg, His six siblings were: Patrick (b 1875),John (b , Mamie/Mary (b 1877, Thomas (b 1883), Katie (b 1893, and baby sister, Josephine/Josie (b 1896). His father being a widower and was born in March of 1850, Ireland
He had worked the forenoon shift and after eating his dinner, lay down on the inside of the immense belt that drives the compressor. His head was toward the pulley and the motorman started the machinery, not knowing he was there.
The unfortunate man was probably asleep and was drawn between the pulley and belt so quickly that he was killed instantly, being crushed beyond recognition. [Source: Monroe Journal, Jan 2, 1918, @ Monroe, WI Library.]
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Leo was the son of James & {Alice?] Carey, born July of 1898 in Wisconsin and grandson of Marguerette Carey, widow of Patrick Carey, b Feb of 1825 Ireland and was a mother of 9 children but only 4 now living, and had immigrated from Ireland in 1866 and who no doubt helped to care for Leo and his siblings, since his Wis. born mother had passed, according to the 1900 Shullsburg Census Shullsburg, His six siblings were: Patrick (b 1875),John (b , Mamie/Mary (b 1877, Thomas (b 1883), Katie (b 1893, and baby sister, Josephine/Josie (b 1896). His father being a widower and was born in March of 1850, Ireland
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