Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-20
DOWN TO DEATH.
a Fatal Accident at the Milan
Paper Mills
BY THE GIVING WAY OF A FLOOR,

samuel Schooley Carried Down in the
Crash ana Loses His Life-precipitaten
into an Unused stun Chest Filled with
Water Miraculous Escape of Three
Other Men-The Inquest-Verdict of the
Henry Drowning
A distressing accident by which
one man lost his life and three 9th
ers tremendously escaped the same
fate occurred at the Milan mills of
the Columbia Straw Paper company
at Sears about 4:2) o'clock Yesterday
afternoon.
The company has been engaged for
some time past in putting in some
new machinery. Yesterday after
noon Il number of the employees of
the mills were engaged on the second
floor OF the building moving some
large rolls known rs ..bcatcr rolls
that weigh from l.S)D to 1000
pounds. In rolling one Of the heavy
pieces OF some skids upon which it
had been placed. section of the
flooring -about - by 16 feet-gave
way. letting one of the heavy rolls
down into . large cistern-like OPEN
ing below that i known as ..stuff
chest Four men, namely. Samuel
Schoolcy. Fred Wright, Gelt Cope
man and William Zener. were carried
down with the falling floor and the
first named was caught and so badly
| crushed that he died about 20 min
utes after the accident occurred.
| The pit into which the men were pre-
| cipitatod contained about seven feet
OF water. which in measure ac-
counts for the escape of the other
| three. The unfortunate man was
taken from the hole and medical at
tendance summoned. DR.. Huvett.
! of Milan responded. but he died be-
fore the doctors arrival, Drs. Plum
| mer and MYERS of this city also re-
spending to calls. The accident
seemed to have been the result of the
peculiar manner in which the heavy
rolls happened to he placed on the
flooring, rs the latter is said to have
been in ordinary good condition.
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| Coroner Halves was Immediately no
''nS" XII" He went "u' I'm" EN- pan
nelled a jury composed of :. W.
Searle. foreman. Frank Attwater
| William Schumacher, ID. l.. Rodman
John Horton and John Gordon. The
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