The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-02
Mat Baghor Killed at
the Tamarack Yes
terday.
Falling Rock Strikes Him.
The Deceased Considered the Place
safe-Coroner Holds an Inquest
The Verdict

Mat Baghor, an Austrian tlmDermau
was killed yesterday afternoon at tn
Tamarack mine by the accidental fallinl
OF piece OF vein rock while at work in
stope south OF No. shaft, at the 20tl
leyel. The ground from which the rocl
that killed him fell is of a treacherous ma
ture and although the men could tell by
the sound that il was not solid, no cracl
could be seen and the men had been IL
the habit of working under just suct
places where it was considered reasona
ply safe The deceased himself said il
would hold six or seyen days, but he war
unfortunately mistaken. de was killed in
stantly. An inquest was held at the cap
tain's Office. when. the following testi-
mony was taken:
Mat Schneider the boss OF the timber
men was the first witness and testified
as. follows:
1--WE were working at the Goth level,
south oil No. 2 shaft, putting up timber
20 keep the hanging. am the timber
boss. We took up our tools and went to
the place TO put up the timber. | took
my staff and put light upon il to see
how the ground was looking. Then my
second man and the deceased each took
bar and pinched the ground for two
hours so as to take down all the loose
ground. We cleaned all the hanging
down good, but one piece OF vein was
loose aud we could not get that down.
Tho ninarc aiftinU hnpn rho
side looking at us. There was no crack
big enough tobut bar in. The deceased
said, The ground Is all right. it won't
fall down. He helped us with bar to
get the ground down. took the bar
again and sounded the vein rock. When
1 sounded it with the bar it sounded like
a drum, but could see no crack on it.
After that we let it go and starte TO
pull up timber. We got one piece up and
the deceased stood at the loot OF the tim
Der and piece OF vein fell on him. The |
rock was about feet long. 3 or feet |
wide and 3 inches thick. There were no |
cracks in the rock that we could see; we
could only tell by sound. The rock |
struck him on the side. 1t was about |
fifteen feet above the deceased's head. |
We took him from under the rock to
surface"
The next witness was Mat Vidner who
testified as follows:
II work with the same gang Of timber
men as deceased and was with him when
the accident occurred. The deceased and |
myself we're ON the ladder together akirg
down loose rock. Isaid, "Mat, there is one
piece Of YEN. will we try to take that
"A "a. u 1
and IT, sounded bad | could see no
crack, but | said we must take that down
no matter how long it takes The de
ceased said the rock was all right, but |
said no. He went down and would not
help me any more, so went down too
and the boss went up and tried 70 take
down the rock but couldn't. The rock |
Tell on jeceased's side and helped to
take it of him, but did not go TO surface
1t was three or four hours after we we're
barring the rock that IT fell. There was
a blast about two hours before the
rock fell down in the level" (
Albert Lantto, whose business il to go
through the stope and bar down loose
rock was the next witness and be simply
,orroborated the statements OF the
others without throwing any additional
light on the subject.
John Cbichosch, another timberman,
was the last witness and his testimony
was practically the came az the others.
The jury was not out long when they
eturned the following verdict:
Mat Baylor came to his death on the
LIST day OF December, A. d. 1896, by al
accident al fall OF vein rock from the south
II No. shalt, at the Goth level, Tama-
ack mine. GUST DONALD,
WILLIAM HALLow,
THOMAS WADE,
Con SHEA. II
WILLIAM CORNISH, 4,