Mrs. David Jones was fatally injured in an accident of unknown cause at the above location and date.  Source: Pennsylvania Mine Accident Index (F-Li)

— 1874 —

Mrs. (lno) Huber was fatally injured in an accident of unknown cause at the above location and date.  Source: Ohio Mine Accident Index

— 1881 —

Mrs. Jonathan Hawkins was fatally injured following a series of snowslides which, in addition to the tragic loss of life, demolished two boarding houses, a compressor, and a station house associated with the Little Cottonwood Canyon Mine.  Several people in the boarding house were killed.  Source: Utah Mine Accident Index

— 1891 —

Mrs. William Williams was fatally injured in an accident of unknown cause at the above location and date.  Source: Pennsylvania Mine Accident Index (Ro-Zz)

— 1902 —

Mrs. Charles Proctor was fatally injured in an accident of unknown cause at the above location and date.  Source: Missouri Mining Accidents 1871-1971

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Mrs. Cartright, wife of Foreman Cartright, along with a lady friend of Mrs. Cartright were killed when they lost control of the elevator they were riding in descending into an unnamed mine.  Mr. Cartright and two children were injured in the fall.  Source document

— 1913 —

Mrs. F. Collyardi, age 32, was fatally injured in an accident of unknown cause at the above location and date.  Source: Sherard Collection

— 1920 —

Mrs. Annie Kasmonites, an aged woman, met with fatal injuries when she was struck by the small mine "lokie" at No. 11 shaft.  The deceased was picking coal near the mouth of the tunnel and before the engineer could stop the small engine, she was run down.  Source document

— 1931 —

Mrs. Emma Ricketts, age 66, was fatally injured in an accident of unknown cause at the above location and date.  Source: Kansas Mine Accident Index

— 1932 —

Mrs. Naomi Jarvis was killed when a cave-in occurred in an unnamed gold mine in the San Gabriel Canyon near Covina, California.  Mrs. Jarvis and another miner, David Workman, were caught in the collapse.  Mr. Workman was freed from the material by rescuers after an undisclosed period.  Source document

— 1933 —

Mrs. Clara Moger was fatally injured in an accident of unknown cause at the above location and date.  Source: North Dakota Mine Accident Index

— 1936 —

20 miners were trapped for 10 hours in a tunnel of the Bird Camp Gold Mine by an avalanche of snow.  Two men and a woman were killed when the avalanche roared down Devil's Slide of Chicago Hill smashing a bunkhouse and closing the mouth of the mine tunnel.  Source document

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Mrs. M. C. Losier, 67, died from injuries suffered in a mine roof fall in a mine she operated near Derry, Pennsylvania.  Believed to be the only woman coal operator in Westmoreland County, she had operated the mine ever since her husband died several years earlier.  Source document

— 1943 —

Mrs. Mary E. Elliott was crushed to death by a heavy boulder at the Wide Awake mine when a derrick boom snapped and dislodged the boulder.  The mine has been operated during the summer by Mrs. Elliott and her husband Alfred.  Source document

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Sherry LaGace, 24, was killed October 25th when a heavy-duty scraper she was operating stalled and overturned on a steep hill at a Hol-Acc Corporation strip mine near Pikeville.  The Kentucky Office of Mines and Minerals said Ms. LaGace was the first woman of record to die in a coal mine mishap in the state.  Source document

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Mary Bradley, 23, was one of two people killed when 100 to 150 lbs. of dynamite they had set in place detonated prematurely.  Five other workers were hospitalized for injuries and shock.  Source document

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Non-Production Mine Accidents

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Mrs. Sophia White, 35, together with her husband and son were picking coal in a mine breach in Mahanoy City.  They were at work under a ledge of slate and rock.  Without warning this rock became loosened and struck the woman and completely buried her.    Source document

— 1966 —

Ruth Ann Miller, age 7, fell into the abandoned North Tamarack No. 4 shaft of Calumet and Hecla Incorporated.  Source document

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Amy Armstrong, 26, fell under the wheels of a mine train carrying about 40 people during a mine tour of the Copper Queen Haunted Mine 1,500 feet inside a mountain.  Armstrong apparently had been caught under a fallen wooden beam and was pinned against the wall of the mine by the train until several men freed her.  Source document

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