Mother Caroline Gunter
Joseph James, a well-known resident of Cuba City, was dashed to death down an eighty-foot shaft Wednesday just before noon at the Roosevelt mine. The other men at the mine state that something went wrong with the air compressor and Mr. James went down the shaft to tell the workmen below that he was about to shut off the air.
After having done so, he stepped into the tub and gave the signal to hoist. The tub rose toward the surface, but just before nearing the top it became unhooked in some manner, and precipitated Mr. James to the bottom about seventy feet below. His skull was crushed and broken and other injuries from which he died later. He leaves a wife and one son.
The Platteville Journal 1 Nov 1911
Contributor Audrey Quinn Porter
Joseph James, a well-known resident of Cuba City, was dashed to death down an eighty-foot shaft Wednesday just before noon at the Roosevelt mine. The other men at the mine state that something went wrong with the air compressor and Mr. James went down the shaft to tell the workmen below that he was about to shut off the air.
After having done so, he stepped into the tub and gave the signal to hoist. The tub rose toward the surface, but just before nearing the top it became unhooked in some manner, and precipitated Mr. James to the bottom about seventy feet below. His skull was crushed and broken and other injuries from which he died later. He leaves a wife and one son.
The Platteville Journal 1 Nov 1911
Contributor Audrey Quinn Porter
Mother Caroline Gunter
Joseph James, a well-known resident of Cuba City, was dashed to death down an eighty-foot shaft Wednesday just before noon at the Roosevelt mine. The other men at the mine state that something went wrong with the air compressor and Mr. James went down the shaft to tell the workmen below that he was about to shut off the air.
After having done so, he stepped into the tub and gave the signal to hoist. The tub rose toward the surface, but just before nearing the top it became unhooked in some manner, and precipitated Mr. James to the bottom about seventy feet below. His skull was crushed and broken and other injuries from which he died later. He leaves a wife and one son.
The Platteville Journal 1 Nov 1911
Contributor Audrey Quinn Porter
Joseph James, a well-known resident of Cuba City, was dashed to death down an eighty-foot shaft Wednesday just before noon at the Roosevelt mine. The other men at the mine state that something went wrong with the air compressor and Mr. James went down the shaft to tell the workmen below that he was about to shut off the air.
After having done so, he stepped into the tub and gave the signal to hoist. The tub rose toward the surface, but just before nearing the top it became unhooked in some manner, and precipitated Mr. James to the bottom about seventy feet below. His skull was crushed and broken and other injuries from which he died later. He leaves a wife and one son.
The Platteville Journal 1 Nov 1911
Contributor Audrey Quinn Porter
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