Some Fatal Accidents in the Atlantic, Baltic, Champion, Trimountain and Winona C

Description: RailroadTreasures offers the following item: Some Fatal Accidents in the Atlantic, Baltic, Champion, Trimountain and Winona C Some Fatal Accidents in the Atlantic, Baltic, Champion, Trimountain and Winona Copper Mines by Clarence J. Monette Soft cover THe area above the ISBN number is a little sticky Copyright March 15, 1994 Clarence J. Monette 128 pages Nameof minerMineDate killedPage ALATALA, ThomasAtlantic MineJul 13, 189219 ANDERSON, JacobTrimountain MineJun 22, 190870 ANTILLA, CharlesChampion MineFeb 8,191189 BAGNOLE, FrankChampion MineApr 13, 190866 BARTLE, Richard J.Champion MineNov 2, 191196 BARTOLOMEI, SatanaChampion MineFeb 11, 190863 BATTISTA, OrlandoBaltic MineFeb 17, 191081 BENITZ, IgnatzTrimountain MineSep 28, 190235 BOIJT,StephenChampion MineDec 22, 191089 BRIDGMAN,HenryBaltic MineMar 11, 189826(First fatal accident at the Baltic) BUSSIO, JohnBaltic MineApr 6, 191192 CAPANAN, GustAtlantic MineAug 30, 190233 CARLSON, AlexTrimountain MineSep 5, 1912106 CARNE, WilliamTrimountain MineMay 25, 190130(First fatal accident at the Trimountain) CHIPMAN, AlfredTrimountain MineSep 10, 190234 CHOPP, AntonTrimountain MineJun 23, 190340 CURNOW, RichardChampion MineJul 31, 190342 ENOJARVI, JacobAtlantic MineFeb 1, 190129 GARINEN, MattAtlantic MineAug 12, 189219 GAROPECHNIK, FrankBaltic MineOct 19, 190977 GIANNELLI, RaffaelloBaltic MineMar 5, 1913115 GINGARI, EgedieoTrimountain MineMar 17, 191083 GIRODO, DomonickBaltic MineAug 7, 1912105 GRUBBY, SylviaBaltic MineJul 3, 190340 HALLINEN, HenryBaltic MineJul 29, 191086 HANLEY, JohnAtlantic MineOct 13, 189221 HARJU, ArvidChampion MineOct 10, 190643 HARNALA, MattAtlantic MineMay 17, 190232 HARRIS, HellyarBaltic MineJul 3, 191193 HART, LouisBaltic MineJan 17, 190231 HENDRICKSON, Charles King Philip MineJul 28, 190872 HENWOOD, RichardChampion MineJun 5, 190869 HYVONEN, VictorTrimountain MineJul 6, 190755 JABILOFF, MichaelChampion MineJan 9, 1914 120 JACKALA, DavidAtlantic MineNov 9, 189014 JAMES, Thomas W.Winona MineJun 13, 191193 KENDALL, FredBaltic MineJan 4, 190744 KESSELL, RichardTrimountain MineOct 30, 190759 KINNEN, FrankBaltic MineJan 26, 1914 121 KOSKI, CharlieWinona MineJan 16, 190862 KOUPOS, SakriAtlantic MineMay 24, 190029 KURENSAARI, IsaacWinona MineJul 15, 190342(First fatal accident at the Winona Mine) LAUKKA, Henry Winona MineJan 16, 1908 62 LEE, Wilfred Baltic Mine Dec 18, 190760 LEINONEN, Jacob Baltic Mine Jul 21, 190871 LEJONKLON, William Baltic Mine Mar 7, 1910 82 LOUMA, Alex Baltic Mine Dec 6, 191197 LUKOSO, Adam Wyandot MineMar 18, 190339 MAGNANI, Felice Trimountain MineMar 21, 1912101 MAMULA, Peter Trimountain Mine Feb 11, 1910 80 MARTINUCCE, John Trimountain Mine May 16, 1908 68 MATTSON, OscarAtlantic Mine Sep 20, 189116 MATTSON, SackrisAtlantic MineJan 4, 190230 MILLER, SeischerAtlantic MineDec 15, 188911(First reported fatal accident at the Atlantic Mine) MOILA, IsaacChampion MineOct 2, 1912 113 NALTONEN, ArvidBaltic MineMar 23, 1914123 NICHOLLS, JohnTrimountain MineMay 9, 190752 NICHOLLS, RobertChampion MineMay 15, 190749 NIKES, OscarAtlantic MineNov 24, 190028 NINNES, HenryTrimountain MineNov 10, 1902 38 NISKA, IsaacAtlantic MineFeb 1, 190029 NISKONEN, SacrisAtlantic MineSep 28, 1898 28 PAVER, JosephBaltic MineFeb 13, 191298 PETERSON, PeterAtlantic MineJune 28, 189012 PHILLIPS, SamuelWinona MineApr 17, 1913116 PIZA, AugustTrimountain MineMay 22, 1912102 PLAVAK, WalterChampion Mine Jul 24, 1912 104 POLKINGHORNE, EdwardAtlantic MineJul 28, 1891 16 PREDOVICH, AndyWinona MineDec 13, 1912 114 PUCCI, CharlesBaltic MineOct 18, 191195 RANTA, JohnChampion MineDec 29, 190978 REPONICH, MattBaltic MineSep 14, 1912109 REMAKKA, AndrewWinona MineFeb 19, 190746 RICHARDS, HenryAtlantic MineApr 2, 1894 24 ROWLAND ThomasAtlantic Mine Aug 9, 190233(Mining Shift Captain) RUNDLE, RichardChampion MineJul 30, 1912104 SANSOE, DominickChampion MineJul 5, 190753 SAUNDRY, JohnChampion MineApr 12, 190750 SERVIO, Herman Champion Mine Aug 3, 190756 SHEEAN, Michael Atlantic MineFeb 9, 189218 SMITH, MichaelChampion Mine Jul 19, 1902 32 SMITH, Stephen Atlantic Mine Apr 1, 189827 (Aged 17) STIMAC, Tony Champion Mine Jul 22, 1912 110 TAKANEN, Matt Champion Mine Mar 5, 190747 TAVCAR, Joseph Baltic Mine May 15, 1910 84 THOMAS, William B. Atlantic Mine Dec 16, 189423 TRESIDDER, Joseph Trimountain Mine Oct 24, 1913 119 TUKARE, Elias Atlantic Mine Jan 19, 1891 14 TULLILA, Matt Baltic Mine Jan 26, 1914 121 VIAL, Thomas Atlantic Mine Aug 10, 189321 WEITMAN, Walter Winona Mine Mar 11, 1912100 WERALA, PeterAtlantic Mine Nov 26, 1902 38 INTRODUCTION Each year the Houghton County Mine Inspector filed a "Mine Inspector's Report" with the County Board of Supervisors. A State law enacted in 1887 called for mine inspectors to be selected by county boards of supervisors, however, these boards were already controlled by the local mining companies. This report was intended to give a brief description of each "important" fatal accident which occurred in Houghton County mines for the period ending September 30th of that year. The inspector ignored thousands of less-than-fatal injuries. Michigan Technological University Professor Larry Lankton states in his book "Cradle to Grave" that in the early decades of many workers, and particularly the dominant Cornishmen, came from long mining traditions. Under the old rules, the companies were not responsible for providing a safe environment. A mine was a dangerous place, and there was nothing the companies could do to change this cruel reality. Under the old rules, companies looked after the safety of their tools and equipment, but the men looked after themselves. If anyone could be blamed for a fatality, it was always the victim himself. Men were negligent, careless, and paid the price. Companies put a heavy burden on the individual worker and had no patience with timid men who complained. At the same time, they faulted other workers for being too confident or brave, because they became foolhardy and careless. Professor Lankton stated that underground captains and bosses occasionally scolded workers for following unsafe practices, but the person most responsible for a man's safety was the man himself. Men primarily learned their jobs and their safety practices from other more experienced workers. If a man did not follow safe practices and got killed, or if he died after a fellow worker put him in jeopardy, that was not the company's fault. Mine Inspector Josiah Hall stated in his 1891 report "Reviewing the fatal accidents that have happened one cannot fail to note the fact that many of them are due to carelessness or lack of thought at the time of occurrence. The number of men employed in the mines of Houghton County for the year (1891) were 7,702.Lives lost by accidents was 28 or about 3.6 per thousand. While this is a little above the ratio reported by the inspector of mines in Great Britain, the different conditions that exist here will fully compensate for the increase." "The British metalliferous veins are comparatively narrow and generally nearly vertical, so that the exposed walls are more easily secured. These, too, with the traming and character of the men employed is a great advantage. None but skilled miners are employed and many of them brought up from boyhood in mines where they spent many years." "In our mines the great width and often the broken character of hanging-wall rock is a constant source of danger, compelling expensive and extensive systems of timbering and requiring the utmost watchfulness to prevent accidents." "A large proportion of our miners and laborers employed underground understand the English language imperfectly, and mining is taken up by them after arrival from a country where they had not seen a mine, and this very often after attaining maturity." In the nineteenth century, it was unfortunate when a man died at work, but his death usually did not trigger public protest. Death was never distant or rare on the Keweenaw. There was nothing exceptionally tragic about a man's death under a pile of mine rock, and communities did not single out mine accident victims as worthy of extraordinary sympathy. Professor Lankton noted that mine accidents usually killed one or two men at a time, so individual deaths did not cast a pall over large segments of the population. A death at one mine had little or no meaning to residents of another. Also, each mining community was subdivided into various ethnic elements, and ethnic identification largely defined for whom a person should mourn. People mourned for their "own kind" more than for others. The Company usually gave the widow $50.00 for a funeral and let her stay in the company house as long as she was single. Larry Lankton's book "Cradle to Grave - Life, Work, and Death- at the Lake Superior-Copper Mines documents the full life cycle of one of American's great mineral ranges from the 1840s to the 1960s. It is of interest to any copper mining industry historian. The first Mine Inspector's Report for Houghton County was printed in 1889. However, the first Range Town entry was a year later, in 1890, when two men were killed that year while working in the Atlantic mine. Serious copper mining started in the Range Towns of Baltic, Painesdale, Trimountain and Winona at the turn of the century, however, the Atlantic's first reported fatal accident occurred on December 15, 1890. Original copies of these mining inspector reports for the period 1889 through 1971 can be read at the Library Archives, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan. The call number is: TN 24.M5 H8 Arch. This university library archives is open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and throughout the lunch hour. Several of the reports pertaining to men who were killed in the Baltic, Champion, Trimountain and Winona copper mines were extracted from original reports and are reprinted as they were published. No special selections or alterations were made. 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