Today’s Well-Swept Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
Excerpt from the Report of the Mine Inspector of Houghton County, Michigan, for the Year Ending September 30, 1892:
Accident 9 occurred February 9th. Michael Sheean, a Lander at No. 4 shaft, Atlantic Mine, had dumped the skip and sent the car to the Rock-House, — which is about one hundred feet from the Shaft-House. He took a broom and was sweeping off some rock from the track with his face toward the returning car, but did not step aside when the car came to him, and he was dragged some thirty feet under it before the car was thrown from the track. He was killed instantly.
Culled from: Some fatal accidents in the Atlantic, Baltic, Champion, Trimountain, and Winona copper mines (A local history series)
