Today’s Striking Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
Excerpt from the Mine Inspector’s Report for Houghton County, Michigan, for the Year Ending September 30, 1901 by Josiah Hall, Mine Inspector.
ACCIDENT No. 23. – May 24th. Sakri Koupos, a trammer employed in the 4th level, north of “A” shaft, Atlantic Mine, met with a fatal accident by being struck with a rock from a blast. The miners working in the drift set fire to the fuse of two holes, and notified the trammers to get out of the way of the blast. The deceased stood by the side of the car, about two hundred feet from the blast. When the second blast went off it threw a rock which struck Koupos on the head. He was at once taken to surface. He expired just as he was taken to his home. No inquest was held.
Culled from: Some fatal accidents in the Atlantic, Baltic, Champion, Trimountain, and Winona copper mines (A local history series)
Mortuary Photo Du Jour!
The following image is culled from Sleeping Beauty III: Memorial Photography: The Children
MOTHER IN WHITE SHAWL WITH HER SON
Daguerreotype 1/6 Plate, Circa 1845