{"id":4991,"date":"2014-06-21T21:40:01","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T02:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4991"},"modified":"2014-06-21T21:40:01","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T02:40:01","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-june-21-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4991","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour for June 21, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Obstructed Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from the Report of the Mine Inspector of Houghton County, Michigan, For the Year Ending September 30, 1892. \u00a0(Josiah Hall, Mine Inspector.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ACCIDENT 19.\u2014July 13.\u2014\u2014Occurred at the Atlantic Mine. \u00a0Thomas Alatala, with two other Trammers, was told by the Miners that they were about to blast a hole in the drift at the 9th level north of No. 1 shaft. \u00a0They started with the car of rock and when it had gone about one hundred and fifty feet the car was stopped by a rock that was on the track. \u00a0Alatala instead of taking shelter behind the stull timber, which he could easily have done, insisted upon removing the obstruction. \u00a0He had just risen up from doing so when he was struck on the head by a piece of rock from the blast and was instantly killed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Culled from:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #bb0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0942363477\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0942363477&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=theasylumeclecti\">Some fatal accidents in the Atlantic, Baltic, Champion, Trimountain, and Winona copper mines (A local history series)<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=theasylumeclecti&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0942363477\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Obstructed Yet Truly Morbid Fact! Excerpt from the Report of the Mine Inspector of Houghton County, Michigan, For the Year Ending September 30, 1892. \u00a0(Josiah Hall, Mine Inspector.) ACCIDENT 19.\u2014July 13.\u2014\u2014Occurred at the Atlantic Mine. \u00a0Thomas Alatala, with two other Trammers, was told by the Miners that they were about to blast a hole [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4998,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991\/revisions\/4998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}