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MINER KILLED IN FALLAT HIBERNIA SHAFTWilliam Kelly, a miner, fell in or out of the “skip” at the Hibernia mine on Sun* day night and was instantly kilted.Kelly reported for work Sunday 'night a little after 8:30 o’clock just after the other men had gone into the mine. He climbed in the skip and descended and. it is supposed that as the skip passed downward the unfortunate man’s clothing caught on a protruding timber or something and that he hung suspended until the skip Ijad dropped several hundred feet Then it Is supposed that he became loosened from the timber or that which held him and fell, striking the various “stoops” in his downward course. The body was found in the skip at the bottom of the shaft thejife having been knocked out of him before he landed. There was scarcely a whole bone In the frame*Kelly was 39 years old and leaves a wife and seven children. He had worked at Hibernia at his calling for twenty-three years.
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Dover Iron Era
Dover, New Jersey, US
Fri, Feb 17, 1905
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