HARRISON MASSENGALE

    Harrison Massengale, a car loader at mine No. 1 of the St. Joseph Lead Company, was killed January 16, 1904, by being struck or crushed by the car at the chute.  The accident occurred at about 11:30 p.m.  From the testimony at the inquest it would appear that Massengale's duty was to load the car, and that when the car was filled he should flash a red light signal and when empty the signal was white.   The engineer, Thomas Bell, stated that he failed to get any signal when the car was let down, and he sent men down to find out what was the matter.  They found the man under the car and dead.  It seems he had gone in on the landing to clean off some rocks and the descending car caught him.  He went in there of his own volition, without notifying the engineer by signal.  The verdict of the coroner's jury was that "Massengale came to his death by accident, and that his death was due to the fact that he failed to give the hoisting engineer the proper signal."  Deceased was an American, married and had two children.

[Taken from the 18th Annual Report of the Bureau of Mines and Mine Inspection of the State of Missouri for Year Ending December 31, 1904.]

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