Falls 125 Feet Down Ore Schute Sunday Morning.Iven Gibson, age 31, died at the Bonne Terre hospital as the result of injuries he sustained when he fell 125 feet down an ore schute at No. 9 Doe Run Lead Company shaft 3 o'clock Sunday morning. He had been employed as a shoveler on the top level of the shaft. He had just completed his shift's work and was riding to the shaft on the rear of an ore car which was being hauled by a mule, driven by Wm. Campbell. When the cars near the ore schute the mules are switched off and the cars are automatically dumped down the schute. Gibson failed to get off the car in time and was dumped down the schute with the ore. He was immediately removed to the hospital, where he died without ever having regained consciousness. Gibson had recently come to the Lead Belt from Poplar Bluff. Sunday was his second shift's work underground. His wife arrived from Poplar Bluff Sunday evening and took charge of the body. An inquest was conducted by Coroner Prather at Bonne Terre Sunday evening. Published by THE LEAD BELT NEWS, Flat River, St. Francois Co. MO, May 4, 1917.Man Killed After Working Two Shifts in the Mines. Ivan Gibson, of Poplar Bluff, came to the lead belt the first of last week and got a job in the mines for the Doe Run Lead Co. He went to work at shaft No. 9 last Friday night, and worked Friday and Saturday nights. The first night he worked on the bottom level and the second night on the top level. After loading the last car for the shift he climbed on the back end of the car to ride to the shaft and instead of getting safely to the shaft he was dumped into an ore bin 125 feet deep. The cars instead of being hoisted from that level are dumped into the bin and hoisted from the bottom, this he did not know and the mule driver did not know that Gibson was on the car, so he just did as he had always done, drove his mule from the tracks and let the car run into the dump. Gibson was taken from the ore bin and rushed to the Bonne Terre Hospital where he lived until about 9 a.m. Sunday. He was about 30 years of age and leaves a wife and three children to mourn his loss. A coroner's inquest was held Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The remains were shipped to Poplar Bluff for burial. Published by the DESLOGE SUN, Desloge, Missouri, May 4, 1917. |
