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MINER KILLED AT FLAT RIVER
Bonne Terre Register, Nov. 13, 1908

      A peculiar and probably the first accident of its kind in the history mining in this country happened at Flat River last Monday when John Casebault was instantly killed while riding out of Federal Shaft No. 6 on the cage after finishing a day's work.

      In some unknown manner the unfortunate man got his head out to one side of the cage and struck a cross timber, resulting in instant death.  There were on the cage several other men who were also coming off shift, but none of them knew that Caseboult had been killed until the cage reached the top.  His head was badly crushed and almost torn from his body.

     When the men got onto the cage at the bottom they all put out their lamps, and, since no one saw the accident, and as it takes less than a minute to hoist the cage to the top, the time was too short to discover it until the cage reached the top.  An examination of the timber showed that the unfortunate man's head struck a timber. 

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