JOHN GALO
John Galo, a miner employed at shaft No. 3 of the St. Joseph Lead Company, met with a fatal accident June 3, 1904, by falling from the cage while being hoisted to the top. Bill Henson, the shaft boss, and five other men, mostly Hungarians, were in the cage with Galo, when he fell. Dr. C. P. Poston, the company's physician, was called to attend the injured man, and found that he had sustained various cuts and contusions on the head and other parts of the body, his left hip being broken. The man did not recover consciousness and died the same evening. The testimony of Galo's companions at the time of the accident failed to disclose at the coroner's inquest just how the man fell, except that one of them, Paul Segor, stated that Galo was not holding on to the bars of the cage as the others were, and he cautioned him to take hold of the bars. None saw him fall, as all were looking up and it was dark in the shaft. The deceased was 20 years of age and single. The verdict of the coroner's jury was that "deceased came to his death by falling from a cage in No. 3 shaft while coming from work, and that the falling was accidental".
[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.]