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A FATAL FALL
September 2 1884 -
St. Louis Globe-Democrat


Bonne Terre, Mo., September 1.,At 9 a.m. to-day John Kocsis, a Hungarian laborer in the St. Joe mine, while pushing cars on an upper level of the mine, fell with a loaded car through the opening at the hoisting shaft to the lower level, a distance of about forty feet, and was instantly killed.