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Accidents - Ruth Ann Miller |
Accidents, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Persons |
Shown here is the open mine pit into which little Ruth Ann Miller, 7, is reputed to have fallen Saturday while playing and picking strawberries with her brother, Gary, 10. The mile deep vertical shaft is cluttered with debris, assorted timbers and pipes, so that these have to be removed before the improvised skip can be lowered. The cap is shown at left. About half of the slab has been broken to permit search operations. The protective barbed wire fence is revealed enclosing the pit opening. Photo was taken Saturday at 7:00 p.m. while miners and other workmen were readying a big Gundlach crane with extensive cable to act as a hoist engine. Location is near Calumet's Legion Field, about a mile distant from the pit. [Image of the shaft the child fell into.] Scanned: March 5, 2009 |
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Accidents - Ruth Ann Miller |
Accidents, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Persons |
Calumet and Hecla Fire Chief Al Beauchene was the first to enter the hole when the department arrived at the site shortly before noon Saturday. Firemen quickly enlarged the hole and used a ladder to allow Beauchene to enter the shaft. It was was determined soon afterward that part of the concrete cap would have to be removed. [Mr. Beauchene is shown at the opening of the pit.] Scanned: March 5, 2009 |
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Accidents - Ruth Ann Miller |
Accidents, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Persons |
The extent of company concern was seen Monday night in the arrival at the mine site of Jack Gaffney, right, vice president of administration of Calumet and Hecla, Inc. Gaffney, who flew in from the company's corporate office in Chicago, is briefed by Ralph Sanford, director of employee and public relations, who has spent almost every waking hour at the shaft since the tragedy occured. [One of the men looks at his watch as he speaks to the other.] Scanned: March 5, 2009 |
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Accidents - Ruth Ann Miller |
Accidents, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Persons |
Burton C. Peterson, right, president and general manager of the Calumet Division, confers with Robert DeNeault, safety engineer and a miner who had just surfaced from the shaft. Peterson has remained at the site of the tragedy throughout the operations. [Photo of the men being briefed.] Scanned: March 5, 2009 |
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Accidents - Ruth Ann Miller |
Accidents, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Persons |
[Final resting place of Ruth Ann.] Scanned: March 5, 2009 |
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Mine Rescue Crew |
Accidents, Fires, Mine Fires, Miners, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining |
Mine Rescue Crew, Quincy #2 Shaft, 1925-1926 Fire [A photo of a group of miners wearing breathing masks. The names of the miners are written on the front of the photograph.] Scanned: February 6, 2006 |
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Lake Superior Iron Mines - East Lake Angeline Mine |
Metal Trade, Iron Industry and Trade, Iron Mines and Mining, Accidents, |
East Lake Angeline Mine - caved material alongside of ore in place, the latter to be mined from drift below. Scanned: May 27, 2009 |
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Accidents - Ruth Ann Miller |
Accidents, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Persons |
Joseph Weiss, photo, and William Langdon, both mine captains, were the first two men to ride a cage into the shaft. When they surfaced, the need for a canopy on the man car was apparent. The men were soaking wet and spattered with mud. [Image of Mr. Weiss looking very concerned.] Scanned: March 5, 2009 |
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Calumet & Hecla Mining Company |
Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Miners, Copper Miners, Accidents |
Tamarack #3 Shaft 20th Level. First Aid [Underground scene of two miners applying a dressing to a head wound of another miner.] Scanned: October 10, 2006 |
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Calumet and Hecla |
Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Disasters, Mine Accidents, |
A rescue crew near shaft house, Calumet-Hecla Mines, Calumet, Mich. [Men outfitted in masks and tanks resembling scuba diving gear pose for a photo while transporting a man on a stretcher.] Scanned: December 15, 2009 |