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Calumet and Hecla |
Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Accidents, Persons |
Drum Wreck at #9 & 10 Engine House [Image of engine house with large hole in wall.] Scanned: December 18, 2009 |
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Calumet and Hecla |
Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Accidents, Persons |
Drum Wreck at #9 & 10 Engine House [Two workers observe the damage done by the "fly away" hoist drum.] Scanned: December 18, 2009 |
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No. 3 North Kearsarge |
Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Accidents, Explosions, Persons |
Boiler Explosion at No. 3 North Kearsarge [Image of some of the destruction.] Scanned: January 19, 2010 |
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Calumet and Hecla |
Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Disasters, Mine Accidents, Persons |
Final cave in at surface, showing upper part of last stope, all copper rock below having been removed. Calumet - Hecla Mines, Calumet, Mich. [Two barely visible men stand in opening of stope. Mining buildings in full operation stand above the crater.] Scanned: December 15, 2009 |
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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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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 |