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Note: This is a newspaper article that appeared in the Ottawa Republican on Thursday December 30, 1915.
This article is copied exacly as it appeared, including all typos.
MAN FATALLY HURT IN
LA SALLE COAL MINE Emil Bernard Slips on Rail and Falls
Under Car Wheels--Dies in Hospital La Salle, Ill.. Dec. 29.--(Special to Republican-Times.)--While he was
uncoupling a car for a switch in the
M & H mine yesterday afternoon E.
Bernard, 1605 Fourth stret, slipped on
the rail and fell under the wheels.
He was so badly injured that he
died several hours later in St. Mary's
hospital, whither he was removed im-
mediately after the accident.
Bernard, who went to work at 2:30 yesterday afternoon, was employed
as a driver in the mine. He was haul-
ing a load near the mouth of the
shaft at 3:45, when he sought to un-
couple a car, and during this opera-
tion he slipped and fell. The cars
crushed his chest, and also badly
bruised asd lacerated the left side
of his head. William Peck, one of
the bosses, witnessed the accident,
and he was the first man to reach
Bernard's side. He called further as-
sistance and aided in removing the
victim to the top and thence to St.
Mary's hospital.
The injured man regained his con- sciousness, and he asked that the
news be kept from his wife until 6
o'clock, but shortly before that hour
he passed away. It was about that
time that a son of Mr. Bernard, who
had gone to post a letter, heard a re-
port that his father had sustained a
fractured leg and that he and his
mother were wanted at the hospital.
They hurried to St. Mary, but did
not arrive until half past six--half an
hour after death had come.
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