Son of William F. Kirkpatrick and Tricey Ellen House.
Illinois Statewide Death Index: KIRKPATRICK ELMER M/W UNK 0007876 1921-02-23 JACKSON ELK TWP 21-04-10.
The Rockford Republic Thursday, February 24, 1921 Men Given Up For Dead In Fire Trap. Flames Raging Since Wednesday Cause Gallery Sealing. DuQuoin, Ill., Feb. 24---All hope for the lives of seven men imprisoned in the Kathleen of the Union Collieries Co., at Dowell, Ill., were given up today when mine rescue squads sealed up a gallery in which fire has been raging since late yesterday. The seven men, working in the gallery, according to officials of the company were cut off by the flames. The gallery will not be unsealed for about thirty days, it was said, when an attempt will be made to find the bodies. The sealing process was used to check the flames from spreading to other sections of the mine only after all hope for the men had been abandoned. The following men are entombed in the mine: Edward O'Brien, Jacob Valerius, James Ferris and Thomas Wahl of Dowell; Adam Klepecky, Elmer Kirkpatrick and Brown Smith of DuQuoin.
Electric Wire Cause
The fire is believed to have been the result of an electric wire coming in contact with a canvas curtain which hung in the entry, where the blaze started, the fire spreading with such rapidity that the seven men who are entombed were unable to make their escape. The mine rescue teams from DuQuoin, Benton, Dowell, Elkville and Hallidayboro arrived on the scene, but their efforts to get to the prisoners proved futile because of the intense heat and fumes.
The Du Quoin Tribune, Friday, April 8, 1921: Abstracted: The Earth Gives Up Its Prey---Bodies of Miners Rescued from Kathleen Shaft. The bodies of the seven entombed miners were not mutilated by burns or scratches. The succumbed to gas, and we are told the black damp ills almost as quickly as bullets. No braver was ever won and these lowly miners, every one, proved their Knighthood.
Illinois Statewide Death Index: KIRKPATRICK ELMER M/W UNK 0007876 1921-02-23 JACKSON ELK TWP 21-04-10.
The Rockford Republic Thursday, February 24, 1921 Men Given Up For Dead In Fire Trap. Flames Raging Since Wednesday Cause Gallery Sealing. DuQuoin, Ill., Feb. 24---All hope for the lives of seven men imprisoned in the Kathleen of the Union Collieries Co., at Dowell, Ill., were given up today when mine rescue squads sealed up a gallery in which fire has been raging since late yesterday. The seven men, working in the gallery, according to officials of the company were cut off by the flames. The gallery will not be unsealed for about thirty days, it was said, when an attempt will be made to find the bodies. The sealing process was used to check the flames from spreading to other sections of the mine only after all hope for the men had been abandoned. The following men are entombed in the mine: Edward O'Brien, Jacob Valerius, James Ferris and Thomas Wahl of Dowell; Adam Klepecky, Elmer Kirkpatrick and Brown Smith of DuQuoin.
Electric Wire Cause
The fire is believed to have been the result of an electric wire coming in contact with a canvas curtain which hung in the entry, where the blaze started, the fire spreading with such rapidity that the seven men who are entombed were unable to make their escape. The mine rescue teams from DuQuoin, Benton, Dowell, Elkville and Hallidayboro arrived on the scene, but their efforts to get to the prisoners proved futile because of the intense heat and fumes.
The Du Quoin Tribune, Friday, April 8, 1921: Abstracted: The Earth Gives Up Its Prey---Bodies of Miners Rescued from Kathleen Shaft. The bodies of the seven entombed miners were not mutilated by burns or scratches. The succumbed to gas, and we are told the black damp ills almost as quickly as bullets. No braver was ever won and these lowly miners, every one, proved their Knighthood.
Son of William F. Kirkpatrick and Tricey Ellen House.
Illinois Statewide Death Index: KIRKPATRICK ELMER M/W UNK 0007876 1921-02-23 JACKSON ELK TWP 21-04-10.
The Rockford Republic Thursday, February 24, 1921 Men Given Up For Dead In Fire Trap. Flames Raging Since Wednesday Cause Gallery Sealing. DuQuoin, Ill., Feb. 24---All hope for the lives of seven men imprisoned in the Kathleen of the Union Collieries Co., at Dowell, Ill., were given up today when mine rescue squads sealed up a gallery in which fire has been raging since late yesterday. The seven men, working in the gallery, according to officials of the company were cut off by the flames. The gallery will not be unsealed for about thirty days, it was said, when an attempt will be made to find the bodies. The sealing process was used to check the flames from spreading to other sections of the mine only after all hope for the men had been abandoned. The following men are entombed in the mine: Edward O'Brien, Jacob Valerius, James Ferris and Thomas Wahl of Dowell; Adam Klepecky, Elmer Kirkpatrick and Brown Smith of DuQuoin.
Electric Wire Cause
The fire is believed to have been the result of an electric wire coming in contact with a canvas curtain which hung in the entry, where the blaze started, the fire spreading with such rapidity that the seven men who are entombed were unable to make their escape. The mine rescue teams from DuQuoin, Benton, Dowell, Elkville and Hallidayboro arrived on the scene, but their efforts to get to the prisoners proved futile because of the intense heat and fumes.
The Du Quoin Tribune, Friday, April 8, 1921: Abstracted: The Earth Gives Up Its Prey---Bodies of Miners Rescued from Kathleen Shaft. The bodies of the seven entombed miners were not mutilated by burns or scratches. The succumbed to gas, and we are told the black damp ills almost as quickly as bullets. No braver was ever won and these lowly miners, every one, proved their Knighthood.
Illinois Statewide Death Index: KIRKPATRICK ELMER M/W UNK 0007876 1921-02-23 JACKSON ELK TWP 21-04-10.
The Rockford Republic Thursday, February 24, 1921 Men Given Up For Dead In Fire Trap. Flames Raging Since Wednesday Cause Gallery Sealing. DuQuoin, Ill., Feb. 24---All hope for the lives of seven men imprisoned in the Kathleen of the Union Collieries Co., at Dowell, Ill., were given up today when mine rescue squads sealed up a gallery in which fire has been raging since late yesterday. The seven men, working in the gallery, according to officials of the company were cut off by the flames. The gallery will not be unsealed for about thirty days, it was said, when an attempt will be made to find the bodies. The sealing process was used to check the flames from spreading to other sections of the mine only after all hope for the men had been abandoned. The following men are entombed in the mine: Edward O'Brien, Jacob Valerius, James Ferris and Thomas Wahl of Dowell; Adam Klepecky, Elmer Kirkpatrick and Brown Smith of DuQuoin.
Electric Wire Cause
The fire is believed to have been the result of an electric wire coming in contact with a canvas curtain which hung in the entry, where the blaze started, the fire spreading with such rapidity that the seven men who are entombed were unable to make their escape. The mine rescue teams from DuQuoin, Benton, Dowell, Elkville and Hallidayboro arrived on the scene, but their efforts to get to the prisoners proved futile because of the intense heat and fumes.
The Du Quoin Tribune, Friday, April 8, 1921: Abstracted: The Earth Gives Up Its Prey---Bodies of Miners Rescued from Kathleen Shaft. The bodies of the seven entombed miners were not mutilated by burns or scratches. The succumbed to gas, and we are told the black damp ills almost as quickly as bullets. No braver was ever won and these lowly miners, every one, proved their Knighthood.
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