Coal Miners Memorial, Rist Mine & Coke Works, Broad Ford, Fayette Co., PA, U.S.A.

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Coal Miners Memorial
Rist Mine & Coke Works,
Broad Ford,
Fayette County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

A Memorial to the Coal Miners that mined the Bituminous Coal seams of the Rist Mine, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Compiled & Edited by
Raymond A. Washlaski

Raymond A. Washlaski, Historian, Editor,
Ryan P. Washlaski, Technical Editor,

Updated Aug. 31, 2009

A Memorial to the Coal Miners that Worked the
Rist Mine & Coke Works

Following is a partial list of the miners, coke workers, mine employees and company store employees that worked the Rist Mine & Coke Works, Broad Ford, Fayette Co., PA. The coal miners names have been researched and complied from various sources by Raymond A. Washlaski, Historian: newspaper obits, newspaper articles, Pennsylvania Bureau of Mines Reports, township histories, and names of coal miners submitted by various people, etc..
The Nationalities listed for various miners, are taken directly from "Report of the Department of Mines of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA" as reported for the various years. Those listed as American, could be either native born or naturalized citizens.
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Since 1870, Pennsylvania's Annual Report on Mining Activities has recorded 51,483 deaths from mining accidents-- 31,113 deaths in anthracite coal mines and 20,370 deaths in bituminous coal mines.

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COAL MINERS MEMORIAL
RIST MINE & COKE WORKS

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[ B ]
Beals, Frank
(Miner, ca.1903, Rist Mine, Fayette Co., PA.)
Bolinsky, Felix
(Polish Miner, Pick Miner ca.1907, Rist Mine, Fayette Co., PA, Age 32, married.);
(Injured. Feet bruised by a fall of slate at the face of a pillar, in the Rist Mine, Feb. 9, 1907.)
Burkett, William
(American Miner, Company Man ca.1914, Rist Mine, Fayette Co., PA, Age 56, married.);
(Injured. Hip fractured by a fall of slate on an entry, while preparing to lay track, in the Rist Mine, Aug. 25, 1914.)
[ C ]
Chapman, Isaac
(American Miner, Mule Driver ca.1901, Rist Mine, Fayette Co., PA, Age 35,married, 3 children.);
(Killed. Fatally injured; crushed between mine cars ans a coal pillar, in the Rist Mine, Jan. 19, 1901. The victim was nearing the side track and in attempting to stop got off on the narrow side instead of the wide side for the purpose of applying the brake, and was crushed between the cars and the pillar, death resulted a few hours later.)
Clingerman, W. H.
(General Superintendent, ca.1905, ca.1906, ca.1912, H.C. Frick Coke Company, Scottdale, PA, Rist Mine, Fayette Co., PA.)
[ D ]
Davis, Calvin
(Miner, ca.1890, Rist Mine, Fayette Co., PA.);
(Injured. Injured in the Rist Mine, near Broadford, Feb. 15, 1890. He was caught between two mine wagons. [from the "Connellsville Courier," Connellsville, PA, Feb. 21, 1890.].)
Doll, Thomas
(Polish Miner, Pick Miner ca.1902, Rist Mine, Fayette Co., PA, Age 30, single.);
(Killed. Killed almost instantly by a fall of roof, in the Rist Mine, June 2, 1902.)
[ E ]
[ F ]
[ G ]
[ H ]
Hason, James
(See: Hasson, James.)
Hasson, James
(Miner, Pick Miner ca.1898, Rist Mine, Fayette Co., PA, Age 22, single.);
(Killed. Instantly killed by a fall of roof coal, in the Rist Mine, July 22, 1898.);
(James Hason, was instantly killed by a fall of roof coal on July 22, 1898 in Rist Mine. This accident happened in a very pecular manner. He was taking back a skip on main entry stump, and having a good roof he through to knock out some posts in order to allow the coal roof to fall because it was good clean coal, but by doing so he lost his life. This is easily explained to any one who draws ribs or stumps, that when a person wants to knock out posts they shoulkd be set up so close together that the drawing of one would not allow the whole roof to fall over them, but there is too much of this done, not alone by the foreign element that is here, for the same can be said for the American miners, as this is the second case of the kind this month in this district.)
(See also: Hason, James.)
[ I ]
[ J ]
Johnson, Albert
(Miner Boy, Trapper Boy ca.1886, Rist Mine, Broadford, Fayette Co., PA, Age 14.);
(Injured. Foot bruised by a pit wagon, in the Rist Mine, Sept. 11, 1886.)
[ K ]
Kennedy, O. W.
(General Superintendent, ca.1901, ca.1903, H.C. Frick Coke Company, Rist Mine, Fayette Co., PA.)
Kerfoot, Richard
(American Miner, Company man, Haulageway Repairman ca.1903, Rist Mine, Fayette Co., PA, Age 73, single.);
(Killed. Killed by mine cars. He was dead when found, in Rist Mine, June 2, 1903.);
(June 2, Rist Mine, Richard Kerfoot, haulageway repairman, was found dead. He was employed cleaning the track and repairing the rollers along the main haulage way. Patrick Reynolds, mine foreman, was the last person who saw him alive. Reynolds passed by riding upon the dilly trip of empty mine cars about 9.25 o'clock A.M., and as Kerfoot's watch was injured and had stopped at 9.34, it is presumed that he was caught by the returning loaded trip, as the position of the body also indicated that it had first been caught by the loaded trip. But nothing further was known of Kerfoot until his body, which was severed in twain, was discovered at 2.30 P.M. by Frank Beals, who was walking out by the haulage. The circumstances which caused the accident are unknow, as there was sufficient room all along the side for him to have gotten out of the way of the trip.)
Kerfoot, W.L.
(American Miner, Pick Miner ca.1902, Rist Mine, Fayette Co., PA, Age 40, married, 6 children.);
(Killed. Fatally injured by mine cars, in the Rist Mine, Aug. 4, 1902.)
[ L ]
Lynch, Clay F.
(General Superintendent, ca.1916, ca.1917, H. C. Frick Coke Company, Rist Mine, Fayette Co., PA.)
Lynch, James
(Superintendent, ca.1916, ca.1917, of the Rist Mine, Fayette Co., PA, for H.C. Frick Coke Company.)
Lynch, Thomas
(Superintendent, ca.1889, of the Rist Mine & Coke Works, Fayette Co., PA, for H.C. Frick Coke Company.)

[ M ]
Miller, Emanuel
(American Miner, Rist Mine, Fayette Co., PA, Age 22, single.);
(Injured. Slightly burned by a powder explosion, in the Rist Mine, Feb. 24, 1903.)
Mullen, Wm. C.
(Superintendent, ca.1898, ca.1901, ca.1903, ca.1905, ca.1906, of the Rist Mine, Fayette Co., PA, for H.C. Frick Coke Company, Scottdale, PA.)
[ N ]
[ O ]
[ P ]
[ Q ]
[ R ]
Ramsay, Robert
(Superintendent, ca.1886, of the Rist Mine, Broadford, Fayette Co., PA, for H.C. Frick Coke Company, Mt. Pleasant, PA.)
Reynolds, Patrick
(Miner, Mine Foreman ca.1903, Rist Mine, Fayette Co., PA.)
[ S ]
Schultz, Wm.
(Miner, Pick Miner ca.1889, Rist Mine, Fayette Co., PA, Age 28, married.);
(Injured. Hip joint dislocated by being caught by a mine car, in the Rist Mine, July 25, 1889.)
Shields, J. M.
(Superintendent, ca.1912, ca.1913, of the Rist Mine, Fayette Co., PA, for H.C. Frick Coke Company, Scottdale, PA.)
[ T ]
[ U ]
[ V ]
[ W ]
Winingroth, Charles
(Miner, Mine Foreman ca.1898, Rist Mine, Fayette Co., PA.)
Wyatt, Earl
(American Miner Boy, Horse Driver ca.1907, Rist Mine, Fayette Co., PA, Age 19, single.);
(Injured. Body injured; between a mine car and a horse, in the Rist Mine, Aug. 5, 1907.)
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A special thanks to Glen Dixon, Researcher, for his research in the "Connellsville Courier" Connellsville, PA newspaper and other newspapers of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and the addition of many of the miners names from Fayette County, Pennsylvania.

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