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Canoe Ridge No. 1 Mine
(Rossiter No. 1 Mine),
Canoe Ridge No. 2 Mine
(Rossiter No. 2 Mine),
Canoe Ridge No. 3 Mine
(Rossiter No. 3 Mine),
Canoe Ridge No. 4 Mine
(Rossiter No. 4 Mine),
Rossiter No. 5 Mine,
Rossiter No. 6 Mine,

Rossiter,
Canoe Twp.,
Indiana County,
Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

A Memorial to the Coal Miners that mined the Bituminous Coal seams of the Rossiter Mines, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Compiled & Edited by
Raymond A. Washlaski

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

Updated Sept. 10, 2010

A Memorial to the Coal Miners that Worked the
Canoe Ridge Mines "Rossiter Mines"


Following is a partial list of the miners, mine employees and company store employees that worked the Canoe Ridge Mine "Rossiter Mines," Rossiter, Canoe Twp., Indiana Co., PA.   The coal miners names have been researched and complied from various sources by Raymond A. Washlaski, Historian: newspaper obits, newspaper articles, Birth Records, 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 mines and 20,370 deaths in bituminous mines.

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COAL MINERS MEMORIAL
CANOE RIDGE MINES (ROSSITER MINES)
[ A ]
Abraham, Aathan
(Miner, ca.1905, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., Pa, married, wife Golda Abraham.)
Adams, Andrew
(Slavonian Miner, Coal Loader ca.1915, Canoe Ridge No. 3 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 41, married, 1 child.);
(Killed. Killed by fall of slate at the face of a pillar while shoveling coal, in the Canoe Ridge No. 3 Mine, November 15, 1915.)
Adams, John B.
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Adams, William
(Miner, ca.1902, ca.1903, ca.1905, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Maggie [Mary] Adams.)
Adorsak, Steve
(Miner, First Aid Man ca.1937, Rossiter No. 3 Mine, Indiana Co., PA.)
Allessi, A.
(Miner, Motorman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Allexovich, Alex
(Miner, ca.1902, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Mary Allexovich.)
Allshouse, J. R.
(Miner, Conveyor Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Almonda, John
(Miner, ca.1902, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Susie Almonda.)
Alrexook, Mik
(Miner, ca.1904, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Mary Alexook.)
Altamore, Dominic
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Altimore, Pete
(Miner, Conveyor Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Ambrogio, Berini
(Miner, ca.1920, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 33, 1 child.)
Andersak, Steve J.
(Miner, Conveyor Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Anderson, A. R.
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(Son of Jacob Anderson.)
Anderson, Charley
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Anderson, Elmer
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(Son of Jacob Anderson.)
Anderson, George
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Anderson Gust B.
(Miner, ca.1905, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Josephine Anderson.)
Anderson, Hildean
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Anderson, Jacob
(Miner, ca.1917, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 53, married, wife Hilda Anderson, age 54, 4 children.);
(Family moved to Detroit, MI to work in the auto plants, around the time of the ca.1927 miners strike. Jacob & Hilda both died in Detroit and are buried at Detroit, MI.)
Anderson, John
(Miner, ca.1904, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Ole Anderson.)
Anderson, Richard "Dick"
(Miner, Motorman ca.1925, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Anderson, Robert
(Miner, ca.1903, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Jenie Anderson.)
Anderson, Rudolph
(Miner, Foreman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)  
Andri, Joe
(Miner, ca.1902, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Julie Andri.)
Andziulewicz, Mathew
(Polish Miner, ca.1912, ca.1914, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married ca.1912, wife, Eleanore Januszkiewicz Andziulewicz [Leanora Ganoskewicz Andziulewicz;  Leanora Janaskewicz Andziulewicz], children.);
(Killed.  Mathew Andziulewicz, worked for the Rossiter Mining Company and was killed in a Rossiter Mine on July 23, 1914. The Andziulewicz children were taken to the Holy Family Institute, Pittsburgh, PA when the mother passed away during childbirth ca.1912.);
(In ca.1908 they belonged to the St. Franncis of Assisi Church in Rossiter, PA.)
Andzullwic, Willm.
(See: Andullwicz, William.)
Andzullwicz, William
(Miner, ca.1918, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 38, married, wife Madaline Andzullwicz, age 38, 6 children.);
(See also: Andzullwic, Willm.)
Antolik, Paul
(Miner, ca.1920, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 31, 3 children.)
Antonuccio, Antonio
(Italian Miner Boy, Pick Miner ca.1908, Canoe Ridge No. 3 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 18, single.);
(Injured. Body bruised and cut by a mine car on a side track, in the Canoe Ridge No. 3 Mine, August 7, 1908.)
Arbel, Mr.
(Miner, ca.1917, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married.)
Arbell, Mr.
(Miner, ca.1911, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married.)
Arble, Frank
(American Miner, ca.1908, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Maggie McGee Arble.)
Arico, Giuseppe
(Miner, ca.1919, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 35, married, wife Antonnnia Arico, age 27, 5 children.)
Arico, Nick
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married);
(Nick Arico was president of the UMW of A Local, Rossiter, PA.)
Armstrong, Joseph
(General Construction Foreman, ca.1900, for building the coal company houses in Rossiter, Indiana Co., PA.)
Asmonda, John
(Miner, ca.1904, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Susie Asmonda.)
Asmonda, John
(Slavonian Miner, Pick Miner ca.1918, Rossiter No. 3 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 21, married.);
(Injured. Leg broken by a fall of roof at the face of a pillar while digging coal, in the Rossiter No. 3 Mine, January 23, 1918.)
Augustyn, Wallace
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(See also: Augustyn, Wladyslaw;  could be the same man.)
Augustyn, Wladyslaw
(Polish Miner, Pick Miner ca.1914, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 41, married, wife Agnes Ausgutyn, age 42, 7 children.);
(See also: Augustyn, Wallace;  could be the same man.)
Augutry, Bogomy
(Polish Miner, Scraper ca.1909, Canoe Ridge No. 4 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 40, married, 6 children.);
(Killed. Killed by a mine car. Outside of the Canoe Ridge No. 4 Mine, November 19, 1909.)
[ B ]
Bainey, T. R.
(Miner, ca.1904, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Eva M. Bainey.)
Barenchik, Andy
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Barr, Chasa.
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Barrett, Gurney
(Miner, Conveyor Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Bartlebaugh, Denver
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Basel, Frank
(Miner, ca.1906, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 29, married, wife Bertha Hawk Basel, age 27, 1 child.)
Basile, Floyd
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Basile, Frank
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Basile, Joe N.
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Baun, Earl
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Baun, Loyal
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Baun, Murray
(Miner, Foreman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Beam, W. C.
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(This could possibly by the same man as Beam, Woodrow C. listed below.)
Beam, Woodrow C.
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(This could possibly be the same man as Beam, W. C. listed above.)
Beck, Guy
(Miner, Motorman & Brakeman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Becosky, Stanley
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Bedriski, Walter
(Miner, ca.1914, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 34, married, wife Nova Bedriski, age 29, 2 children.);
(See also: Bedritski, Walter.)
Bedritski, Walter
(See: Bedriski, Walter.)
Beecham, William
(American Miner Boy, Coupler ca.1917, Canoe Ridge No. 1 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 16, single.);
(Injured.  Fingers crushed between mine cars.  Outside the Canoe Ridge No. 1 Mine, June 7, 1917.)
Bell, Ralph
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Bendlock, Michael A.
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Benson, John
(Miner, ca.1901, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married.)
Berhard, H.
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Bernardo, Fiore
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Bernardo, Frank
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Bernardo, Herman
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Bernardo, Pasquale
(Miner, ca.1919, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 37, married, wife Gladys Bernardo, age 32, 4 children.)
Bernasconi, Clemens
(Italian Miner, Machine Miner ca.1918, Rossiter No. 4 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 46, married.);
(Injured. Leg broken by a fall of coal while shoveling at the face of a room, in the Rossiter No. 4 Mine, January 15, 1918.)
Beverina, Edwardo
(Miner, ca.1919, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 42, married, wife Annetta Beverina, 1 child.)
Bicho, John
(Miner, Road Cleaner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Bicho, Mikec.
(Miner, Conveyor Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Bishop, Adam
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Bishop, Doyle
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Bland, Jim
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(Killed.  Killed in a mining accident, in the Rossiter Mines.)
Bland, John
(American Miner, Runner ca.1915, Canoe Ridge No. 3 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 26, married, 1 child.);
(Killed. Killed by mine cars on the rock dump while trying to make a flying switch. Outside of the Canoe Ridge No. 3 Mine, April 6, 1915.  Interred at Union Church, Rossiter, PA.)
Blyer, Joe
(Mine, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Bone, Steve
(Miner, Trackman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Bonica, Rico
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Bottenhorn, Carol
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Bowers, Harry
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Bowers, John B.
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Bowers, Carid.
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Bowers, Harry
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Bowers, Sam
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Bowers, William
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Bozsynak, Joe
(Miner, Rock Man, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Bragazzi, Robert
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Braughler, Jack
(Miner, Foreman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Breiter, Mr.
(Miner, ca.1912, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married.)
Breth, H. B.
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Brevite, Antonio
(Italian Miner, Pick Miner ca.1917, Canoe Ridge No.1 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 23, single.);
(Injured.  Collar bone fractured by mine cars in a room neck, in the Canoe Ridge No. 1 Mine, Aug. 4, 1917.)
Brickell, W. J.
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Brink, Edward
(Miner, Conveyor Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Brink, Jim
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Brink, John
(Miner, Conveyor Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Broadmeadow, W. J.
(Superintendent, ca.1901, ca.1903, ca.1904, ca.1905, ca.1906, of the Canoe Ridge No 1, No. 3, &  No. 4 Mines, Indiana Co., PA, for Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corp., Clearfield, PA.)
Brosius, Carl
(Miner, Conveyor Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Bukash, Sylvester
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Burns, John
(Miner, ca.1902, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 62.);
(Died Dec. 3, 1902.) 
Burns, Joseph
(Irish Miner, Motorman ca.1912, Canoe Ridge No. 3 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 21, single.);
(Injured. Arm broken and cut by being caught between two locomotives while coupling on the main heading, in the Canoe Ridge No. 3 Mine, November 23, 1912.)
Burns, Patrick P.
(Miner, ca.1909, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Margaret Farrell Burns.)
Busigar, John
(Miner, ca.1920, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Butch, Joe
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Bykowski, Henry
(Miner, Conveyor Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Bykowskie, Adolph
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
[ C ]
Calabrese, Samuel
(Italian Miner, ca.1908, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Mary Calabrese.)
Calahan, Dennis
(Miner, ca.1902, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Ellen Calahan.)
Calderone, Mr.
(Italian Miner, ca.1911-1917 ?, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Maria Catanese Calderone, 3 children.);
(Killed. Fatally injured by a fall of slate, in the Rossiter Mines, sometime between 1911 and 1917.)
Caligure, Sylvester
(Miner, Pick Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Callaghan, Dennis J.
(Miner, ca.1905, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(Passed his examination for Mine Foreman, Second Grade ca.1905.  Received his Certificate ca.1905.)
Callahan, Pat
(Miner, ca.1905, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Agnes Callahan.)
Caloger, Tony
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Calso, Tony
(Italian Miner, ca.1909, Canoe Ridge No. 4 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 46, married.);
(Injured. Leg and arm broken by a fall of coal from a heading stump, in the Canoe Ridge No. 4 Mine, October 4, 1909.)
Campbell, Jim
(Miner, Motorman & Brakman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Campbell, Johnt.
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Caperosso, Andrew
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Capirossi, Angelo
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Carcella, Lewis, Jr.
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Carcella, Joe
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Carcella, Mike
(Miner, Motorman & Brakeman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Caretli, Mr.
(Miner, ca.1918, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Anglina Caretli.)
Carlson, Joseph
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Carlson, Mr.
(Miner, ca.1914, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Carter, Robert
(Miner, ca.1905, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Susie Carter.)
Catalano, Albert
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Catalano, Archangelo "Arch"
(Miner, ca.1923, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Carmella Pitzarell Carmella.)
Catalano, Archangelo, Jr. "Arch Jr."
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Catalano, August
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Catalano, Eugene
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Catalano, Francis
(Miner, Machinbe Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Catalano, James
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Catanese, Peter, Jr.
(Italian Miner Boy, Pick Miner ca.1917, Canoe Ridge No. 1 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 16, single.);
(Injured.  Leg fractured by a fall of coal in a heading, in the Canoe Ridge No. 1 Mine, Nov. 28, 1917.)
Cebrat, Albert
(Miner, ca.1923, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married.);
(Killed.  Killed in a mining accident, in the Rossiter Mines, ca.1923.)
Cerrella, Lonie
(Miner, ca.1904, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Cessie Cerrella.)
Chapman, Earl
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Charcolla, Mike
(Miner, Trackman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Charles, William
(Miner, ca.1905, ca.1908, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA. married, wife Ida Charles.)
Charleton, Jack
(Miner, Foreman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Charlton, John, Jr.
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Charlton, John, Sr.
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Chenoga, Frank, Jr.
(Miner, Mine Clerk, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(Miner, ca.1937, Rossiter No. 3 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 24.);
(Killed.  Frank had been connecting an electric drill to a power line and they presumed he had been shocked, in the Rossiter No. 3 Mine, Nov. 16, 1937.  [from the "Indiana Progress," Indiana, PA, Nov. 17, 1937.].)
(See also: Chinoga, Frank, Jr.)
Chenoga, Frank, Sr.
(Miner, Mine Foreman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(See also: Chinoga, Frank, Sr.)
Chenoga, Louis
(Miner, ca.1937, Rossiter No. 3 Mine, Indiana Co., PA.);
(See also: Chinoga, Louis.)
Cherry, Michael
(Miner, ca.1904, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Julia Cherry.)
Chessey, Jno. T.
(Miner, ca.1904, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Julia Chessy.)
Cheste, Julius
(Polish Miner, ca.1904, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 45.);
(Killed.  Accidently shot, Nov. 4, 190.  Interred at the Anita Cemetery.);
(See also: Chester, Julias.)
Chester, Julias
(Miner, ca.1902, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Paulena Chester.);
(See also: Cheste, Julius.)
Chinoga, Frank, Jr.
(See: Chenoga, Frank, Jr.)
Chinoga, Frank, Sr.
(See: Chenoga, Frank, Sr.)
Chinoga, Louis
(See: Chiengo, Louis.)
Christofo, Carmilla
(Italian Miner, Coal Loader ca.1915, Canoe Ridge No. 1 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 28, married.);
(Injured. Toes cut and bruised by mine cars on the main heading, in the Canoe Ridge No. 1 Mine, September 15, 1915.)
Cipolla, Joe
(Miner, Conveyor Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Clemson, Paul
(American Miner, Company Man ca.1915, Canoe Ridge No. 1 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 24, married.);
(Injured. Back and hips sprained by a trip of empty mine cars on the main sidetrack, in the Canoe Ridge No. 1 Mine, March 12, 1915.)
Cochran, W. B.
(Miner, Conveyor Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Conforti, Eugenio
(Miner, ca.1919, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 30, 3 children.)
Connor, J. J.
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Cookie, Sam
(Miner, ca.1905, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Lizzie Cookie.)
Copas, Paul
(Miner, ca.1904, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Mary Copas.)
Corbit, Wm.
(Miner, ca.1902, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Mary Corbitt.)
Cornfield, Harry
(American Miner, Machine Miner ca.1916, Canoe Ridge No. 4 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 24, married.);
(Injured. Bone in foot fractured by a fall of coal at the face of a room, in the Canoe Ridge No. 4 Mine, Nov. 27, 1916.)
Costrini, Liborio
(See: Csstrini, Liborio.)
Covatch, Charles
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Covatch, Leo
(Employee, Miner, Supply Clerk, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Covatch, Lot
(Miner, Road Cleaner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Cowser, James
(Miner, ca.1905, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Elizabeth Cower.)
Craft, John
(American Miner, Trackman ca.1913, ca.1917, Canoe Ridge No. 3 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 46, married.);
(Injured.  Finger cut off by a mine rail on an entry, in the Canoe Ridge No. 3 Mine, April 9, 1917.)
Craft, Ray
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Craig, William
(Miner, ca.1904, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Susan Craig.);
(Lived at company House No. 46, Bigler Ave., Rossiter, PA, ca.1904.)
Crawford, Walter
(Miner, Motorman & Brakeman, ca.1927, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(Killed.  Killed in a mining accident, in the Rossiter Mines, May 10, 1927.)
Csstrini, Liborio
(Miner, ca.1919, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 40, married, wife Lucia Csstrini, age 28, 4 children.);
(See also: Liborio Costrini, Liborio.)
Cummings, Mr.
(Miner, Machine Boss, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Cymont, Alex.
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
[ D ]
Dalesky, John "Jack"
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married.);
(John Dalesky was a disabled vet of World War I, he lived in Smyerstown, PA.  Moved to Colorado in the late 1950's.)
Dalesky, Joe
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Daugherty, Din
(Miner, Foreman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Davis, Gomer
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Davison, Charles
(Miner, Conveyor Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Davison, J. S.
(Miner, ca.1899, Rossiter Mines, Rossiter, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Sarah A. Davison.);
(Also had lived in Moresdale, Clearfield Co., PA.);
(This could be the same man as John S. Davison, listed below.)
Davison, John S.
(Miner, ca.1903, Rossiter Mines, Rossiter, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Sarah Davison.);
(This could be the same man as J.S. Daviso, listed above.)
Dawson, J. S.
(Miner, ca.1902, Rossiter Mines, Rossiter, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Sarah Dawson.)
De Bernardi, Severino
(Miner, ca.1921, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 47, 3 children.)
De Berti, Antonio
(Miner, ca.1913, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 26, married, wife Dusolina De Barti, age 20, 2 children.)
De Berti, Giuseppe
(See: De Berti, Giuseppe.)
De Berti, Pietro
(Miner, ca.1913, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 45, married, wife Tranquilla De Berti, age 36, 3 children.)
De Vitto, Ginko
(Miner, ca.1915, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 31, married, wife Antionetta De Vitto, age 34, 1 child.);
(See also: Ginlio Del Vitto, Ginlio.)
Dean, James
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Del Grande, John
(Miner, ca.1911, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 31, married, wife Mary Del Grande, age 25, 3 children.)
Del Signore, Giuseppe
(Miner, ca.1917, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 34, married, wife Rose Del Signore, age 26, 3 children.)
Del Vito, Paolo
(Miner, ca.1894, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 49, married, wife Mary Del Vito, age 60, 2 children.);
(See also: Delvito, Paolo.)
Del Vitto, Charley
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Del Vitto, Ginlio
(See: De Vitto, Ginko.)
Delvito, Paolo
(See: Del Vito, Paolo.)
Demko, Mihiel "Majk"
(Miner, ca.1914, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 38, married, wife Mary Demko, age 35, 9 children.)
Deperrio, Tony
(Miner, Repairman Helper, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Depp, William
(Miner, ca.1900, Rossiter Mines, Rossiter, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Susie Depp.)
Deptuck, Mike
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Di Berti, Giuseppe
(Miner, ca.1920, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 44, 3 children.);
(See also: De Berti, Giuseppe.)
Di Paola, Giuseppe
(See: Di Paolo, Giuseppe.)
Di Paolo, Giuseppe
(Miner, ca.1920, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 41, 5 children.);
(See also: Di Paola, Giuseppe.)
Di Salvatore, Orazio
(Miner, ca.1919, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 38, 6 Children.)
Diaddairo, John
(See: Diaddario, John.)
Diaddario, John
(Miner, ca.1919, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 42, married, wife Teresa Diaddario, age 42, 7 children.);
(See also: Diaddairo, John.)
Dien, N. L.
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Dill, Joe
(Miner, Machine Repairman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(Killed.  Killed in a mining accident, in the Rossiter Mines.)
Divens, Firm
(Miner, Conveyor Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Divens, James P.
(Miner, Transmission Lineman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Divins, Mr.
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Dixon, R. H.
(Miner, ca.1906, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(Passed his examination for Mine Foreman, Second Grade, ca.1906.  Certificate issued ca.1906.)
Dolfi, Sam
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Doney, Calvin
(Miner, Foreman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Doney, J. C.
(Miner, ca.1899, ca.1903, Rossiter Mines, Rossiter, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Caroline Doney.)
Donlavage, A
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Doty, Laird
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Douthitt, Lecnoin
(Miner, Trackman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Droney, Dennis
(Miner, ca.1903, Rossiter Mines, Rossiter, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Julie Droney.)
Dubosz, Stanislove
(Miner, ca.1905, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Mary Dubosz.)
Duke, John
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Dunlap, Clyde
(American Miner Boy, Scraper ca.1906, Canoe Ridge Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 18, single.);
(Injured. Foot injured by a fall of slate, in the Canoe Ridge Mine, Feb. 8, 1906.  Accident unavoidable.)
Dunmire, Carlton
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Dunmire, C. E.
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Dutkieviecs, Louie
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
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Eagano, Santo
(Miner, ca.1909, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 42, married, wife Gustina Eagano, age 37.);
(See also: Eagono, Santo.)
Eagono, Santo
(See: Eagano, Santo.)
Eanni, Vencenzo
(Miner, ca.1910, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 33, married, wife Mary Eanni, age 20, 1 child.)
Etherson, Thomas
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
[ F ]
Faipler, Alfred
(Miner, Conveypr Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Fairbanks, W. L.
(Miner, ca.1901, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Laura Fairbanks.)
Fama, Peter
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(This could also be the same man as Fama, Pietro listed below.);
(See also: Fama, Pietro.)
Fama, Pietro
(Miner, ca.1917, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 37, 4 children.);
(This could also be the same man as Fama, Peter listed above.);
(See also: Fama, Peter.)
Fama, Tony
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Fantuzza, Mr.
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Fantuzza, Joe
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Femia, Peter
(See: Fama, Pietro.)
Ferosky, Joe
(Miner, ca.1905, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Frances Ferosky.)
Ferrara, Angelo
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Ferraro, Joseph
(French Miner, Machine Scraper ca.1917, Canoe Ridge No. 1 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 21, single.);
(Injured.  Foot bruised by a mining machine in a room, in the Canoe Ridge No. 1 Mine, April 4, 1917.)
Ferrier, Clair
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Ferrier, John
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Ferrier, John
(Miner, ca.1948, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(He was a member of the Rossiter No. 2 First Aid Team, ca.1948.  [from the "Indiana Evening Gazette," Indiana, PA, Aug. 7, 1948.].)
Fetterman, Boyd
(Miner, Conveyor Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Fetterman, Thomas
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Fetterman, Reese
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Filler, Burt
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(Killed.  Killed in a mining accident, in the Rossiter Mines.)
Filler, Calvin S.
(Miner, ca.1902, ca.1904, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Mary Filler.);
(American Miner, Pumpman ca.1915, Canoe Ridge No. 1 Mine, Rossiter, Indiana Co., PA, Age 34, married.);
(Injured. Head cut, shoulder and legs bruised by a runaway trip of loaded mine cars on the haulage way, in the Canoe Ridge No. 1 Mine, June 25, 1915.);
(Killed.  Killed in a mining accident, in the Rossiter Mines.)
Filler, Grant
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Filler, Leroy
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Filler, Leroy
(Miner, ca.1948, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(He was a member of the Rossiter No. 1 First Aid Team, ca.1948.  [from the "Indiana Evening Gazette," Indiana, PA, Aug. 7, 1948.].)
Filler, Wm. L.
(Miner, ca.1902, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co. PA, married, wife L. B. Filler.)
Finamore, Nick
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(Killed.  Killed in a mining accident, in the Rossiter Mines.)
Flangan, Hugh
(Miner, ca.1902, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Mary Flangan.)
Flannagan, Owen
(Miner, ca.1904, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Margaret Flannagan.)
Flick, L. O.
(Miner, Pick Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Forsythe, Joseph
(Miner, ca.1905, Rossiter Mines, Rossiter, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Jeddie Forsythe.)
France, Charles
(Miner, ca.1907 Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(Secretary of the UMW of A Local Union at Rossiter, PA ca.1907.)
France, Charley
(Miner, ca.1904, Rossiter Mines, Rossiter, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Emma France.)
France, Henry
(Miner, ca.1904, Rossiter Mines, Rossiter, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Nora I. France.)
Frantz, Harry
(Miner, ca.1906, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(Passed his examination for Mine Foreman, Second Grade ca.1906.  Certificate issued ca.1906.);
(Miner, Foreman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Frantz, Henry
(Miner, ca.1906, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(Passed his examination for Mine Foreman, Second Grade ca.1906.  Certificate issued ca.1906.);
(Superintendent, ca.1917, of the Canoe Ridge No. 1, 3, & 4 Mines, Indiana Co., PA, for Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corp.)
Frantz, Jacob
(German Miner, Pumpman ca.1915, Canoe Ridge No. 1 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 32, single.);
(Injured. Leg broken by being caught between a derailed mine car and a prop pile. Outside of the Canoe Ridge No. 1 Mine, January 11, 1915.);
(Passed his examination for Mine Foreman, Second Grade. Certificate issued ca.1917.);
(Jacob Frantz also worked in the Frances Mine, Indiana Co., PA.)
Fraskoske, Low
(Miner, ca.1902, Rossiter Mines, Rossiter, Idiaa Co.,  PA, married, wife Lown Fraskiske.)
Frendberg, Lawrence
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Frew, James
(Miner, Pick Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Frew, James M.
(Miner, Pick Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Frew, John
(Miner, ca.1902, Rossiter Mines, Rossiter, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Ahiveda Frew.)
Frew, William
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(Killed.  Killed in a mining accident, in the Rossiter Mines.)
Frunchak, Frank
(Polish Miner, Machine Runner ca.1918, Rossiter No. 3 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 30, married.);
(Injured. Leg fractured, in the Rossiter No. 3 Mine, October 2, 1918. He was running his machine along the heading, his foot slipped and he fell in front of the machine, which struck him.)
[ G ]
Gajivski, Conatantz
(Miner, ca.1905, Rossiter Mines, Rossiter, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Stany Gajivski.)
Gamber, Louis
(Miner, Coal Inspector, Foreman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Garber, John
(Miner, Road Cleaner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Garber, Joseph
(Miner, ca.1948, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(He was a member of the Rossiter No. 1 First Aid Team, ca.1948.  [from the "Indiana Evening Gazette," Indiana, PA, Aug. 7, 1948.].)
Garber, Mike
(Miner, Road Cleaner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Gargonio, Natalia
(Italian Miner, Pick Miner ca.1917, Canoe Ridge No. 3 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 42, married.);
(Injured.  Leg fractured by a fall of roof on an entry while removing pillars, in the Canoe Ridge No. 3 Mine, Feb. 15, 1917.)
Gaston, M.C.
(American Miner, ca.1914, Canoe Ridge No. 4 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 26, married.);
(Injured. Cheek bone broken and arm and back bruised by a fall of slate at the face of a pillar while loading coal, in the Canoe Ridge No. 4 Mine, June 24, 1914.)
Gaston, Pride
(Miner, ca.1917, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, single.);
(Lived on Rossiter Road, PA.);
(born in Canal Twp., PA, Dec. 23, 1895
Gaydos, Dan
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Gealsha, Stanley J.
(Miner, Conveyor Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Gealsha, Stanley
(Miner, ca.1948, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(He was a member of the Rossiter No. 1 First Aid Team, ca.1948.  [from the "Indiana Evening Gazette," Indiana, PA, Aug. 7, 1948.].)
Gearhart, C. T.
(Minewr, ca.1905, Rossiter Mines, Rossiter, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Nora Gearhart.)
Gearhart, Dareda
(Miner, ca.1899, Rossiter Mines, Rossiter, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Ellis Gearhart.)
Geist, Clyde A.
(Miner, Conveyor Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Geist, Homer
(Miner, Conveyor Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
George, John
(Miner, ca.1904, Rossiter Mines, Rossiter, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Lettie George.)
Geraskey, Alexander
(Miner, ca.1904, Rossiter No. 2 Mine, Rossiter, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Mary Geraskey.);
(See also: Geroskey, Alex.)
Geroskey, Alex
(Miner, ca.1904, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Mary Geroskey.);
(See also: Geraskey, Alexander.)
Gilpatrick, Harry
(Miner, ca.1903, Rossiter Mines, Rossiter, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Belle Gilpatrick.)
Gilpatrick, Murry
(Miner, Blacksmith ca,1905, Rossiter Mines, Rossiter, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Fleranc Gilpatrick.)
Giroskey, Steve
(Miner, Conveyor Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Girosky, George
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Girovsky, Michael
(Hungarian Miner, ca.1920, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, from Szanswo, Zemplem, Hungary, married, wife Susanna Medwed Girovsky, from Palocsd, Saros Co., Hungary.)
Godo, Mike
(Miner, Conveyor Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Grago, Samuel
(Italian Miner, ca.1901, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 52, married.);
(Died of heart trouble, April 10, 1901.  Interred at Clayville Cemetery.)
Graham, Robert
(Miner, ca.1905, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Jane Graham.)
Gresock, Pete
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Griffith, Daniel A.
(Miner, ca.1921, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Bertha Bonner Griffith.)
Grove, David
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Grove, Robert
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Guidash, Dan
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Guidash, Frank
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Guidash, George
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
[ H ]
Haggerty, Thomas
(Miner, ca.1917, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(Finacial Secy. ca.1917, U.M. W. of A. Local No. 1736, Rossiter, PA.)
Halady, Peter
(Polish Miner, Machine Miner ca.1918, Rossiter No. 1 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 56, married, 1 child.);
(Killed. Instantly killed by a fall of slate in pillar workings while cleaning the track at the working face of a room pillar, in the Rossiter No. 1 Mine, June 21, 1918.)
Hall, Arthur
(English Miner Boy, Coal Loader ca.1906, Canoe Ridge No. 4 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 19, single.);
(Injured. Hand injured in coupling mine cars on a heading, in the Canoe Ridge No. 4 Mine, Feb. 19, 1906. Accident unavoidable.)
Handley, Larry
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(Killed.  Killed in a mining accident, in the Rossiter Mines.)
Hanley, Larey
(Irish Miner, Rockman ca.1915, Canoe Ridge No. 1 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 58, Married.);
(Killed. Killed by a fall of slate near the face of a heading while taking down the roof, in the Canoe Ridge No. 1 Mine, November 12, 1915.)
Harchar, John
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Harper, George
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Harper, William
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Harris, T.
(Miner, ca.1903, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Hanah Harris.)
Harvey, Leroy
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Hawk, Arthur W.
(Miner, Repairman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Hawk, Charles Floyd
(Miner, ca.1824, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Edna C. Kline Hawk.);
(Killed.  Killed in a mining accident, in the Rossiter Mines.  Died from an injury from a premature dynamite explosion.);
(b. April, 1888 - d. Nov. 25, 1924.);
(Interred Rossiter, Canoe Twp., Indiana Co., PA.)
Hawk, Hebert
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Hawk, Port
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Hawk, Raymond
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Hewitt, Al
(Miner, Machine Repairman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Hewitt, Alton
(Miner, ca.1948, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(He was a member of the Rossiter No. 1 First Aid Team, ca.1948.  [from the "Indiana Evening Gazette," Indiana, PA, Aug. 7, 1948.].)
Hinterleitner, H. J.
(General Superintendent, ca.1916, Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corp., Canoe Ridge Nos 1, 2, & 3 Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(General Superintendent, ca.1917, Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corp., Canoe Ridge Nos 1, 3, & 4 Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Hodgson, Cline
(Miner, ca.1948, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(He was a member of the Rossiter No. 1 First Aid Team, ca.1948.  [from the "Indiana Evening Gazette," Indiana, PA, Aug. 7, 1948.].)
Hodgson, Irvin, Jr.
(Miner, ca.1948, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(He was a member of the Rossiter No. 1 First Aid Team, ca.1948.  [from the "Indiana Evening Gazette," Indiana, PA, Aug. 7, 1948.].)
Hodgson, Irvin S.
(Miner, Coal Inspector, Foreman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Hodgson, Ralph
(Miner, Motorman & Brakeman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Hodgson, William
(Miner, Mine Foreman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(See also: Hodson, William.)
Hodson, William
(See: Hodgson, William.)
Holtz, Mr.
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Houck, James
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Howe, William
(English Miner, Employee ca.1903, Canoe Ridge No. 1 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 30 or 32, married, 3 children.);
(Killed.  Instantly killed by a runaway mule.  He was taking a trip of empty mine cars into the mine with a motor.  A mule that had run away from the driver in one of the headings was running up the slope, and on meeting the motor trip the mule jumped on top of the motorman, his feet striking Howe on the head, killed him instantly,  in the Canoe Ridge No. 1 Mine, Dec. 29 or 30, 1903.);
(Interred at Patton, PA.)
Hulin, Steve
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines.)
Humble, Clar A.
(Miner, Conveyor Miner, Rossiter Mines.)
Hunter, Samuel
(Miner, ca.1907,  Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(President of the UMW of A Local Union at Rossiter Mines ca.1907.)
Hutchinson, John R.
(Miner, Mine Foreman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Hutchinson, John
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Hutchinson, Thomas J.
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Hutchinson, William
(Miner, Foreman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
[ I ]
Ianni, Luigi
(Miner, ca.1920, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 42, married, wife Maria Ianni, age 36, 7 children.)
[ J ]
Jackson, Robert
(English Miner, Pick Miner ca.1917, Canoe Ridge No. 3 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 63, married.);
(Killed.  Fatally injured by a fall of roof while removing a pillar, in the Canoe Ridge No. 3 Mine, May 28, 1917.)
James. Harry E.
(American Miner, Mine Foreman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
James, John
(American Miner Boy, Pick Miner, ca.1904, Canoe Ridge No. 1 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 15, single.);
(Injured.  Leg fractured, slipped off the bumpers of a mine car, in the Canoe Ridge No. 1 Mine, Sept. 16, 1904.)
James, W. H.
(American Miner Boy, Machine Miner ca.1918, Rossiter No. 1 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 19, single.);
(Injured. Small bone in foot broken when a wheel of a machine on which he was riding ran over his foot, in the Rossiter No. 1 Mine, October 17, 1918.)
Janary, John
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Janary, Julio
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Janary, Lewis
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Janary, Mike
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Janary, Sam
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Janaskewicz, Ignatius
(Miner, ca.1908, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Johnson, Lewis
(Miner, ca.1905, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(Passed his examination fo Mine Foreman, Second Grade ca.1905.  Received his Certificate ca.1905.)
Johnston, John
(Finnish Miner, ca.1904, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 45, married.);
(Died of Jandice, Nov. 16, 1904.  Interred at Circle Hill Cemetery.)
Jones, Thomas
(English Miner, ca.1908, Canoe Ridge No. 4 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 58, married, 6 children.);
(Killed. Fatally injured by fall of coal in the Canoe Ridge No. 4 Mine, February 19, 1908. He was fixing his mine track when, without any warning, a large piece of bone coal fell out of a pot. Died February 27, 1908.)
Jones, W.
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(Killed.  Killed in a mining accident, in the Rossiter Mines.)
Jones, W. H.
(Miner, Mine Foreman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Jones, W. R.
(Miner, Mine Foreman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
[ K ]
Kalus, Joe
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Kania, Brunov
(Miner, Conveyor Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Kanouff, William A.
(Miner, Conveyor Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Kelly, Owen
(Irish Miner, Laborer ca.1905, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 61, married.);
(d. Aoril 22, 1905.  Interred at Dubois Cemetery.)
Kelly, Ralph
(Miner, Trackman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Kendra, Albert J.
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Kendra, Martin
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Kiwaldo, Kasimir
(See: Kiwalla, Charles.)
Kiwalla, Charles
(Miner, ca.1921, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 48, married, wife Katarzyna Kiwalla, 7 children.);
(See also: Kiwaldo, Kasimir.)
Klein, George
(Miner, ca.1948, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(He was a member of the Rossiter No. 2 First Aid Team, ca.1948.  [from the "Indiana Evening Gazette," Indiana, PA, Aug. 7, 1948.].)
Klein, Joseph, Jr.
(Miner, ca.1948, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(He was a member of the Rossiter No. 2 First Aid Team, ca.1948.  [from the "Indiana Evening Gazette," Indiana, PA, Aug. 7, 1948.].)
Klein, Joseph M.
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Klimak, Steve
(Slavonian Miner, Scraper ca.1911, Canoe Ridge No. 3 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 32, married.);
(Injured. Leg broken by tripping on a rail and falling into an empty mine car on a lower track. Outside of the Canoe Ridge No. 3 Mine, November 18, 1911.)
Klimek, John Paul
(American Miner Boy, ca.1925, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(b. ca.1910, in Rossiter, PA. Son of Peter Klimek.);
(One of the few stories John Paul told about working in the mine is that he was working and the lights went out. The only way my Dad could get out was to crawl on the ground holding on to the track. He didn't get home until after 9 p.m.)
Klimek, Piotr "Peter"
(Polish Miner, ca.1902, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, 5 children.);
(Immigrated to the United State ca.1902 from Poland.);
(Moved to Carnegie, PA.  Remarried ca.1925.)
Kline, Joe
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Kollar, Steve
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Komys, Wincent
(See: Rania, Wuncenty.)
Kooyon, Andrew
(Polish Miner, Machine Runner ca.1913, Canoe Ridge No. 3 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 28, married.);
(Injured. Finger cut off. Caught in a broken sheave wheel of a mining machine while cutting at the face of a room, in the Canoe Ridge No. 3 Mine, September 25, 1913.)
Kopas, Frank
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Kopas, George
(Miner, Tunnel Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Kopas, John
(Miner, ca.1921, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 49, married, wife Lizzie Kopas, age 46, 4 children.);
(See also: Kopax, John.)
Kopas, John
(Miner, Conveyor Miner, ca.1939, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Mary Miller Kopas.)
Kopax, John
(See: Kopas, John.)
Kordek, Joe
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Kovach, Steve
(See: Kowach, Stever.)
Kowach, Stever
(Miner, ca.1911, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 48, married, wife Annie Kowach, age 37, 6 children.);
(See also: Kovach, Steve.)
Kowalchick, Steve
(Miner, Conveyor Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Kowalchick, Tony
(Miner, Conveyor Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Kraynak, Andy
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Kraynak, Joseph W.
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Kraynak, M.
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Kring, Ralph
(Miner, Motorman & Brakeman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Krolick, L.
(Miner, Repairman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Krolick, Mike
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Kromer, Chris
(Miner, Rock Man, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Krutz, Michael, Sr.
(Miner, Motorman & Brakeman ca.1939, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(See also: Kurtz, Michael, Sr.)
Kubicki, Wilhelm
(Miner, ca.1924, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 35, 4 children.)
Kubinsky, Felix
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Kurtz, Michael, Sr.
(See: Krutz, Michael, Sr.)
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Lacsny, Michael
(Miner, ca.1915, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 34, married, wife Annie Lacsny, 4 children.)
Laing, James
(Miner, ca 1906, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(Passed his examination for Mine Foreman, Second Grade ca.1906.  Ceritificate issued ca.1906.)
Lambert, Joe
(Miner, Clerk, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Lang, John
(Miner, Foreman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Latta, Lloyd
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Lavalle, Salvatore
(Miner, ca.1919, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 40, married, wife Nicolina Lavalle, age 31, 7 children.)
Lellock, Joe
(Miner, Brattice Man, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Lellock, Michael
(Miner, Pick Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Lettie, Roy
(Miner, Repairman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Lewis, C.
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Lewis, Charles
(American Miner, Employee ca.1907, Canoe Ridge No. 3 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 20, single.);
(Injured. Shoulder dislocated, fell under loaded mine cars. Outside of the Canoe Ridge No. 3 Mine, May 3, 1907.)
Lisek, Frank
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Lombardo, Carmel
(Italian Miner Boy, Loader ca.1907, Canoe Ridge No. 4 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 15, single.);
(Injured. Leg broken by a fall of coal at the face of a room, in the Canoe Ridge No. 4 Mine, December 26, 1907.)
Lovelle, Tony
(Italian Miner, Coal Loader ca.1914, Canoe Ridge No. 4 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 24, single.);
(Killed. Fatally injured in a collision of empty mine cars (in which he was riding) and a mine motor on the train road. Outside of the Canoe Ridge No. 4 Mine, August 3, 1914.)
Lucas, Roy
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Lyons, Jas
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
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Mack, John
(Miner, Track Man, ca.1928, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, 5 children.)
Malinky, John
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Malony, James
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Maloney, John
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Maloney, Martin
(Miner, ca.1913, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(Passed his examination for Mine Foreman, First Grade, ca.1913. Received his certificate ca.1913.)
Maloney, Michael "Mike"
(Irish Miner, Pick Miner ca.1907, Canoe Ridge No. 3 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 42, married, wife Anna Flynn Maloney, 7 children.);
(Killed. With David Pittsley, in Canoe Ridge No. 3 Mine, May 6, 1907. Were working with some other men making a new turnout, and Maloney went under the slate to knock out a prop when a large body of bone coal and slate fell from a slip burying him under it. Pittsley was standing nearby and without any thought of danger to himself, but with a desire to rescue Maloney, he went in and tried to lift the bone and slate off Maloney, when a second fall took place and Pittsely was also killed. The slip in the floor could not be noticed.);
(Killed.  Killed in a mining accident, in the Canoe Ridge Mines, May 9, 1907.  The first fatal accident in the history of the Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corporation's mines in Rossiter, occurred last night at 8:45 o'clock, May 7, 1907, when Michael Maloney and David Pittsley, two of the oldest and most valued employees in that mine, were instantly killed by a fall of rock. Maloney and Pittsley and five other men who were working about a mile and a half from the entrance, were widening a heading for another track. The coal had been removed and Maloney started to remove a prop, when the rock surface overhead began to "creep." [from the "Punxsutawney Spirit," Punxsutawney, PA, Tuesday, May 7, 1907.].);
(Buried at St. Cosma's Roman Catholic Cemetery near Punxatawney in Jefferson County, PA.);
(His wife, Annie Flynn Maloney, died just 3 years after Michael Maloney, leaving 7 children. Some were sent to live with relatives and the two youngest were sent to live in an orphanage.
Maloney, Thomas
(English Miner, Employee ca.1903, Canoe Ridge No. 1 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 40, married.);
(Injured.  Injured by a fall of rock, in the Canoe Ridge No. 1 Mine, Sept. 13, 1903.)
(Killed.  Killed in the Rossiter Mines, May 23, 1918, at the age of 54.)
Maloney, William
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Maroglio, Fred
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Marsh, Roy C.
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Matta, A.
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Maykowski, Albert
(Miner, ca.1912, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Rose Milewski Maykowski, children.)
McCarty, Thomas
(American Miner Boy, Pick Miner ca.1916, Canoe Ridge No. 3 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 18, single.);
(Injured. Leg fractured. Struck by a broken rail that came up through a motor, while riding on the motor, in the Canor Ridge No. 3 Mine, Oct. 2, 1916.)
McCloskey, James T.
(Miner, Conveyor Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
McCloskey, John
(Scotch Miner, Rockman ca.1915, Canoe Ridge No. 3 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 52, married.);
(Injured. Ribs broken by a fall of slate while cleaning up loose slate on an entry, in the Canoe Ridge No. 3 Mine, December 7, 1915.)
McCloskey, Patrick J.
(Miner, ca.1905, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(Passed his examination for Mine Foreman, Second Grade ca.1905.  Received his Certificate ca.1905.);
(Miner, Mine Foreman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
McDougall, Malcolm
(Superintendent, ca.1916, of the Canoe Ridge Nos. 1, 2, & 3 Mines, Indiana Co., PA, for Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corp.)
McKeown, William E.
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
McMinn, Harry
(Miner, Pick Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
McNally, Owen
(Scotch Miner, Trackman ca.1918, Rossiter No. 1 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 67, married.);
(Injured. Fingers lacerated. Caught between a mine car in which he was riding and other mine cars on a sidetrack, in the Rossiter No. 1 Mine, November 27, 1918.)
Melvin, David
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Migleirini, Alex
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Mikoske, Bruno
(See: Mykosky, Bruno
Milicia, Antonio
(See: Milicia, Joseph.)
Milicia, Joseph
(Miner, ca.1922, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 28, married, wife Frances Milicia, age 20.);
(See also: Milicia, Antonio.)
Miller, David
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Miller, Jess
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Dorothy Miller.);
(Started working in the Rossiter mines when he was 17 year old.)
Miller, Jesse W.
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Miller, M.
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(Killed.  Killed in a mining accident, in the Rossiter Mines.)
Mizerak, George
(Miner, ca.1920, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 42, married, wife Monica Mizerak, age 35, 8 children.)
Mizerock, John
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Mocek, Henry T.
(Miner, Rock Man, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Mocek, Walter, Jr.
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Mocek, Walter, Sr.
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Mogle, I. E.
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Molanari, Joe
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Molinengo, Giovanni
(Miner, ca.1919, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 40, married, wife Lueva Molinengo, age 45, 1 child.)
Moni, Tony
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Monosky, Nick
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Moroni, Antonio
(Miner, ca.1922, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 40, 2 children.)
Morrell, Paul
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Morrocco, Angelo
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Mrazik, Joseph
(Miner, ca.1917, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 56, married, wife Josephine Mrazik, age 56.)
Myers, William
(Miner, Foreman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Mykosky, Bruno
(Miner, ca.1923, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 44, 9 children.);
(See also: Mikoske, Bruno.)
[ N ]
Nagi, John
(Miner, ca.1929, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Barbra Plaski Nagi.);
(See also: Nagy, John.)
Nagi, Mike
(Miner, ca.1911, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 50, married, wife Lydia Nagi, age 44, 3 children.)
Nagy, John
(See: Nagi, John.)
Narlarnik, Andy
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 46, married, wife and children in the old country.);
(Killed.  His skull was crushed by a fall of rock, after he fired a shot in the rock without an assistant, in the Rossiter Mines, Sept. 26, 1917. [from the Marion Center Independent, Sept. 26, 1917.].)
Nastasi, Antonio
(Miner, ca.1921, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 39, married, wife Maria Nastasi, age 41, 7 children.)
Neal, Guy
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Neal, Ronald
(Miner, Conveyor Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Noerr, Ray
(Miner, Laborer, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Nowicki, Walter John
(Miner, ca.1918, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 33, married, wife Victoria Nowicki, age 18, 1 child.)
[ O ]
O’Brien, James
(Irish Miner, Pick Miner ca.1908, Canoe Ridge No. 1 Mine, Indiana Co. PA, Age 55, married, 5 children.);
(Killed. Fatally injured by fall of bone coal, in the Canoe Ridge No. 1 Mine, July 25, 1908. He was drawing back a pillar, and while loading a mine car the bone coal fell from a slip.)
Obrien, Ginger
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Obrien, Peter
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Obrien, William
(Miner, Motorman & Brakeman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Older, Harry
(American Miner Boy, Trapper Boy ca.1906, Canoe Ridge Mine, Indiana Co., PA,Age 15, single.);
(Injured.  Foot cut off.  Caught in a switch and was struck by a mine motor, in the Canoe Ridge Mine, Jan. 3, 1906.  Unavoidable.)
Olson, Lewis
(Miner, Motorman & Brakeman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Orto, Frank
(Miner, ca.1921, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 47, married, wife Mary Orto, age 40, 3 children.)
Oship, George
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Oship, John
(Miner, Rock Man, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Oshenic, Kostic
(Miner, ca.1936, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
[ P ]
Pablic, Stanley
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Paleo, Anton
(See: Poleo, Anton.)
Palgota, John
(Miner, ca.1910, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 32, married, wife Zusy Palgota, age 28, 4 children.)
Penberthy, Johnn.
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Penberthy, Thomas R.
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Pennan, David, Sr.
(Miner, Pick Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Pennett, Antonio
(See: Permetti, Antonio.)
Pennetti, Antonio
(Miner, Pick Miner, ca.1908, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Catherine Fera Pennetti.)
Permetti, Antonio
(Miner, ca.1919, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 42, 5 children.);
(See also: Pennett, Antonio.)
Peterson, Edwin
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Petro, Andy
(Polish Miner, Pick Miner ca.1914, Canoe Ridge No. 3 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 36, married.);
(Injured. Arm broken by fall of slate at the face of a pillar while undermining coal, in the Canoe Ridge No. 3 Mine, December 9, 1914.)
Pierce, E.
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Pifer, Hayes
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Pifer, Thomas
(Miner, Machinist, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Pigal, Joseph
(Polish Miner, Machine Miner ca.1918, Rossiter No. 3 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 48, married.);
(Injured. Leg and foot injured. Caught be a mine car that left the track on a heading at the room mouth, in the Rossiter No. 3 Mine, January 10, 1918.)
Pinizzotti, Mariano
(Miner, ca.1912, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 44, married, wife Josephine Pinizzotti, age 32, 6 children.);
(See also: Pinizzotto, Mariano.)
Pinizzotto, Mariano
(See: Pinizzotti, Mariano.)
Piotrowski, Alexander
(Miner, ca.1914, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 36, married, wife Stefania Piotrowski, age 40, 4 children.)
Pisarcik, Emil
(Miner, ca.1948, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(He was a member of the Rossiter No. 2 First Aid Team, ca.1948.  [from the "Indiana Evening Gazette," Indiana, PA, Aug. 7, 1948.].)
Pisarcik, Joe N.
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Pisarcik, Joseph F.
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Pisarcik, Joseph N.
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Pisarick, Matt
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Pitonyak, Anton
(Miner, ca.1920, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 39, 5 children.)
Pittsley, David
(American Miner, Rock Miner ca.1907, Canoe Ridge No. 3 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 28, married, 3 children.);
(Killed. With Mike Maloney, in Canoe Ridge No. 3 Mine, May 6, 1907. Were working with some other men making a new turnout, and Maloney went under the slate to knock out a prop when a large body of bone coal and slate fell from a slip burying him under it. Pittsley was standing nearby and without any thought of danger to himself, but with a desire to rescue Maloney, he went in and tried to lift the bone and slate off Maloney, when a second fall took place and Pittsely was also killed. The slip in the floor could not be noticed.);
(Killed. The first fatal accident in the history of the Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corporation's mines in Rossiter, occurred last night at 8:45 o'clock, May 7, 1907, when Michael Maloney and David Pittsley, two of the oldest and most valued employees in that mine, were instantly killed by a fall of rock. Maloney and Pittsley and five other men who were working about a mile and a half from the entrance, were widening a heading for another track. The coal had been removed and Maloney started to remove a prop, when the rock surface overhead began to "creep."  [from the "Punxsutaney Spirit," Punxsutawney, PA, Tuesday, May 7, 1907.].)
Pittsley, Saul
(American Miner Boy, Mine Car Coupler ca.1917, Canoe Ridge No. 1 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 16, single.);
(Injured.  Arm fractured by falling off the tipple.  Outside the Canoe Ridge No. 1 Mine, May 24, 1917.)
Poleo, Anton
(Miner, ca.1904, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 42, married, Josephine Poleo, age 33, 4 children.);
(See also: Paleo, Anton.)
Popp, Joe
(Miner, ca.1919, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 48, married, wife Sofia Popp, age 38, 3 children.)
Prokay, John
(Miner, ca.1945, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(Took the First Class Mine Foreman Examination, at Indiana State Teachers College, June, 1945.  [from the "Indiana Evening Gazette," Indiana, PA, June 8 1945.].)
Pruent, Frank
(American Miner, Machine Runner ca.1917, Canoe Ridge No. 3 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 28, married.);
(Injured.  Leg cut and foot fractured by a mining machine near the face of a room, in the Canoe Ridge No. 3 Mine, Aug. 30, 1917.)
Prutsnal, Frank
(Miner, ca.1914, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 40, married, wife Joanna Prutsnal, age 30, 6 children.);
(See also: Prutznal, Frank;  Pruznal, Frank.)
Prutznal, Frank
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(See also: Prutsnal, Frank.)
Prutznal, John S.
(Miner, Conveyor Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Prutznal, Joseph
(Miner, Conveyor Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Pruznal, Frank
(See: Prutsnal, Frank.)
Przybrowski, Peter
(Miner, Conveyor Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Przybrowsky, Peter
(Miner, Pick Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Pugh, Mr.
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(Killed. Died in the Rossiter Mines, ? )
Puleo, Giuseppe
(Miner, ca.1916, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 35, married, wife Antonia Puleo, age 30, 5 children.)
Pulero, Pietro
(Miner, ca.1914, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 46, married, wife Antonia Pulero, age 35, 6 children.)
Pusacoskie, Frank
(American Miner Boy, Scraper ca.1914, Canoe Ridge No. 3 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 19, single.);
(Injured. Leg broken by being caught between a mining machine and a prop while riding up a room on the mining machine, in the Canoe Ridge No. 3 Mine, July 6, 1914.)
[ Q ]
[ R ]
Racin, Dan
(Miner, ca.1903, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Lizie Racin.)
Rania, Wuncenty
(Miner, ca.1913, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 37, married, wife Antonina Rania, age 31, 6 children.);
(See also: Komys, Wincent.)
Rash, William
(American Miner, Pick Miner ca.1903, Canoe Ridge No. 3 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 21, single.);
(Injured. Leg broken and back injured by a fall of roof, in the Canoe Ridge No. 3 Mine, August 20, 1903.)
Reaarvick, Bruno
(Polish Miner, Scraper ca.1906, Canoe Ridge No. 4 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 25, single.);
(Injured.  Back injured by a fall of mine roof, in the Canoe Ridge No. 4 Mine, Feb. 19, 1906.  Due to his carelessness.)
Reed, Josp.
(Miner, ca.1904, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Christeena Reed.);
(Lived on Sun Set Road, Rossiter, PA, ca.1904.)
Reed, Roy
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Reeseman, David C.
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Reich, Wm. M.
(Miner, Pick Miner ca.1911, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Reichard, Frank E.
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Reish, Mr.
(Miner, Pick Miner ca.1913, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Vallie A. Reish.)
Reiter, Martin
(Miner, Teamster ca.1904, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Myra Reita.)
Rejman, Pietr
(Miner, ca.1913, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 32, married, wife Caroline Rejman, age 26, 2 children.);
(See also: Ryman, Peter.)
Rencari, Antonio
(See: Roncari, Antonio.)
Rescene, Daniel
(Miner, ca.1901, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Lixie Rescene.)
Restifo, Guy
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Revak, John
(Miner, ca.1919, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 36, married, wife Mary Revak, age 32, 4 children.);
(See also: Revak, John, Sr.)
Revak, John, Jr.
(Miner, Pick Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Revak, John, Sr.
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(See also: Revak, John.)
Riddle, Clayton
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Riddle, Clayton
(Miner, ca.1948, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(He was a member of the Rossiter No. 2 First Aid Team, ca.1948.  [from the "Indiana Evening Gazette," Indiana, PA, Aug. 7, 1948.].)
Riddle, Dale
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Rissock, Mr.
(Miner, ca.1913, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Robertson, Thomas
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Rodgers, Andrew
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Rodgers, James
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Rodgers, John
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Roman, Paul
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Roman, Sam "Iron Sam"
(Miner, Pick Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Roncari, Antonio
(Miner, Pick Miner ca.1916, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 26, married, wife Josephine Roncari, age 23, 1 child.);
(See also: Rencari, Antonio.)
Roncari, Antonio
(Miner, ca.1920, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 44, 4 children.);
(See also: Rencari, Antonio.)
Rosa, Frank
(Italian Miner, Motorman’s Assistant ca.1918, Rossiter No. 1 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 20, single.);
(Injured. Leg broken. Struck by a mine motor while turning the switch for the motor, in the Rossiter No. 1 Mine, August 5, 1918.);
(Miner, Machine Boss, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Rosa, M. J.
(Miner, ca.1948, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(He was a member of the Rossiter No. 2 First Aid Team, ca.1948.  [from the "Indiana Evening Gazette," Indiana, PA, Aug. 7, 1948.].)
Rosa, Ninzio
(Miner, ca.1919, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 56, married, wife Rosetta Rosa, age 46, 5 children.)
Rose, Mike J.
(Miner, Foreman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Rosenberger, Lee L.
(Miner, ca.1906, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Sara A. Rosenberger.)
Ross, Nick
(Miner, ca.1905, Rossiter Mines, Indiaa Co., PA, married, wife Rosetta.)
Rossi, Antonio
(Miner, ca.1920, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 31, married, wife Concetta Rossi, age 26, 2 children.)
Rossi, Gennaro
(Miner, ca.1926, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 29, 3 children.)
Rossi, Luigi
(Miner, ca.1917, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 43, windower, 3 children.)
Roule, Robert
(Miner, ca.1904, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Amelia Roule.);
(Lived on Sun Set Road, Rossiter, PA, ca.1904.)
Roule, William
(Miner, ca.1902, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Mary Roule.)
Roush, William
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Rowe, William
(Miner, ca.1903, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 29.);
(Killed.  Dec. 31, 1903.)
Rowles, Edward
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Rule, William
(Miner, ca.1905, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Mary Rule.)
Runco, Fred
(Miner, ca.1911, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 27, married, wife Fortunata Runco, age 23, 4 children.)
Rusel, Alx
(Miner, ca.1903, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Isabel Rusel.)
Ruspini, Carlo
(Miner, ca.1920, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 39, 3 children.)
Russo, Guiseppe
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Ryan, William
(Miner, Foreman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Ryman, Peter
(See: Rejman, Pietr.)
Rypczyk, Victor
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
[ S ]
Sajat, John, Sr.
(See: Sojat, John, Sr..)
Sano, Joe
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Santo, Mike
(American Miner Boy, Coal Loader ca.1915, Canoe Ridge No. 4 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 17, single.);
(Injured. Leg broken by cars on heading, in Canoe Ridge No. 4 Mine, July 26, 1915.)
Sarnosky, Charley
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Satoskey, Sadak
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Savoia, Bennie J.
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Savoia, Vincent
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Saye, Russel
(Miner, ca.1936, Rossiter Mines, Age 35, married, 2 child.);
(Killed.  Swept away in the Rossiter Flood of March, 1936.);
(A Russel Saye also worked at the Frances Mine, Indiana Co., PA.)
Sbiglio, Nicola
(Miner, ca.1921, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 41, 9 children.);
(See also: Sbruglo, Nicolo.)
Sbruglo, Nicolo
(See: Sbiglio, Nicola.)
Scott, Charles E., Jr.
(Miner, Conveyor Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Sdao, Guissepa "Joseph"
(Italian Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Sedoskey, Stanley, Jr.
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Sedoskey, Stanley, Sr.
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Seger, Albert F.
(Miner, Conveyor Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Seger, Arthur W.
(Miner, Conveyor Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Seger, Oren L.
(Miner, Conveyor Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Seger, Oscar
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Seger, Sam
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Segratta, Frank
(Italian Miner, Coal Loader ca.1914, Canoe Ridge No. 3 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 22, single.);
(Injured. Leg broken by a fall of slate at the face of a cross-cut in the heading, in the Canoe Ridge No. 3 Mine, October 6, 1914.)
Seman, Steve
(Miner, ca.1913, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 39, married, wife Verona Seman, age 31, 6 children.)
Senott, Angelo
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Senott, George
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Senott, Joseph
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Serian, Arch.
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Shaffer, C. M.
(Miner, Pick Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Shaffer, Haven J.
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Shaffer, J. B.
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Shaffer, Levi
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Shannen, Thomas
(Miner, ca.1905, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Annie Shannen.)
Shenosky, John
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Shillingford, R. A.
(General Superintendent, ca.1901, ca.1903, ca.1904, ca.1905, ca.1906, Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corporation, Clearfield, PA, Canoe Ridge Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Shimelonis, Paul
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Shimelonis, William
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Shinar, Jacob
(Miner, Machine Repairman ca.1917, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age  33, married, wife Mary Shinar, age 30, 4 children.);
(See also: Shinor, Jacob.)
Shinor, Jacob
(See: Shinar, Jacob.)
Shiock, Carl
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(Carl Sojat [Shiock] also worked at the Adrian Mines, Jefferson Co., PA.);
(See also: Sojat, Carl.)
Shiock, Frank
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(Frank Sojat [Shiock] also worked at the Adrian Mines, Jefferson Co., PA.);
(See also: Sojat, Frank.)
Shiock, John, Jr.
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(John Sojat, Jr. [Shiock] also worked at the Adrian Mines, Jefferson Co., PA.);
(See also: Sojat, John, Jr.)
Shiock, John, Sr.
(See also: Sajat, John, Sr. & Sojat, John, Sr..)
Shiock, Steve
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(Steve Sojat [Shiock] also worked at the Adrian Mines, Jefferson Co., PA.);
(See also: Sojat, Steve.)
Shiock, William
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(William Sojat [Shiock] also worked at the Adrian Mines, Jefffeson Co., PA.);
(See also: Sojat, William.)
Shugars, Shermans
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Simmons, Sam
(Miner, ca.1904, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Ella Simmons.)
Simon, Joe
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Simon, Joe, Jr.
(Miner, Pick Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Simon, John
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines.)
Sinclair, George
(Miner, Rock Man, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Sirianni, Ancanglo
(Miner, ca.1919, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 30, married, wife Jennie Sirianni, age 32, 4 children.)
Siska, Simon
(Miner, ca.1913, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 27, married, wife Veronica Siska, age 20, 4 children.)
Sitosky, Edward
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Sitosky, Jack
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Skindell, Andy
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(Son of Matthew Skindell, who was killed in the Rossiter Mines. After his father was killed in the mines, he moved to Michigan and worked for General Motors.)
Skindell, Matthew
(Miner, ca.1926, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Anna Ratzkevitch Skindell, 15 children.);
(Killed.  Killed in a mining accident, in the Rossiter Mines, ca.1926.);
(His wife was pregnant with their 15th child, Edward A. Skindell, who was born March 24, 1927, after Matthew Skindell was killed in the mines.  Anna Skindell resided in Rossiter until the mid 1960's.)
Slatarsky, Satutnin
(Miner, ca.1913, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 40, married, wife Adella Slatarsky, age 34, 8 children.);
(See also: Sztorsky, Saturnin.)
Smith, James
(American Miner, Spragger ca.1914, Canoe Ridge No. 1 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 33, married.);
(Injured. Three toes bruised while being caught between mine cars while handling a trip of empty mine cars on a heading, in the Canoe Ridge No. 1 Mine, January 30, 1914.)
Smith, O. B.
(American Miner, Lineman ca.1917, Canoe Ridge No. 1 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 23, single.);
(Injured.  Face, haed and arms burned by electirc wire.  Outside the Canoe Ridge No. 1 Mine, Oct. 11, 1917.)
Smith, Paul
(Miner, ca.1915, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Elva Potts Smith.)
Smith, William
(Miner, ca.1904, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Pauline Smith.)
Smitz, Francis Joseph "Frank"
(Miner, ca.1920, Canoe Ridge Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Elizabeth Haggerty Smitz, born in Scotland, 5 children.);
(Born in Perkinsville, NY March 9, 1880 and died July 18, 1954 in Follansbee, WV after moving there to work in the steel mills.)
Sojat, Carl
(See: Shiock, Carl.)
Sojat, Frank
(See: Shiock, Frank.)
Sojat, John, Jr.
(See: Shiock, John, Jr.)
Sojat, John, Sr.
(Miner, ca.1918, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 48, married, wife Annie Sojat [Shiock], age 40, 8 children.);
(John Sojat [Shiock] also worked at the Adrian Mines, Adrian, Jefferson Co., PA.);
(d. ca.1959.)
(See also: Sajat, John, Sr.;  Shiock, John, Sr.)
Sojat, Steve
(See: Shiock, Steve.)
Sojat, William
(See: Shiock, William.)
Solondo, Rosario
(Miner, ca.1905, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Susie Solondo.)
Solreck, Jno. S.
(Hungarian Miner, ca,1900, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Mary Solreck.)
Sonake, Andy
(Miner, ca.1901, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Mary Sonake.)
Spenelli, Salvador
(Miner, ca.1910, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Ginny Spenelli, 3 children.)
Spinnelo, Sam
(Miner, ca.1905, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Jenn Spinnello.)
Sprankle, Edward
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Sprankle, George
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
St. Clair, James
(Miner, ca.1904, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Mary St. Clair.);
(Miner, ca.1905, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(Passed his examination for Mine Foreman, Second Grade ca.1905.  Received his Certificate ca.1905.)
Stahlman, N. Paul
(Miner, Rossiter Mines.)
Stamler, Carl F.
(Miner, ca.1934, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Charlotte Tucker Stamler.)
Stamler, Chris
(Miner, Rossiter Mines.)
Stamler, George
(Miner, Rock Man, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
States, William C.
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Stepano, Dan
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Stephenson, John
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Stewart, Alex
(Miner, ca.1905, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Jennie Stewart.)
Stewart, Bob
(Miner, Foreman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Stewart, James
(American Miner, Motorman ca.1918, Rossiter No. 1 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 31, married.);
(Injured. Arm broken. Struck by a trolley pole which pulled out of the socket,  on a motor, in the Rossiter No. 1 Mine, December 20, 1918.)
Stewart, Robert B.
(Miner, ca.1904, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Maud Stewart.);
(Lived at House No. 5 West St., Rossiter, PA, ca.1904.)
Stifey, Joe
(Miner, Motorman & Brakeman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Stiffish, Andy M.
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Stiles, Perley
(Miner, Motorman & Brakeman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Stiles, Perley
(Miner, ca.1948, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(He was a member of the Rossiter No. 2 First Aid Team, ca.1948.  [from the "Indiana Evening Gazette," Indiana, PA, Aug. 7, 1948.].)
Stiver, Oren. W.
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Strachan, Dave
(American Miner, Employee ca.1906, Canoe Ridge No. 4 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 21, single.);
(Injured.  Foot injured, caught in a trip of mine cars inside the Canoe Ridge No. 4 Mine, Feb. 16, 1906.  Accident unavoidable.);
(See also: Strachen, David.)
Strachan, David
(Miner, Repairman ca.1907, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(Injured.  Head and shoulder injured by a fall of rock, in the Rossiter Mine, May 7, 1907.)
(See also: Strachan, Dave;  Strahan, David.)
Strachan, James
(American Miner, Runner ca.1908, Canoe Ridge No. 3 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 19, single.); (Killed. Fatally injured December 11, 1908 in Canoe Ridge No.3 Mine. He was running a loaded trip of mine cars down the heading when the first car jumped the track and knocked the mine car on which he was standing against the rib. Crushing him between the mine car and the rib. He died a month later.)
Strachan, Leroy
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Strachan, Robert H.
(Miner, ca.1905, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Maud Strachan.);
(Miner, ca.1915, Rossiter, Indiana Co., PA.);
(Passed his examination for Mine Foreman, Second Grade. Certificate issued 1915.);
(Miner, Foreman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Strachan, William
(Miner, ca.1905, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Maud Streachan.);
(Scotch Miner, Motorman ca.1916, Canoe Ridge No. 4 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 35, married, 4 children.);
(Killed. Instantly killed by a fall of roof on a heading, in the Canoe Ridge No. 4 Mine, July 6, 1916.)
Strachar, David
(Miner, ca.1901, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Mary Strachar.)
Strahan, David
(Miner, ca.1907, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(See also: Strachan, David.)
Strambi, Luigi
(Miner, ca.1920, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 45, 3 children.)
Strauss, Abe
(Miner, Pick Miner ca.1906, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 29, married, wife Lena Strauss, age 23, 1 child.)
Struck, Mike
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Sulivan, Pat
(Miner, ca.1903, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Ellen Sulivan.);
(See also: Sullavan, Pat.)
Sullavan, Pat
(See: Sulivan, PA.)
Sullivan, Jerry P.
(Irish Miner, Pick Miner ca.1905, Canoe Ridge No. 4 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 54, married.);
(Injured.  Head and breast crushed by a fall of coal, in the Canoe Ridge No. 4 Mine, July 17, 1905.)
Sullivan, John
(Miner, Blacksmith ca.1904, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Maggie Sullivan.)
Sutter, Lynn
(Miner, Mine Foreman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Swab, Clifford L.
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Swanson, J. L. S.
(Miner, ca.1904, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Annie Swanson.)
Swanson, A. M.
(Miner, ca.1904, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Hulda C. Swanson.)
Swisher, Dale
(Miner, ca.1904, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Cassie Swisher.)
Sztorsky, Saturnin
(See: Slatarsky, Satutnin.)
[ T ]
Tarleton, Robert
(Miner, ca.1906, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(Passed his examination for Mine Foreman, Second Grade, ca.1906.  Certificate issued ca.1906.)
Terrana, Anthony
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Timblin, Warren
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Timko, Mike
(Polish Miner, Pick Miner ca.1917, Canoe Ridge No. 3 Mine, Indiana Co., PA, Age 53, married.);
(Injured.  Leg fractured and hip bruised between mine cars.  Outside the Canoe Ridge No. 3 Mine, Aug. 25, 1917.)
Tollini, Julie
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Tombarsky, Vaolusky
(Miner, ca.1901, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Jesse Tombarsky.)
Torrell, F.
(Miner, Rositer Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Toth, Joseph
(Miner, ca.1901, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Julie Toth.)
Tranboski, Val
(Miner, ca.1902, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Julie Tranboski.)
Trebisonda, Guiseppe
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Trgbnec, Antonio
(See: Truance, Antonio.)
Truance, Antonio
(Miner, ca.1918, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 63, married, wife Annie Truance, age 60, 1 child.);
(See also: Trgbnec, Antonio.)
Truance, Carl
(Miner, Rock Helper, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Truance, Carmen
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Truance, Dominic
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Truance, Felix
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Truance, Louis
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Trunce, Tony
(Miner, ca.1901, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., pA, married, wife Carnale Trunce.)
Turack, Mik
(Miner, ca.1904, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Mary Turack.)
Tusko, Andro
(See: Yusko, Andrew.)
Tzbickie, Kajetn
(See: Tzbicky, Kajeton.)
Tzbicky, Kajeton
(Miner, ca.1917, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 39, 7 children.);
(See also: Tzbickie, Kajetn.)
[ U ]
Unsworth, Chas.
(Miner, Conveyor Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Unsworth, Charles N.
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Unsworth, William
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Unsworth, William
(Miner, Welder, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
[ V ]
Vadszi, John
(Miner, ca.1905, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Lizzi Vadszi.)
Valimont, W. B.
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Vanderwort, J. H.
(Miner, ca.1904, ca.1905, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Jean Vanderwort.)
Vandine, Harry
(Miner, ca.1900, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Gertrude Vandine.)
VanDyke, Harry
(Miner, Mule Barn Caretaker, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Varcholak, Andrej
(Hungarian Miner, ca.1901, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Maria Varcholak.);
(from Obruzino, Saros Co., Hungary.)
Varko, Andro
(Miner, ca.1900, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Mary Varko.)
Vaskorsee, Andy
(Miner, ca.1901, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Mary Vaskorsee.)
Venora, Frank
(Miner, ca.1905, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Mary Venora.)
Viano, Giuseppe "Joseph"
(Miner, ca.1913 - ca.1917, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 27, married, wife Mary Viano, 2 children.);
(Killed. Killed in a mining accident in the Rossiter Mines, Sept. 22, 1917.  Interred in West End Catholic Cemetery, Punxutawney, PA.)
Vincenzo, Cario
(Miner, Pick Miner ca.1911, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 30, married, wife Annie Vincenzo, age 19, 3 children.)
Vite, Lloyd
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Vrewiskoski, John
(Miner, Pick Miner ca.1914, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 45, married, wife Agnes Vrewiskoski, age 30, 3 children.);
(See also: Wiertiesky, John.)
[ W ]
Walchack, John
(Miner, ca.1911, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 36, married, wife Barbar Walchack, age 35, 5 children.)
Walsh, Perry
(Miner, ca.1904, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Maud Walsh.)
Washolovich, John
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Washcovich, Fred
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Wasicki, Adam
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Wasicki, Francis
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Wasicki, Frank
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Wasicki, Mike
(Miner, Machine Repair, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Watkins, Merle
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Watt, R. H.
(Miner, Motorman & Brakeman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Welsh, Frank D.
(Superintendent, of the Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Wetzel, Ray
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Wiertiesky, John
(See: Vrewiskoski, John.)
Williams, Charles
(Miner, ca.1904, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Ida Williams.)
Williard, E. C.
(Miner, ca.1903, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Nannie Williard.)
Williard, Harry
(Miner, Rock Man, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Williard, Lon
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
(Son of E. C. Williard.)
Wilson, K.
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Wineberg, Aron
(Miner, ca.1905, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Josephine Wineberg.)
Wineberg, Irvin
(Miner, ca;.1904, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Percela Wineberg.)
Winkle, William
(Miner, ca.1902, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Maggie Winkle.)
Witherow, Merrill
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Wolfgang, Russell
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(Injured.  Lost a leg in a mining accident, in the Rossiter Mines.)
Wonderling, Melvin
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Wood, Jno. A.
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Woodward, B. J.
(Miner, Foreman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Wrobel, Jan
(Miner, ca.1913, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 36, married, wife Helen Wrobel, age 26, 4 children.)
Wrobel, John
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Wyazanko, Andrey
(Miner, ca.1915, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 43, married, wife Jula Wyazanko, age 39, 8 children.)
[ X ]
[ Y ]
Yablonoski, Jozef
(Miner, ca.1914, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 35, married, wife Kunegunda Yablonoski, age 24, 2 children.)
Yamri, Giuseppe
(Miner, ca.1916, Rossiter Mnes, Indiana Co., PA, Age 37, 6 children.)
Yanoski, Edward
(Miner, Conveyor Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Yanusevicz, Francis
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Yanusevicz, Joe
(Miner, Machine Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Yanuzewicz, Joseph
(Miner, ca.1914, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 37, married, wife Alice Yanuzewicz, age 32, 5 children.);
(See also: Yanusewies, Joseph.)
Yanusewies, Joseph
(See: Yanuzewicz, Joseph.)
Yesstvebrsky, Mayk
(See: Yestrebsky, Michael.)
Yestrebsky, Michael
(Miner, ca.1919, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 57, married, wife Mary Yestrebsky, age 49.);
(See also: Yesstvebrsky. Mayk.)
Young, Frank
(Miner, Pick Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Yuen, John
(Miner, ca.1902, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Mary Yuen.)
Yusko, Andrew
(Miner, Pick Miner ca.1914, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 46, married, wife Frances Yusko, age 48, 9 children.);
(See also: Tusko, Andro.)
[ Z ]
Zachivieja, Razimierz
(Miner, Pick Miner ca.1915, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 41, married, wife Mary Zachivieja, age 40, 5 children.);
(See also: Zachiviejoc, Kazimierz.)
Zachiviejoc, Kazimierz
(See: Zachivieja, Razimierz.)
Zattalo, Guiseppe
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Zebroski, Joe
(Miner, ca.1905, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Stanislave Zebroski.)
Zolenski, Felix
(Miner, ca.1905, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Annie Zolenski.)
Zemlin, Andy
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Zemlin, John
(Miner, Motorman, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Zemlin, Mike
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Zemlin, Philip
(Miner, Pick Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Zemlin, Steve
(Miner, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Zitnar, Mike
(Miner, ca.1919, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 56, married, wife Annie Zitnar, age 53, 1 child.)
Zucchelli, Constine
(Miner, ca.1905, Rossiter Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Minnie Zucchelli.)

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