Calvin, Robert

Several accidents occurred in the mines Tuesday. The Carterville Missouri Republican reports two fatalities, Robert Calvin and a miner named Bassett put in a shot in the bottom of a 33 foot shaft on the Keller land near Webb city Missouri about half-past 10 o'clock yesterday forenoon and climbed out. They leaned over the shaft intending to watch the shot until the fuse began to spit and then withdraw to a safe distance. Bassett saw the fuse spit and called to Calvin, but the latter said that Bassett was mistaken, and he continued to look down the shaft until the shot went off. The result was that a piece of rock struck him squarely in the middle of the forehead, burst the scalp open and fractured the skull. Calvin was alive last report, but was momentarily expected to die. He was a union soldier in the late war, and was adjutant of Crenshaw Post G.A.R. He was a widower.

About half-past 10 o'clock also a miner, named Walter Brown lost his life in a shaft on the old Delp lot on the north Chatham. Brown and his partner, Frank Herriford, were driving a drift and had put in a shot. After it had gone off Brown went into the drift to note the effects, and while examining the ground a mass of rock and dirt fell from the roof and buried. him. It required an hour's work by several men to recover the body. Brown was badly crushed and was taken out dead. He leaves a wife and child. They reside in South Carterville Missouri.