It was decided, when a council was held, after
the large crew had become tired out, that the work would be abandoned for the
day, but James Roberts, brother of the missing man was insistent that the
search be continued and with three others he did so. The body was finally located after midnight
yesterday morning in the 7th room of the 30 entry. It had been passed by many times by the
searchers. This brought the total dead
to 99.(10)
Thomas
was working as a fire boss in the mine and it was his own brother who found him
exclaiming, “Here he is! We have got him” (11) where upon the rescuers retrieved
a stretcher and brought the body out from the mine.(2,11) From the coroner’s findings the verdict
being:
The explosion
was cuased (sic) by gas in No. 7 room 30 Entry, same being ignited by fire boss
when relighting his safety lamp, all victims of the explosion thereby meeting
death.(2)
The blame of
the explosion was laid on Thomas Roberts, fire boss for the Kemmerer Coal
Company, Frontier Mine No. 1.
1. Kemmerer
Republican, (Kemmerer, Lincoln, Wyoming), 24 August 1923, page 1,
microfilm; Lincoln County Library, 519 Emerald Street, Kemmerer, Lincoln,
Wyoming 83101.
2. Sneddon Robert
T. Inspector (Dist 1) & Robert V.
Hotchkiss Inspector (Dist2), "State Coal Mine Inspectors Of Wyoming,
Districts No. 1 and 2," year: 1923;
report, 1923; , Wyoming State Archives on microfilm, Cheyenne, Wyoming.
3. Ancestry.com.
U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007., National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA); Washington D.C.; NARA Series: Passport Applications,
January 2, 1906 - March 31, 1925; Roll #: 921; Volume #: Roll 0921 -
Certificates: 119000-119249, 20 Sep 1919-20 Sep 1919.
4. 1910, population
schedule, Year: 1910; Census Place: Kemmerer, Uinta, Wyoming; Roll: T624_1747;
Page: 10A; Enumeration District: 0128; FHL microfilm: 1375760, family of John
W. Roberts; digital images, Ancestry.com (: accessed 11 February 2018);
Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT,
USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006..
5. 1920, population
schedule, Year: 1920; Census Place: Kemmerer, Lincoln, Wyoming; Roll:
T625_2027; Page: 14A; Enumeration District: 56, family of John Roberts; digital
images, Ancestry.com (: accessed 11 February 2018); Ancestry.com. 1920
United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com
Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch..
6. "Border
Crossings from Canada to U.S.," digital, National Archives at Washington, Ancestry.com
(: online 11 February 2018), Thomas Roberts; citing The National Archives at
Washington, D.C.; Washington, D.C.; Manifests of Passengers Arriving at St.
Albans, VT, District through Canadian Pacific and Atlantic Ports, 1895-1954;
Record Group Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787
- 2004; Record Group Number: 85; Series Number: M1464; Roll Number: 404.
7. Thomas Roberts,
death certificate file no. 1391 (14 August 1923), State of Wyoming, Wyoming
State Archives, 2301 Central Avenue, Cheyenne, Wyoming 82001.
8. Border
Crossings from Canada to U.S.," digital, National Archives at Washington, Ancestry.com
(: online 20 July 2018), Thomas Roberts, Nellie Roberts & Mary Roberts;
citing Record Group Number: 85; Series Number: M1464; Roll Number: 404.
9. U.S. World War I Draft Registration Cards,
1917-1918," digital, Ancestry.com. U.S., World War I Draft Registration
Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations
Inc, 2005., Ancestry.com (: online 11 February 2018), Thomas Roberts;
citing United States, Selective Service System. World War I Selective
Service System. Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. Washington, D.C.:,
Roll 2022241 State of Wyoming.
10. Kemmerer Republican, (Kemmerer,
Lincoln, Wyoming), 17 August 1923, page 1, microfilm; Lincoln County Library,
519 Emerald Street, Kemmerer, Lincoln, Wyoming 83101.
11.
Kemmerer Republican, (Kemmerer, Lincoln, Wyoming), 17 August
1923, page 2, microfilm; Lincoln County Library, 519 Emerald Street, Kemmerer,
Lincoln, Wyoming 83101.
Accident of Reports of Kemmerer Coal Company 1915-1960
mine # Name date of injury time lost compensation
1 Roberts, Thomas 8-15-21 less than 7 days ----
remarks: 25 South entry 28 room, 3rd finger of right hand squeezed between a prop and some coal.
1 Roberts, Thomas 1-10-23 12 days $11.25
remarks: No. 1 rock dump, right foot squeezed caught between the car bumpers.
Source:
hand transcribed from the Kemmerer: Coal Company Records, located at the Fossil Country Museum, Frontier/Kemmerer, Wyoming
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