Kemmerer Coal Company Records
name wife child(ren) date paid
Andreatta, Louis $2,000 $1,642 10-30-23
Andreatta, Joe 2,000 1,900 8-25-23
Aleo, A. 2,000 3,600 8-25-23
Aleo, Joseph 2,000 2,597.34 8-23-23
Bebber, A. 2,000 3,600 8-25-23
Berta, Geo 2,000 1891.33 8-23-23
Bebber, E.
Broll, Tony
Baba, K. 666.67 9-14-23
Christian, John 2,000 8-25-23
Citerio, Mike 2,000 3,600 8-25-23
Cappelli, W.E.
Castagno, John
Cavecchio, Livio 333.33 mother 7-27-25
Christensen, Carl
Coli, John 757.33 8-28-25
Coli, V. 333.33 parents 8-28-25
Desanti, Enrico 2,000 3,529.67 8-23-23
D'Odrico, Osvaldo 333.33 parents 3-11-25
D'Odrico, Felice 333.33 parents 3-11-25
Dujinic, Paul
Dagnenti, Fortunato 666.66 572.11 2-21-25
Erickson, Matt 2,000 8-25-23
Erickson, Eino 1,000 mother 10-26-23
Essman, George 2,000 8-23-23
Eynon, Frank 2,000 3,340.65 8-23-23
Faustino, Val. 2,000 1,752.33 8-25-23
Georges, John 2,000 3,600 8-25-23
Gratiski, John 2,000 3,600 8-23-23
Girordelli, Ettore
Hasada, M. 333.33 parents
Hobara, H. 666.67 375.33
Hill, Mike
Haji, T. "no compensation due no dependants"
Haji, C. 2,000 10-18-23
Itow, K
Jarvie, August, Sr. 2,000 1,507.01 8-23-23
Kangas, Henry 1,000 mother 8-23-23
Kare, Eino 2,000 1,755 8-23-23
Kiddy, John 2,000 3,600 8-25-23
Kovach, Joe 2,000 3,600 8-25-23
Kusnirik, Mike 2,000 950.67 8-25-23
Karino, K. 2,000 10-18-23
Kawase, S. 2,000 1,807.67 8-23-23
Kozaki, I. 2,000 2,759 8-23-23
Kojima, K
Kanada, T.
Lopez, John 2,000 3,466.67 8-25-23
Lupcho, Andrew, Sr. 838.33 10-6-23
Lupcho, George 2,000 1,757.67 8-23-23
Lupcho, Joe "no dependants"
Loddo, Fred "no dependants"
Magnino, John 2,000 2,677.33 8-25-23
Martin, John H. 2,000 8-25-23
Metsaha, Matt 2,000 1,514 8-25-23
Motoh, Joseph 2,000 3,600 9-8-23
Masaki, S. 333.33 mother
Magnino, Mark "no compensation due account no dependants"
Martini, Frank
Mendino, Cerillo "no compensation due account no dependants"
Menapace, Attilio
Metsala, Hjalmar 333.33 mother
Massino, Palaver "no compensation due account no dependants"
Muira, F. "no compensation due account no dependants"
Noji, A time lost: 1 mo. 18 days, amount of compensation: $80.00
remarks: No. one mine explosion. Overocme by mine gasses
Navarro, Frank T.
Oyama, A "no compensation due account no dependants"
Pernice, Marion 2,000 3,562 8-23-23
Palmyra, Pretari "no compensation due account no dependants"
Pellegrini, Carl 666.67 598.55
Pieroni, John 666.67 1,063.44
Pinamonti, S. "no compensation due account no dependants"
Rankin, Thos. 2,000 3,600 9-26-23
Roberts, T.J. 2,000 1,653 8-25-23
" " post humous child born 1,947 2-25-24
Roberts, Isaac 1,000 father 9-29-24
Roberts, Louis
Rodrigues, Joe
Rollo, Joe 333.33 mother 8-18-25
Sager, John, Sr. 2,000 8-25-23
Sager, John, Jr. 1,000 10-6-23
Savant, John
Smith, Nick
Sanchez, Tom 2,000 10-8-23
Trujillo, Robert 2,000 2,510.66 8-25-23
Toresani, Louis
Rimpano, Louis
Takasugi, T. 333.33 parents
Wainwright, Joseph, Sr. 2,000 1,872.66 10-4-23
Wainwright, Joseph, Jr. 1,000 mother 10-6-23
Walton, J.A. 2,000 3,600 9-8-23
Warhol, Paul 1,000 mother 8-23-23
Womer, George 2,000 9-14-23
Vito, Tony
Valeriano, Vale "no compensation due account no dependants"
Zumbrunnen, John W. 2,000 3,600 8-25-23
Zumbrunnen, John A. 1,000 parents 10-4-24
Source:
hand transcribed from the Kemmerer: Coal Company Records by Janet Roberts Lott, located at the Fossil Country Museum, Frontier/Kemmerer, Wyoming.
Wyoming Worker's Compensation Fund
33 Compensation Cases Filed
Many erroneous reports have gone forth concerning the compensation, particularly as to the shortage in the state funds. The fact is that there is nearly a million dollars now in this fund. The law is that widows receive $2,000, while dependents of single men get $1,000. For children the law allows $120 a year for boys until they are 16 and the same for girls until they reach 18 years of age, with a maximum of $3,600 for children in any one family. It is estimated that over two hundred thousand dollars will be appropriated to the families of the victims of the disaster. In the case of aliens, with dependents in other countries, one-third of the above amounts applies. Under the compensation law, the Kemmerer Coal Company will have to pay 3 percent of the amount of its payroll into the state fund until the vast sum that is now appropriated it reached.Statistics of Miners Killed in Frontier Mine No. 1. 14 August 1923:
14 American--10 married, 4 single, 26 children
12 Austrian--6 married, 6 single, 22 children
37 Italian--16 married, 21 single, 32 children
17 Japanese--8 married, 9 single, 3 children
11 Finnish--6 married, 5 single, 6 children
5 Mexican--5 married, 6 children
2 Slavic--2 married, 2 children
1 Canadian
99 miners--53 married men--46 single men--97 dependent children
Source:
The Kemmerer Republican, Friday August 24, 1923, page 2
33 Compensation Cases Settled
Unequaled in the history of workmen's compensation that greatest of all laws for the workers, was the record for promptness of relief secured for 33 families of the victims of the mine disaster of last week. Yesterday state warrants for $133,000 were due to arrive in Kemmerer in settlement in full for 33 cases.
After the last of the mine horror victims had been tenderly laid away, attention was at once turned to compensation from the state fund, and the task started. Judge Arnold and Reporter Cook of the District Court were on hand Monday, and Clerk of the Court Wilford Neilson, as soon as he received the employer reports from the Kemmerer Calvary in charge of the compensation fund of the state was that the claims had been passed upon in his office and the warrants were in the mail and should reach Kemmerer yesterday.
The figures relative to the cases follow:
99--Total death 99
99--Total cases reported for compensation August 21
33--Cases handled that day--31 widows, 2 mothers, 36 minor boys and 34 minor girls.
$2,000--Amount awarded 2 mothers
$69,070.01--Amount awarded children
$133,070.01--Total award in 33 cases
The remaining 66 cases will be acted upon as soon as company reports are received, and many details are learned. The remaining are largely those of foreigners with dependents in other countries, and some of them no doubt will require much investigation and time before awards can be made.
Source:
The Kemmerer Republican, Friday, August 24, 1823, page 1.
