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GRAVES & STORIES FROM THIS LOCATION that we didn't yet find:

1. Lucia Baldesseri https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9...
* Lucia met with a frightful and fatal accident on a late Thursday afternoon.
* As Charles H. Bertram, the dairyman, was driving up Blair Street seated on his wagon loaded high with baled hay, Lucia stopped him to hand some meat up to him.
* During the conversation she climbed up on the brake of the wagon and grasped the roped binding the load.
* Suddenly, the horses bolted and tore down the street, with Lucia hanging on to the rope for dear life.
* The horses raced around the corner into 14th Street, and in front of Squire Watson's residence the load of hay shifted then crashed off the wagon and landed on top of the unfortunate woman.
* She was carried to her home and medical aid summoned, but her injuries were fatal.
* She had broken ribs, crushed lungs and other internal injuries, complicated by the fact that she was about to be 'confined' (give birth).
* She lived in great agony about 30 minutes, then died, along with her unborn child.

2. Mile Bobich https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9...
* Mike died at noon at the home of Pete and Annie Savich after being ill six months with miners consumption and tuberculosis.
* Born in Jugoslavia, he had worked mainly at the Sunnyside Mine for about five years.
* He had no relatives in America, but was thought to have a wife in the old country.
* The funeral was under the auspices of the I.O.O.F. at Miners Union Hall and many of Mike's friends were in attendance.
* Judge Palmquist pronounced the eulogy.

3. Anna Leota “Annie” Bell Damschroder https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/2...
* The death of Mrs. Anna Bell Damschroder this morning at Silverton will be sad news to hundreds of Durango people.
* Death was caused by diphtheria with which she was attacked only last Wednesday.
* When the news of her sickness was received in Durango yesterday much anxiety among friends was manifest.
* Mrs. Damschroder had resided in La Plata county at Pine River, and in Durango later, for 22 years.
* She graduated from the high school of Durango, with high honors.
* Her life here had endeared her to an unusually large circle of friends and associates.

4. Mary Gaido https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1...
* Mary died at her home in Silverton after a long illness caused by an affliction of the heart (rheumatic fever).
* She was born in Italy, had lived in Silverton several years and was a student in the Silverton school, until forced to abandon all activities late the previous year.
* She suffered severely from rheumatism more than half her life.

5. Louis E. Ischy Fell down a mine shaft inscription https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/2...
* Fell down a mine shaft in the Silver Lake Mine. “His body was mashed in a terrible shape”.

6. James Mitchell https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1...
* Age 32 Years
* James lived here with his sister, Mrs. Isabella Logan, and her husband, William.
* His wife and family were still back in Ireland.
* Like so many from Europe, he was going to make his career and then send for them.
* James had worked for the Silverton Railroad for some time and was a good and faithful employee.
* His death was caused by a very peculiar accident.
* Working as a coal heaver on the Silverton Railroad, James was walking along the tracks, throwing off rocks.
* When he passed the 'blowout' at about 3:00 in the afternoon, a rock rolled down the mountain and hit him on top of the head, raising a lump.
* His head began to ache, so James decided to quit working, walked a mile and a half into town, and went home.
* His friends thought nothing more of the accident,
* but in the evening, James complained of intense pain, so Dr. Keller was sent for.
* He found nothing wrong with James.
* Ooops.
* James went to bed early, and at 10:30 that night, breathed his last, dying of a severe concussion of the brain.
* His wife and four children still lived in Scotland, where James had been born, and his $2,000 insurance benefits were to go to his widow.

7. John D Lewis https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/2...
* John Lewis, James Stevens, Baker and Warren went up to Silver Lake basin to repair the Iowa tromline
* And yesterday afternoon were working at a point on the line between tower No. 11 and the mine.
* Somewhere between 4 and 5 o'clock, a snowslide broke from near tho Old Dweller mine above them and bore Mr. Lewis away in its pitiless embrace,
* the other men escaping.
* The slide crashed, then came to a standstill at the bottom of the gulch,
* Mr. Lewis had disappeared under the huge mass of snow and whether living or dead, merely conjecture.

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