FARMINGTON TIMES, Farmington, St. Francois County, Missouri, Thursday, April 27, 1899 FATAL ACCIDENT IN A MINE Joseph Shearlock, a miner working for the Desloge Consolidated Lead Co., was accidentally killed in their mine last Monday morning, the 24th inst., and two Hungarian miners, whose names we have not learned, were seriously injured, one of the latter having his skull slightly fractured, besides receiving internal injuries, and the other having a hand so badly crushed that it had to be amputated. Mr. Shearlock was engaged in removing loose rock from the roof of the mine, and started to prize out what he supposed was a small section of loosed rock, but which proved to be a mass extending almost from pillar to pillar. Seeing the danger, he jumped from the ladder to run out from beneath it, but before he could escape the rock fell and caught him and the two Hungarians, killing him and injuring the others as related.