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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221619-07
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1914
Country: USA
Location: Illinois,Royalton
TC Begins: 00:24:44
TC Ends: 00:29:13
Duration: 00:04:29
The Great Royalton Ills. Mine Disaster of Oct. 27, 1914 Pt. 2 of 2 Continued... Title: “Business section of Royalton Ills.” Store front, movie theater. Large wooden casket / crate loaded onto wagon w/ team of horses. Pan w/ men walk past stores on sidewalk; several cars parked; sign: saloon on top of building. (VERY GOOD “frontier town” footage.) 00:25:49 Title: “The following state & local mine inspectors pose...left to right..” (title card of names). 00:26:29 MCU pan across men posing; most in grimy work clothes & coal dust. 00:27:15 Title: “Preparing temporary monuments for the dead miners.” Two men in overalls w/ many large Eastern Orthodox crosses, grave markers on porch of woodworking shop. Title: “Funerals under auspices of U.M.W.A.” Two men riding on ornate hearse pulled by team past camera, followed by another w/ glass panels; horse drawn covered & open buggies. Long line seen. 00:28:16 Title: “James Snider of Benton, Ills. who has been assisting in rescue work 60 hours.” MCU w/ cigar & bow tie, houses in distance. 00:28:27 Title: “John Dowel who has been on police duty around mine for 60 hours.” Poses w/ cigar, hat & star on jacket. 00:28:39 Title: “Spiro Chiesa & J.M. Prece representing Italian Council.” MCU posing, well dressed. 00:28:53 Title: “B.L. Link on right & P.M. Geno on left, Secy. Austrian Council.” Pose in front of building w/ siding, looking at lists. Immigrants; Immigration; Work Place Hazards; Labor Unions; Workers; Deaths; Coal Mining Accidents;