Isaac Lewis, Jr., 34, liveryman, died helping to rescue men from a burning mine, Cherry, Illinois, November 13, 1909. Lewis, and others at intervals, descended to the second vein of coal, and in the heat and dense smoke, called and assisted dazed miners to the hoisting cages, occasionally going to the surface for fresh air. He was assisting in an attempt to rescue men from the third vein when a blast of heat and flames struck the main shaft, burning Lewis and others to death on the cage. 4556-414
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