J. Alexander Norberg, 38, mine boss, died helping to rescue men from a burning mine, Cherry, Illinois, November 13, 1909. Norberg ascended from the third vein to the second vein and directed the rescue work of getting dazed miners to the hoisting cages in heat and dense smoke. When a blast of heat and flames struck the main shaft, Norberg and others burned to death on a cage. 5126-417
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