John Bundy, 53, mine manager, died helping to rescue men from a burning mine, Cherry, Illinois, November 13, 1909. In the heat and dense smoke, Bundy spent two hours warning and assisting dazed miners to escape from the mine. Suffering from the smoke and heat, he was heedless of warnings to leave. When a blast of heat and flames struck the main shaft, he and others burned to death on a hoisting cage. 5133-421
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