Joseph Robeza, Jr., 22, driver, died helping to rescue men from a burning mine, Cherry, Illinois, November 13, 1909. Robeza, who had ascended to the surface when warned of the fire, returned to the second vein and, in the heat and dense smoke, called and assisted dazed miners to the hoisting cages, at one time 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 him and others to death on the cage. 5609-487
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