Harry G. Hackler
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Eagle Valley Enterprise page 1 - October 17, 1930
LOSES LIFE IN MINE CAVEIN ON BATTLE MOUNTAIN. YOUNG MINER INSTANTLY KILLED FRIDAY--WAS WORKING IN ORE CHUTE WHEN 25 TONS OF ROCK SLID IN ON HIM.
Harry G. Hackler, 29, a slusher in the Empire Zinc company's mine at Gilman, met his death Friday, October 10, where he was buried beneath 25 or 30 tons of rock and earth in the pit in which he was working at the time.
Mr. HACKLER's job was to pull the ore or waste from an upper level through the chute into the pit below. Large boulders had clogged the ore in the chute and he had descended into the chute to break up these rocks when the loose ore on the sides came in on him and completely buried him with tons of rock. The accident occurred at near 9:30 o'clock in the morning and the body was recovered more than an hour later, by pulling the ore in the chute to the pit below, the body coming thru with the debris.
HACKLER is survived by his widow, Julia HACKLER living at Red Cliff, and his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. G. G. HACKLER of Tallequah, Okla., and two brothers. The father and mother and one brother, Ronald, arrived in Red Cliff on receipt of the sad news to attend the funeral.
The body was prepared by burial by Mortician O. W. MEYER of Red Cliff and then shipped to Leadville for burial. Funeral services were held in Leadville Tuesday of this week.
