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Submitted: 6/30/19 • Approved: 6/30/19 • Last Updated: 7/3/19 • R819986-G0-S3
20 Dec 1869 Kentucky
1 Dec 1891 Carthage, Jasper County, Missouri
Parents
Gilbert Moore Feeback 1845–1904
Maggie E. Feeback 1848–1923
Article printed in the Carthage Weekly Press
December 3, 1891
FELL 150 FEET
Ed Feeback Killed Almost Instantly at the Porter Mine
Last night between twelve and one o'clock Ed Feeback, a young man between 25 and 30 years of age, fell in the Porter shaft a distance of 150 feet and was killed almost instantly. How he came to be there at that hour or what caused him to take the dreadful tumble are mere matters of speculation. But the popular opinion seems to be that he attempted to go down into the shaft by sliding down the rope, a things said to be not unusual for reckless miners. The rope being a wire coil he could not make the riffle, and hence fell to his awful doom. His hands are blistered and torn which goes to substantiate the above theory. He has not been working anywhere for some time, and was out on bail while his case was still pending in city court. He was seen up town at 11 o'clock, and probably wanted to visit with the miners on his way to his home just west of the city.
He was terribly mangled in the fall. His head was crushed, his shoulder broken, his hip dislocated, and his limbs fractured, besides bruises and cuts of all sorts on all parts of his body. The remains were brought up town last night and today are at Mrs. Washburn's boarding house on the corner of Fulton street and Central Avenue. The young man's parents reside just west of this city on the Joplin road. He was unmarried and lived at home.
Coroner Squires came up from Joplin today and was we go to press the inquest is in progress at the city hall. There are vague suspicions of foul play, and some evidence is being brought out to justify that theory, but it is hardly probable that any well defined clue will be obtained.
The funeral occurs tomorrow morning at ten o'clock from the residence of Mrs. Washburn at the corner of Fulton street and Central Avenue.
Contributed on 6/30/19 by tslundberg
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