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Surnames: HORN, RATCLIFF, ROHL, THOMAS, WRIGHT
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This obituary was originally posted by Bob Jackson on May 1, 2004 and was somehow deleted.
It is now being re-posted.
THE BLOOMFIELD NEWS, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Thursday January 6, 1927, Volume
LI, Number 9, Page 12, Column 2, "COUNTY NEWS--ROBISON." Mr. and Mrs. Frank HORN
spent Sunday evening until bedtime with Mr. and Mrs. Clell WRIGHT. Mr. and Mrs. WRIGHT are
almost heartbroken over the sad fate of their son, Claud, who was a victim of the
Francisco mine disaster. His body is yet sealed in the mine. Our deepest sympathy goes out
to all of the bereaved.
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THE BLOOMFIELD NEWS, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Thursday February 3, 1927, Volume
LI, Number 13, Page 3, Column 4 & 5, "BODY OF CLAUDE WRIGHT TAKEN FROM COAL
MINE." [Transcribed May 1, 2004 from microfilm of the original newspaper on file in
the Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library.]
The body of Claude WRIGHT, formerly of Koleen, who was killed by a gas explosion in the
Francisco coal mine, near Princeton, on December 9, was recovered by searchers last
Saturday. Three other bodies of the five missing men were also recovered. They were S. J.
ROHL, W. P. RATCLIFF and Walter THOMAS. The other man cannot be found. He was Emery WEST.
It is supposed he was badly mutilated and that his body was torn to pieces in the force of
the explosion. The body of Claude WRIGHT was found in the water sump under a dead mule
which had also fallen into the sump. All four of the bodies were taken out of the mine
Tuesday and prepared for burial after K. S. STRICKLAND, the coroner, had examined the
bodies after they had been brought to the top.
In this fatal accident thirty-seven men lost their lives and twenty escaped and survived,
but everyone was severely crippled and injured.
The president of the Francisco Mining Co. is William JOHNSON, of Vincennes, who is also
president of the State Mining Board. On account of Mr. JOHNSON's official positions,
Joseph A. SCHELLENGER, of this place, spent part of last week and Tuesday and Wednesday of
this week representing the Coal Company at the mine assisting in the rescue work. Mr.
SCHELLENGER is a stockholder in the mine. He will return to Princeton to attend the
coroner's inquest.
The body of Claude WRIGHT was brought as far as Bicknell last night and was taken today to
the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clell WRIGHT, east of Rock Spring, near Robison.
Mr. WRIGHT was aged about thirty-five years and had married while he was in Illinois
several years ago engaged at farm work. His wife, Jessie WRIGHT, suffered a nervous
breakdown following the explosion and loss of her husband and also on account of her
mental condition was taken to Evansville, where she died three weeks ago. Her body was
brought to Ashcraft Chapel and interred in the Chapel cemetery.
The funeral for Claude WRIGHT will probably be held tomorrow at the Ashcraft Chapel, after
which the casket will be deposited in a grave beside the wife and companion who died from
her great grief.
They had two children, a son, aged eleven years, and a daughter, aged thirteen years, who
are residing with the grief stricken grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Clell WRIGHT.
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Link to a photo album of ASHCRAFT Chapel and Cemetery located in Jackson Township, Greene
County, Indiana:
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Link to the Obituary of his father, William McClelland WRIGHT [1862IN—1934IN]:
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Link to the Obituary of his mother, Mary Alice (HORN) WRIGHT [1867IN—1937IN]:
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