Robert Baxter Sr., 50, of Canton, was killed, apparently instantly Friday morning when slate caved in on him at the Baxter’s Rawalt Coal Company mine, on route 24, near Liverpool. He was co-owner of the mine.
Immon Blackaby, Fulton county deputy coroner, said Baxter was dead when workers extricated his body from the cave-in. He said his neck apparently had been broken.
A giant-sized slab of slate reportedly loosed itself from the roof of the mine, where Baxter was working alone. Blackaby said it required four men to lift the slab off Baxter’s body.
A brother, Malcomb Baxter, was killed in a coal mine accident near Farmington about 15 years ago.
Blackaby said an inquest into the death will probably be conducted this week in the Murphy Memorial home.
He had lived in the Canton vicinity all his life and had been in the coal mining business for a number of years. He was a member of the Eagles lodge and Morning Star A. F. & A. M. lodge.
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