Person
Mining
J. Taniguchi
Role: Labourer
Year of birth: 1872
Date of death: 27 Sep 1897
Cause of death: Struck by car
Age at death: 25
J. Taniguchi was a Japanese labourer at the no. 4 mine. One day, on September 27th, 1897, his lamp went out while on the mine slope. As he was trying to relight it, he was struck by mine cars and killed. He was 25 years old.