Dominick Formento, 32, merchant, died helping to rescue men from a burning mine, Cherry, Illinois, November 13, 1909. Formento descended to the second vein of coal in a hoisting cage to assist dazed miners from the heat and smoke. When a blast of heat and flames struck the main shaft, Formento and others burned to death on the cage.
4605-415Dominick Formento
Cherry, IL