John (Barkovich) Borkovich (1905)

Born 1905 in Croatia, Austria

Died [date unknown] in Virginia, St. Louis, Minnesota, United States

Biography

John (Barkovich) Borkovich migrated from Croatia to the United States of America.

John was born in 1905. He was the son of Martin Borkovich and Mary Unknown. John migrated with his parents and five siblings to the United States in 1909, when he was just four years old.

In the year 1910 they were all living in Virginia, Minnesota.^[1] His father and brother Joseph were both working for the Norman mine.^[1] On the 11th of March 1911 an horrible accident occurred at the mine. A massive pile of ice and rock, which had repeatedly frozen and thawed, slid down on a dozen of the miners.^[2] John's father was one of the fourteen that died that day, instantly crushed by the 500,000 tons of weight.^[3][4][5]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (www.FamilySearch.org : accessed 28 February 2020), John Borkovich in household of Martin Borkovich, Virginia Ward 2, St Louis, Minnesota, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 237, sheet 20B, family 203, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 724; FHL microfilm 1,374,737.
2. ↑ "Oliver Iron Mining Company - Norman Iron Mine Rockslide," Mine Disasters in the United States, USMineDisasters.MiningQuiz.com, as viewed 27 February 2020. [Original information gained from four articles, listed on the site.]
3. ↑ Staff writer, "Swept to Death By Avalanche," The Montreal Gazette, Montreal, Canada, 13 March 1911, p. 1, col. 7.
4. ↑ "Twenty Track Layers Caught In Pit By Cave-In -- Only A Few Escape," Turtle Mountain Star, Rolla, North Dakota, 16 March 1911, p. 2, col. 2.
5. ↑ "Thirty Miners Are Buried," The Evening Argus, Ossowo, Michigan, 13 March 1911, p. 1, col. 7.

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