Blunk, Allen

Obituary -- Cardin, Jan 30 Three miners were instantly killed at 9:30 o'clock this morning when a slab weighing several hundred tons fell on them in a drift...

Picher Okla., Jan 30.--Three miners, one of whom was trying out for work as a shoveler, were killed this morning when a slab fell in a drift in shaft No. 4 of the Velie Lion Mine at Cardin Oklahoma, burying them beneath the debris. Three others were trapped in the drift for two hours. Two miners and Grover Todd, an undertaker, were injured while recovering the bodies, having been struck by another small slab that fell while rescue work was being carried on. The dead: A. Blunk, about 57 years old, Commerce. E. Church, 22, Commerce. Everett McClain, about 21, Locust Grove Oklahoma. It was the first day McClain had worked in the mine. The slab fell at 8:35 am. The bodies were uncovered...at 10:30 am. About 300 cans of dirt fell. Officials at the mine said this morning that work had been carried on in the drift several months and that the ground appeared to be in a safe condition.

Obituary -- The position of the bodies indicated Blunk, McClain and Church were running toward the mouth of the shaft when the slab fell. They apparently had been warned of the impending fall by smaller rocks dropping from the roof. Their bodies were badly mangled. Blunk and Church were employed as shovelers while McClain was "candidating," having gone down into the mine to see if there was a job open...

Obituary -- Blunk is survived by his wife, Mrs. Laura Blunk, and seven children, five of whom reside at home. The children are: Mrs. Delsie Chaney and Mrs. Ethel Nichols, of Commerce, and Tressie Blunk, Dorothy Blunk, Aliene Blunk, Pauline Blunk and William Blunk at home. Church was unmarried. His parents live at Fort Gibson Oklahoma...Blunk's body is at the parlors of the Hal Mitchelson undertaking company at Commerce.