Sikes, Everett E.

Obituary -- age 30, died. Picher Oklahoma, Jul 25. One of the two miners injured yesterday afternoon when a toppling mine derrick, took the lives of two other workers remained in a critical condition today in Picher hospital. He is Harold Connelly, 36 years old, of Miami, who reportedly suffered a critical head injury. Floyd L. Murray, 28, of Picher, escaped with minor injuries. The dead are George F. Brown, 45, of Wilburton Kansas, west of Treece Kansas, and Everett E. Sikes, 30, of Commerce Oklahoma, hoisterman. Brown, employed as a surface clean-up man at the mine, was crushed to death when caught beneath the falling derrick and hopper. Sikes died 40 minutes later in the hospital from chest injuries. The accident occurred at the Hum-bah-wat-tah Mine No. 3 of the Eagle-Picher Mining and Smelting Company, a quarter-mile south of Cardin Oklahoma. What caused the huge steel structure to collapse had not been determined. Funeral services for Sikes will be held at 2 pm Saturday at the First Baptist church in Commerce. The Rev. J. Grover Scales will officiate. Born at Granby, Sikes had lived in Commerce Oklahoma most of his life. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Vivian Sikes; a daughter, Karen Sue Sikes; his father, Virgil Sikes of Commerce; three brothers, Willard Sikes of Miami, Roy Sikes of Richmond California, and Raymond Sikes of Commerce, and three sisters, Mrs. Jewell Linthicum, and Mrs. Loretta Easter of Commerce and Miss Louise Sikes of the home. Burial will be in G.A.R. cemetery at Miami under the auspices of the Mitchelson funeral home, Commerce.