Three workmen were suffocated today when an estimated 1,000-ton chat slide buried them alive at the Chubb Mine lease on the northwest edge of Treece Kansas. The dead: Ben Booth, 60, 310 North Cherry street, Commerce Oklahoma; Raymond Long, 32, 215 South Maple street, Commerce, and John Pogue, 22, Miami Route 2. The victims were dug out in 30 minutes by a rescue squad of 50 workmen, but all were pronounced dead of suffocation. Efforts through artificial respiration, including the use of a pulmotor by Miami firemen and John Durnil, Picher Oklahoma funeral director, proved futile at the end of an hour's time. The victims, employees of the Miami Rock Products Company, Inc., were running a cable line attached to a 'drag' near the 50 foot chat pile when the slide covered them at about 10:15 am. John Salling, secretary-treasurer, in charge of field operations, said. Ed Banks, crew foreman, said the rescue party included members of the Northeastern Oklahoma extra gang, employees of the Consolidated Supply Company, Captain Mine and other Miami Rock Products Company workers. Booth is survived by his wife and several married children. Long leaves a wife and four children and Pogue is survived by his wife and a sixmonths-old baby girl. The Durnil funeral home at Picher Oklahoma will announce funeral arrangements.

Benjamin F. Booth, 61 years old, of Commerce Oklahoma, who was suffocated Wednesday in an accident near Treece Kansas, is survived by his wife, Bessie Booth of the home; four daughters, Mrs. Lorene Long, Mrs. Mattie Pruitt and Mrs. Ruby Brooks, all of Commerce, and Mrs. Zella King, Webb City Missouri; three brothers, Ira Booth and Joe Booth of Commerce, and Clyde Booth, Washington state, and one sister, Mrs. Mamie Means, Commerce. Durnil funeral home, Picher.

Double funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Assembly of God church in Commerce for Benjamin F. Booth, 61, and his son-in-law, Charles Raymond Long, 37, both of whom were killed in the chat slide near Treece Kansas Wednesday morning. The services will be conducted by the Rev. W. L. Farmer, assisted by Rev. Harry Rogers and Arthur Shawgo. Pallbearers for Mr. Booth will be: John McGinty, Everett Waddle, Bill Plumer, Clifford White, Lloyd Rutherford and Wilson Phillips. Pallbearers for Mr. Long will include: John Salling, Oran Hayes, Rufus Hayes, Eddy Banks, Dutch Watson and Charley Collins. Interment will be G.A.R. cemetery at Miami.

Three workmen were buried alive under a thousand tons of rock which fell from the top of a chat pile on which they were working last Wednesday. The victims were: Ben Booth, 61 years old, Raymond Long, 38, and John Pogue, 21. A hurriedly formed rescue crew worked frantically to dig out the men, but the men were dead from suffocation when they were reached. The slide occurred on the property of the Miami Rock Products company near Treece Kansas, the rock falling on the heads of the men as they were running a cable line near the base of the pile. All of the victims lived in Commerce Oklahoma. It required 45 minutes to rescue Booth, who was covered except for the top portion of his head. Pogue and Long were uncovered a half hour later. The workmen were walking back into the cut on their way to dismantle a drag 'Jennie' which had broken when the west side of the mammoth pile caved in on them. The foreman, Eddied Banks of Miami, and Jack Truelove of Commerce had just left their work to go after repair parts, and when they returned found only the top portion of Booth's head and Pogue's cap near by visible. A Durnil ambulance was called and workmen and miners were called to the scene. A Pulmotor from the Miami fire department was used in an unsuccessful effort to revive the men as they were reached. The men were employed on the drag which fed gravel into a hopper and from which freight cars are loaded. The dray extended back into the cut to the 'Jennie,' anchored in the gravel pit. Long was Booth's son-in-law. Booth is survived by his widow, Mrs. Bessie Booth; a son, Don Booth of Commerce; four daughters, Mrs. Lorene Long, wife of Raymond Long, Mrs. Zella King of Webb City Missouri, Mrs. Mattie Pruitt and Mrs. Ruby Brooks of Commerce; three brothers, Ira Booth and Joe Booth of Commerce, and Clyde Booth of Washington state, and a sister, Mrs. Mamie Means of Commerce. Long Leaves his widow, Mrs. Lorena Long; a daughter, Hazel Long of Pittsburg; three sons, Bobby Ray Long, Jennie Long and Don Long of the home; his mother, Mrs. Ellen Long of Springfield; three brothers, W. P. Long of Miami, J. E. Long of Springfield and Willard Long of Miami, and three sisters, Mrs. W. L. Truelove of Commerce, Mrs. May Henson of Walnut Grove Oklahoma, and Mrs. Nell Ware of Springfield. Surviving Pogue are his widow, Mrs. Eula Pogue; a daughter, Sharon Kay Pogue, eight months old; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Pogue of California; and four sisters, Mrs. Imogene Stoops and Mrs. Sylvia Browning of Miami Oklahoma and Mary Pogue and Betty Pogue of the home.