Anderson, Cyrus R.

"Get out of the way and let me work, or I'll not be able to earn my salt." Fifteen minutes after C. R. Anderson, 35 years old, 1412 Iowa avenue, had made that remark to fellow workmen, a three- ton slab fell from the roof of a drift in the Riverside Mine near Fillmore's bridge yesterday morning, killing him, instantly. Anderson and other workmen had spent more than an hour attempting to remove the slab, driving "gads" into the crevices in an attempt to dislodge it, but it refused to yield to their effort and finally was considered safe. Then Anderson, who was employed as a shoveler and was paid according to the "cans" of dirt he shoveled, told the others to get away, as the slab wouldn't come down and, "I've got to get busy." The slab, in a ten-foot high roof near the face of a drift in which operations were being carried on, which refused to yield to man-pressure, then, by a queer twist of fate, came loose of its own accord, and without warning. Anderson, who was stooping over when it gave way with a roar was crushed and mangled. One other workman received an injured leg.

Frank Fenix, state mine inspector, who conducted an investigation, attributed the falling of the slab to "air slacks" which he said, are common in limestone formation. He said he was convinced that every effort had been made to dislodge the slab and placed no blame for the accident. An inquest will be conducted by Coroner F. J. Bigham of Neosho Missouri at the Hurlbut chapel at 10 am, Monday. The mine is being operated under lease by Ben Westerman and James Adkinson. Anderson had been employed there about two months. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Ethel Anderson; three children, Dorana Anderson, Ruth Anderson and Cyrus Anderson, Jr.; his mother, Mrs. Dora Balley of Mussell Fork Missouri; two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Dorrell, 1053 Pennsylvania ave, and Mrs. D. W. Lentz of Ottumwa Iowa, and two brothers, John Anderson of Saulsbury Missouri, and Homer Anderson of Oklahoma.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete.