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Anderson, V. G.

Imperial Mine

Joplin Tribune · Jun 09 1913

Olaf Anderson and another brother of V. G. Anderson, who was one of the men killed at the Imperial Mine last Friday arrived yesterday about noon from their home at Iron River Michigan, and later in the day made arrangements with the Webb City Missouri undertaking company for the interment to take place this afternoon at Mount Hope cemetery. They are members of a family of Swedes; their parents being born in Sweden, and their present home is in the heart of the Michigan Iron district, in the extreme northern part of the state. They had been three days in the journey to Webb City, taken for the purpose that of seeing that their brother, who had met such an untimely death, might be provided with proper interment.

V. G. Anderson, who was killed last Friday, had been employed in the iron mines of Michigan before coming to this county, where he had assumed the name of V. G. Fisher in order to escape arrest as a deserter from the U.S. Army.

Disclaimer: If you search for these articles somewhere else, searches should be done by date in the city of Miami Oklahoma. The clippings have "Miami Newspapers, Miami Oklahoma." The paper changed names several times making it difficult to search by title. Most of the Hard Rock Lead and Zinc Fatalities newspaper clippings are from the personal files of I. D. Hulvey, former powderman in the Picher mine and then owner of the Hulvey Insurance Agency.