Burns, Edward Wrinkle

Picher Oklahoma, March 26.--One miner was killed and two injured, one probably fatally, by an explosion at the Chubb Mine in west Treece Kansas, at 9 this morning.

Edward Wrinkle Burns, 21 years old, was instantly killed. Austin Chamberlain, 32, was permanently blinded and probably will not recover, and Walter Sanders, 46, was deafened and received other minor injuries, when an unexploded charge was struck.

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The three men were alone in the mine when the explosion occurred and the exact cause has not been determined. Burns, a "bruno" man, was horribly mangled and this led to the belief that he had shoveled into the unexploded shot, although Chamberlain, a machine man, and Sanders, his helper, might have drilled into the charge.

Chamberlain and Sanders were rushed to hospitals where their injuries were treated by physicians. The former was taken to the Picher hospital in the Green-Stephens ambulance and the latter to the same hospital in the Todd ambulance. Chamberlain's eyes were blown from their sockets, his face was mangled and scores of small rocks were blown into his arms and legs. Sanders suffered injuries to one wrist in addition to the loss of his hearing.

Brown's body was taken in charge by the Todd undertaking company, of Picher. He is survived by his stepfather and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Brown, of Monarch Oklahoma; one brother, Walter Wrinkle, and one sister, Miss May Burns.

Chamberlain has a mother living at Altus Oklahoma, while Sanders, lived with family at Treece Kansas.

Today's tragedy was the first fatality since the Chubb Mine began operation about a month ago.

Picher Oklahoma, March 27.--Funeral services for Edward Burns, 21 years old, of Monarch Oklahoma, who was instantly killed in an explosion at the Chubb Mine, Treece Kansas, Monday were held from the chapel of the Todd undertaking company, of Picher, at 2:30 this afternoon. The Rev. Paul Ellis, Pastor of the First Baptist church, officiated. Burial was in the Miami cemetery.

Austin Chamberlain, who was blinded and otherwise seriously injured by the same explosion was reported to be resting easy at the Picher hospital this morning.

Walter Sanders, third victim of the explosion is considered out of danger and will probably regain his hearing. He is also at the Picher hospital, Picher Oklahoma.