Cardwell, Arthur

Picher Oklahoma, Dec.9.--Two men were killed instantly in an unusual accident today at the Liza Jane Mine, seven miles northeast of Picher. The dead: Arthur Cardwell, 35 years old, Baxter Springs Kansas. W. A. Pyatt, 35, also of Baxter Springs. Both met death when Cardwell slipped as he was about to step into the can to be lowered into the mine, fell 250 feet to the bottom of the shaft and struck Pyatt, who had gone down on the previous trip of the can. The accident occurred at 7:30, as the ground men were going down for their morning's work.

Both men were dead when fellow workmen, who were at the bottom of the shaft and so narrowly escaped injury themselves, rushed to where the two men had fallen.

The bodies were taken to the Porter Clark undertaking company at Baxter Springs. Cardwell leaves a widow and four children, all of Baxter Springs, and Pyatt leaves a widow and six children, all of whom live at Baxter. Funeral arrangements have not been completed for either of the dead men.

Both Cardwell and Pyatt were employed as ground men at the Liza Jane Mine, which is operated by the Cortex- King Brand Mines Company. The mine is one mile west of Baxter Springs Kansas.

Baxter Springs Kansas, Dec. 9--Art Cardwell and William Pyatt, Baxter Springs miners, were killed instantly at 7:30 am this morning when Cardwell fell 297 feet to the bottom of the Liza Jane Mine shaft, west of Baxter, striking Pyatt, who was standing in a can at the bottom. The men were changing shifts and Pyatt and three others had been lowered into the shaft. Cardwell was standing at the top, awaiting his turn to go down, when he slipped. All of the men had left the can but Pyatt. His body was crushed.

The bodies are being held at the Porter Clark undertaking company morgue, pending funeral arrangements.

Cardwell, twenty-third street and Grant Avenue, is survived by a wife and four children, and Pyatt, Twenty- Fourth Street and Military Ave, by a wife and six children.