Cochrane, Clifford

Three miners were instantly killed, three others seriously injured and one slightly hurt when crushed by a stone slab in the Merrill Mine one mile from St. Louis Oklahoma, at 10:30 o'clock Wednesday morning. The dead: Clifford Cochrane, Beloit Kansas; C. Davis, Webb City Missouri, W. C. Wood, Columbus Kansas. The Injured: Oliver J. Cochrane, brother of the dead man, Beloit Kansas; Richard Asbell, Hockerville Oklahoma; E. B. Bennett, Joplin Missouri; Will Warren, address not known.

The men were in the ground and came to the shaft to get a drink of water, according to the injured, who were able to talk. Without warning, a huge slab fell from the roof of a drift and snuffed out the lives of three members of the party. The three seriously injured were taken to the Picher hospital at Picher Oklahoma where it was said none would die. Warren was only slightly injured and did not go to the hospital. Cochrane, who was killed, had intended leaving the mine Thursday for his home. He was in the draft and expected to depart for camp then. He was 25 years old. Some of the men who were killed had families. Details of the accident were lacking.