Cook, Edward

Edward Cook, a miner, employed in the Laclede Mine near Tar River Oklahoma, [now Cardin] had a narrow escape from death Monday night when one of his legs was torn from the socket. Cook, while at work in the table room, had his trousers caught in a set screw. He was picked up by the machinery and swirled around once or twice, when William Soulen, foreman, hearing his cries, shut off the power. The injured man was given first aid by T. R. Brandt, engineer, and then sent to the Picher hospital at Picher Oklahoma, where he is under the care of Dr. J. C. Williams. While the injury is painful, the attending physician says the man will recover.

Edward Cook, of Tar River, Oklahoma, who had one leg torn off when his trousers were caught in the machinery of the Lacleda Mine, near Tar River, Monday night, died in St. John's hospital, Joplin, Missouri, Wednesday. He is survived by a wife and four children. The funeral was conducted in Joplin Thursday and interment was in the Carl Junction Missouri cemetery.