Creech, John Preston

Picher Oklahoma, April 28.--John Preston Creech, 25 years old, died at the Picher hospital at Picher, tonight as the result of internal injuries received more than a month ago at the Jeff City Mill, where he was employed as a mill man. Surviving relatives include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Creech, west Picher; a brother, Joseph Creech, and a sister living in Hockerville Oklahoma. He was unmarried. The body is being held at the Todd undertaking parlor at Picher pending completion of funeral arrangements.

A suit for damages to the extent of $38,810 was filed in Ottawa county Oklahoma district court at Miami late yesterday afternoon by the parents of John P. Creech, 25 year old Picher Oklahoma man, who died last April from the results of injuries alleged to have been received at the Jeff City Mine about a quarter of a mile east of Picher Oklahoma, against the owners of the Jeff City Mine. It is alleged in the suit that Creech was put to driving a mule which attempt had been made to use underground had proven too wild for such use. Creech, it was said to have been unaware of the vicious disposition of the mule and was not on his guard when the mule turned on him on the first day of April and trampled him fatally.