Daughterty, Elmer

Picher Oklahoma, May 19 Elmer Daughterty, 16 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Daughterty of Treece Kansas, was killed about 6 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the Lawyer Mine No. 2, a hard rock lead and zinc mine located two and a half miles northwest of Picher Oklahoma, in diving from a springboard at the mill pond. His head struck against a large metal pipe extending across the pond several feet beneath the surface of the water. His neck was broken. Drivers succeeded in recovering the boy's body after it had been in the water an hour and 45 minutes. Use of a pulmotor failed to restore any signs of life. In order to recover the body it was necessary to dynamite the flood gates of the mill pond to lower the water from its 15 foot depth.

The Daughterty youth and several boy companions were swimming in the mill pond and were not aware of the presence of the pipe extending across the pond. When he failed to reappear after his leap from the springboard, an alarm was given by his companions and an ambulance of the Green undertaking company of Picher Oklahoma, was summoned. The divers recovering the body were Graham Klinefelter, "Buck" Madden and Cleo Fink, all of Picher.

No funeral arrangements have been made. The body is at the morgue of the Green undertaking company of Picher.

Picher Oklahoma, May 20 Funeral services for Elmer Daugherty, 16 years old, of Treece Kansas, who was killed Wednesday at the mill pond of the Lawyer Mine No. 2, were held at the chapel of the Green undertaking company at Picher, at 10 o'clock this morning. The Rev. J. L. Brown, pastor of the Central Methodist church, officiated. Burial was in the Greenlawn cemetery in Cherokee County Kansas, northwest of Picher Oklahoma and Treece Kansas. The Daugherty youth was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Daugherty of Treece Kansas. He is also survived by four sisters, Mrs. Bertha Riley and Stella Daugherty, Lulu Daugherty and Hazel Daugherty at home, and four brothers, Orville Daugherty and Jewell Daugherty, at home, Dewey Daugherty of Monarch and Roy Daugherty of Treece Kansas. The youth received fatal injuries when his head struck an iron pipe in the mill pond while he was diving.