Degraffenreid, Jack

Picher Oklahoma, Sep 26. Jack Degraffinreid, 30 years old, a hard rock lead and zinc miner, of Hockerville Oklahoma, was killed; Elmer Stinson of Hockerville, and Alfred Proctor of Joplin Missouri, were badly injured, and Cleve Craig of Joplin suffered minor injuries at the Indiana Mine yesterday afternoon shortly after 3 when caught beneath a falling boulder. Stinson and Proctor are now at the American hospital at Picher. Their condition is not regarded as serious. Craig was able to leave the hospital after being given medical treatment.

The accident was due to a large boulder rolling against timber bracing the roof, causing the timbers to fall and allowing the boulder to break loose and fall. Six men were endeavoring to roll the boulder to one side, so it would be out of the way of the shovelers, when it got away from them and crashed against the timbers.

Degraffinreid was employed as a machine man. He was married and besides his wife is survived by a one-year- old son and two brothers. He was one of several men injured in an accident at the Black Eagle Mine about one year ago, in which several fingers were blown from one of his hands. No funeral arrangements have been made. The body is at the Todd undertaking parlors at Picher.

Picher Oklahoma, Sept. 7--The funeral of Jack Degraffinreid of Hockerville Oklahoma, who was killed at the Indiana Mine Thursday afternoon when caught beneath a falling slab was held from the chapel church at Spurgeon, Missouri, this afternoon at 2. Burial was in the Thresher cemetery in Spurgeon under the direction of Todd undertaking company, of Picher.