Eastwood, Charles Lewis

Picher Oklahoma, Sept. 21 One miner was killed and two others were injured in an underground dynamite accident late Friday night at the Walton Mine, southwest of Melrose Kansas. Fatally injured was Charles Lewis Eastwood, 38 year old father of four children. The victim, who lived on Miami Route 2, died before medical treatment could be administered. He suffered severe head and stomach wounds, witnesses at the morgue said.

Painful injuries were sustained by Ernest Furnas, 45, and Robert Rakestaw, 24, both of Chetopa Kansas. Furnas' physician at Picher hospital Saturday said the miner's face and eyes were damaged by the blast. He is showing improvement and was reported in "good shape" by the doctor. The other accident victim was released from the hospital Saturday after treatment for minor rock wounds on his face, chest and arms, it was said. Fellow workers at the mine said the accident occurred when a dynamite charge, being loaded in a hole by Eastwood, a powder man, exploded prematurely. Furnas is ground boss of the operation and Rakestaw is employed as a machinist.

Eastwood is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ollie Eastwood; three sons, Charles Edward Eastwood, Geary Dennis Eastwood and Woodward Leondres Eastwood; and one daughter, Esther Modine Eastwood, all of the home. Other survivors are his father, Newt Eastwood, McCurtain Oklahoma; a brother, Bill Eastwood, Henryetta Oklahoma; and four sisters, Mrs. Gladys Wilson, Red Oak Oklahoma, Mrs. Linney Sawyer and Mrs. Velda Gilham, both of McCurtain, and Mrs. Clara Mahan Oklahoma City Oklahoma.

Funeral services for Charles Lewis Eastwood, 38 year-old victim of a mine accident Friday, were conducted at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon at the Mount Zion church in Cardin Oklahoma. Eastwood was killed in a premature explosion of a dynamite charge at the Walton Mine, southwest of Melrose, Kansas. Two other men were injured. Burial was in G.A.R. cemetery, under direction of Goodson - Durnil Funeral home.

Charles Eastwood, a 35 year old miner living on Miami Route 2, was instantly killed at 9:30 o'clock Friday night and two other miners injured at the Walton Mine of the United Zinc and Smelting Company Mine near Melrose Kansas when a hole being loaded with powder blew up in a mine drift.

Eastwood, who was loading the hole, was killed instantly. Injured by flying rock were Ernest Furnace living near Chetopa Kansas and Robert Rakestraw. Rakestraw was dismissed from the Picher hospital at Picher Oklahoma, after receiving emergency treatment. Mr. Furnace remained in the hospital for further medical observation and attention. He was reported to be improving from his injuries.

Eastwood had been employed in the mining field for some 18 years. Besides previously mentioned survivors are his parents Mr. and Mrs. Newt Eastwood. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at Mount Zion church, west of Cardin Oklahoma with burial in the G.A.R. cemetery at Miami.