Finch, H.

Baxter Springs Kansas, April 25. H. Finch, 30 years old, 47 West Fourth street, Webb City Missouri, was killed instantly at 11 this morning by a falling slab in the north drift of the Race Track Mine, a mile west of Baxter. He and J. Engle of Webb City, a machine man who he was helping, were sitting on a stope of a pillar in the drift talking when the slab of several tons fell. Engle escaped uninjured. It took about thirty minutes to uncover Finch's body, which was severely mangled. He was taken in an ambulance to the Harvey undertaking company parlors, and later removed to Webb City in an ambulance of the Webb City undertaking company. Mr. Finch had been working off and on for some time in the ground at the Race Track Mining Company. He is survived by his wife, a child and his mother, all of Webb City. Funeral arrangements are incomplete, but burial will probably be at 3:30 Tuesday afternoon in Carterville Missouri cemetery.