Finney, Raymond "Ray"

Raymond Finney, an employee of the Picher Lead Company, working in the sludge department of the Crawfish Mill, was fatally injured Saturday morning, when it is supposed that he was thrown by a belt and had his skull fractured and two bolts driven through his body. Mr. Finney is 23 years of age and unmarried. Little was known of him by the Picher Oklahoma people, as he was working his first shift when the accident happened. As nearly as could be learned from the position of the body when found, he was trying to apply a dressing to a belt and was caught, while standing on a 2x12, eight feet from the floor, striking his head on something and then falling to the floor below, where he was impaled on the two long bolts that were used as reinforcing for concrete work. The two bolts passed so nearly through the man's body that they pushed the flesh up on the other side of his body. The injured man was taken to a hospital at Joplin Missouri, but as it was believed that it was impossible for him to live, no operation was attempted.

Raymond H. Finney, 27 years old, died at St. John's hospital in Joplin Missouri from injuries received when he fell at the sludge mill of the Crawfish Milling plant at Picher Oklahoma early Saturday morning. His body was taken to Webb City Missouri yesterday afternoon for burial. Finney had been drafted and was expecting to go to Camp Funston with the next quota. Finney fell from an elevator at the Crawfish plant, a distance of fifteen feet and was impaled when he landed upon a foundation from which two bolts protruded. The bolts extended through his body and it required the strength of four men to remove the body.

Raymond Finney, who was impaled on an iron spike Saturday when he fell at the sludge mill of the Crawfish Mine, and who was sent to a hospital at Joplin Missouri for treatment, died Sunday and his body sent to Webb City Missouri for burial. Finney, who was 27 years old, had been drafted, and expected to be called in the next quota. He fell a distance of about 15 feet, his body striking two bolts on the foundation of the building, which penetrated his body. It took four men to free him from the iron. Note: One article said Roy Finney and the other said Raymond Finney.

Ray Finney, age 26, was injured at the Crawfish Mill Saturday, by falling about 14 feet on two iron rods. One penetrated his back and the other pierced him under a lung. His condition was reported to be serious and little hope is entertained for his recovery. He was taken to St. John's hospital, Joplin Missouri, in the Todd ambulance of Picher. Finney was applying belt dressing on a pulley, it is said, when the accident happened. H. W. Gaman had an arm broken by a fall in the same mill Wednesday.