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Foster, Lloyd

Age 35

Woodchuck Mine

Miami News Record · Mar 25 1936 · Pg 8 · Col 6

Picher Oklahoma, Three men, one of them the ground boss, were injured at the Woodchuck Mine, south of Cardin Oklahoma, in a fall of a slab late this afternoon. The injured included John Williamson, ground boss, and Lloyd Foster. The name of the third was not immediately available. They were being examined at press-time. It was not known how seriously they were hurt.

Miami News Record · Mar 26 1936 · Pg 2 · Col 8

Picher Oklahoma, John Williamson of Baxter Springs Kansas, ground foreman of the Woodchuck Mine, near Cardin Oklahoma, lay in a hospital at Picher today with serious internal injuries following a mishap in which he and two others were hit by a falling slab late Wednesday afternoon. Another of the miners hurt, Lloyd Foster of near Joplin Missouri received cuts and bruises about the body. He, too, was still in the hospital this afternoon. Joe Clark of Baxter Springs Kansas was dismissed this morning after it was disclosed that he suffered only minor injuries. The trio were brought from the mine in a Todd ambulance from Picher after the accident, which occurred shortly after 3 o'clock.

Miami News Record · Mar 30 1936 · Pg 2 · Col 2

Picher Oklahoma John Williamson of Baxter Springs Kansas, ground foreman at the Woodchuck Mine, who was injured last Wednesday when he and two others were hit by a boulder, was reported improved. This morning. Though he suffered internal injuries, hospital attendants felt he would recover.

Lloyd Foster, 35, from Iron Gates Missouri, who was also injured in the same accident, died at the local hospital Saturday night and was removed to Joplin Missouri where funeral services were held at 2:30 this afternoon at the Hurlbut undertaking chapel. Burial was made in the Forest park cemetery at Joplin Missouri.

Joe Clark of Baxter Springs Kansas, the third man hurt in he accident, was dismissed from the hospital last Thursday.

Disclaimer: If you search for these articles somewhere else, searches should be done by date in the city of Miami Oklahoma. The clippings have "Miami Newspapers, Miami Oklahoma." The paper changed names several times making it difficult to search by title. Most of the Hard Rock Lead and Zinc Fatalities newspaper clippings are from the personal files of I. D. Hulvey, former powderman in the Picher mine and then owner of the Hulvey Insurance Agency.