Foster, Newton C.

Webb City, Missouri, June 8.--Following a "hunch" that he would be injured or killed, if he continued working underground in mines, Newton C. Foster, 24 years old, laid off for two weeks, and returned this morning to be killed within three hours after he began work. Foster was killed at the Butts-Kansas Mine at Waco Missouri at 9:30 this morning. He was pushing a loaded can to the shaft, when a small boulder fell from the drift roof, fracturing his skull. An ambulance of the Steele undertaking company was summoned and removed the body to the morgue of the Webb City undertaking company. Foster had lived at Webb City for the last ten years, coming to Webb City from Arkansas. He was a member of Battery G., local unit of the 203rd regimen, Missouri national guards.

Funeral services will be held from the West Side Methodist church at 2:30 Wednesday afternoon. Burial will be in Mount Hope cemetery. Members of Battery G will attend the services in a body and a squad will fire a salute at the grave. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Cliffie Foster, and two small daughters.