Hadlow, Chris

Chris Hadlow, 28, a machine helper, was instantly killed at 9:25 o'clock Wednesday morning at the Premier Zinc Mine on South Main street at Picher Oklahoma and Earl Likens, a shoveler; injured. A slab fell from the wall of the hard rock lead and zinc mine and caught the two men. Charles Miller, the machine man, escaped injury. Likens, the injured man, was cut about the head. He was removed to the Picher hospital at Picher and later taken to his home. The body of the dead miner was taken to the Todd morgue at Picher. He is survived by a wife. Both Hadlow and Likens were widely known in Picher and the mining district.

Picher Oklahoma, Nov 21 The body of Chris Hadlow who was killed by a falling slab at the Premier Mine on South Main street, Picher, Wednesday morning, will be sent to Seligman Missouri, for burial Friday. He is survived by a wife and two children in south Picher. Earl Likens, a shoveler who was injured in the same accident returned to his home in south Picher after having his injuries dressed at the Picher hospital, Picher.

Picher Oklahoma, Nov 22 Friday morning at 8:30 o'clock the funeral cars bearing the body of Chris Hadlow, who was killed in an accident at the Premier Mine, left for Seligman Missouri, about a 135 miles distant. Although the roads were in bad condition and the funeral was held at the Seligman location, the funeral cars were back to Picher by 1 o'clock Saturday morning, according to George E. Washburn, a driver for the Todd undertaking company, of Picher.

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Mrs. Ruth Hadlow filed suit in the Ottawa county Oklahoma district court in Miami Saturday for $2,250 damages from the Premier Mining Company of Picher. In her petition she alleges that through negligence on the part of the mining Company that her husband, Chris Hadlow, met death. He was killed while working in the mine last November.