Haley, Harold

Harold Haley, 12 years old, fell to the bottom of the east field shaft at the Vinegar Hill Barr Mine at Picher Oklahoma about 11:30 o'clock Tuesday night and was instantly killed. Miners said that the boy had been a daily visitor at the mine and was preparing to descend the shaft in a can with a miner friend when he missed his footing at the top of the shaft and fell to his death.

When his body was brought to the surface, it bore indications that he had been killed instantly. His legs and arms were broken and his body was covered with bruises. The flesh in the palms of both hands was frightfully torn, showing that the lad had caught the cable as he was falling and had fought bravely to grip the cable tight enough to stop his downward flight, but the momentum of his falling body was so great that his grip could not save him and the flesh was torn from his hands. The boy leaves a widowed mother who resides near the lumber yard at Blue Mound Kansas, on the Kansas side of the State Line Road.

The boy's body was taken to the morgue of the Hocker undertaking company at Picher. Funeral arrangements have not been made.