Staton, Charley

Two miners, Charles Staton and Dan House, were instantly killed while tamping a charge of explosives in a hot drill hole in the Diamond C. Mine near Lincolnville Oklahoma last Saturday morning. House was an Oneida Indian and Staton a son of Charles Staton, an old Quapaw Agency, Indian Territory farmer. The latter was 21 years old and just recently married, and his body was literally blown to fragments. The jar of the charge set off the box of high explosives over which Staton was standing while serving House who did the tamping. House's body was sent to the Shawnee Oklahoma graveyard for burial.