Hughes, Walter

Miami Record Herald · Oct 23 1919 · Pg 1 · Col 3

Picher Oklahoma, Oct 23 Walter Hughes 19 years old, sustained fatal injuries at the New Chicago Mine at 9 o'clock Wednesday night and he died 15 minutes later after Dr. I. Phillips and the ambulance of the Todd undertaking company, had arrived immediately after the accident. A falling slab caught Hughes who was a machine man. His helper, Sam Gregory, escaped injury.

Hughes was married Oct 11 to Miss Iva Jennings, daughter of U.S. Jennings, deputy sheriff and the young couple lived with her parents at 522 Main street, Picher. Besides the widowed bride, Hughes is survived by his father, Frank Hughes at Mineral Virginia, and two married sisters whose first names are Bertha and Alice, one residing near her father and the other at Blue Ridge Georgia. Funeral arrangements are held pending word from relatives. The body is at the morgue of the Todd undertaking company, of Picher.

Miami Record Herald · Oct 24 1919 · Pg 4 · Col 2

Picher Oklahoma, Oct 24 Funeral services for Walter Hughes, who was killed in a mine accident Wednesday night at the New Chicago Mine are awaiting the arrival of F. Hughes his father, from Mineral Virginia.

Miami Record Herald · Oct 27 1919 · Pg 3 · Col 3

Picher Oklahoma, Oct. 17 Funeral services for Walter Hughes, who was killed last Wednesday night by a falling slab at the Sinden Mine at Tar River Oklahoma, will be held at the chapel of the Todd undertaking company, of Picher, Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Wesley Post, pastor of the Union Church, will officiate. Burial will be in the Baxter Springs Kansas cemetery. Frank Hughes, father of the deceased arrived from Mineral. A wife, Mrs. Ivy Hughes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. U. S. Jennings, survives. She resides at 522 Main street, Picher.

Miami Record Herald · Oct 29 1919

Picher Oklahoma, Oct 29 Arthur Torrence and Fred Young, miners, were instantly killed by a shot explosion at the Picher Mine No. 6, at 9:10 o'clock this morning. One was working as machine man and the other as helper. Both bodies are badly mutilated. They were taken to the morgue of the Todd undertaking company, of Picher.

Little is known about the men or the manner in which the accident occurred.

Miami Record Herald · Oct 30 1919 · Pg 3 · Col 4

Miners Met Death As Drill Hit An Unexploded Charge

Picher Oklahoma, Oct 30 funeral Services for Fred Elmer Young who was instantly killed in an explosion at the Picher Mine, No. 6, Wednesday forenoon, will be held from the chapel of the Todd undertaking company, of Picher at 1:30 o'clock Friday afternoon and burial will be in Fairview cemetery, Joplin Missouri.

The body of Arthur L. Torrance, 21 years old, who was killed in the same accident will probably be sent to his former home at Norfolk Arkansas where he is survived by his parents and several brothers and sisters.

Young is survived by a wife who resides at the Palace Rooms, three children by a former marriage, Arthur Young, 16, Dora Young, 14, and Thelma Young, 11, who are making their home at Drumright Oklahoma with one of nine surviving brothers. One stepdaughter, Essie McMahan; and his father also survives.

Young was 39 years old and had been an employee of the Picher Company for several months. He was a machine man. Torrence was a machine helper who had been in the employee of the company less than a week.

According to miners, both men were working with their machine set next to a pillow and drilled into an unexploded charge which had been loaded the night before. Dan Hamilton, a shoveler, was working within twelve feet of the men when the explosion occurred about 9 o'clock.

Hamilton escaped injury with rocks flying all around him. The bodies of the two men were blown several feet and were badly mangled. Hamilton called Virgil Turner, pump man, and Clarence Niday, ground boss, and the miners' bodies were placed in an ambulance and sent to the morgue of the Todd undertaking company, of Picher.

Miami Record Herald · Nov 07 1919 · Pg 3 · Col 6

Picher Oklahoma, Nov 7. Vital statistics for October showed there were 26 births and 14 deaths during the month according to Grover R. Todd of Todd undertaking company at Picher, a vital statistician. Five deaths were result of mining accidents and included the following: Frank Tate and Frank Kennison, killed by a slab at the Sinden Mine; Walter Hughes, killed at the New Chicago Mine; Fred E. Young and Arthur L. Torrence, killed by an explosion at the Picher No. 6 Mine. Information in (Miami Record Herald, Miami Oklahoma, Oct 29, 1919)

Miami Daily Record Herald · Nov 07 1919 · Pg 3 · Col 6

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Miami Daily Record Herald · Nov 10 1919 · Pg 3 · Col 4

Mrs. Fred E. Young, whose husband was killed in the mines last week has gone to Los Angeles, California to make her home.

Miami Daily Record Herald · Mar 19 1920 · Pg 3 · Col 1

Seventy-two thousand dollars in damage suits were filed Saturday in the Ottawa county Oklahoma district court at Miami. One suit was for $50,000, another for $20,000 and the other for $2,000.

Gertrude Young filed suit against the Eagle Picher Lead Company for $50,000 as a result of injuries sustained by her husband and from which he later died. She alleges that her husband, Fred E. Young, to whom she was married on August 27, 1919, was killed in an explosion in one of the company's mines at Picher Oklahoma on October 28, 1919. He was a driller and his death was a result of negligence on the part of the company, she alleges.