Joy, Charles "Harley"

Picher Oklahoma, Aug. 4--Four hard rock lead and zinc miners were injured, one fatally, in a premature dynamite explosion in a drift of the Lawyers Mining Company, northwest of Picher, this afternoon.

The dead: L. Joy, 40 years old, of north of Joplin.

The injured: Charles Ladd, 33, Picher; John Newland, Picher and W. Moore, Picher.

Joy died in American hospital at Picher where he was taken in a Todd ambulance, at 3 o'clock. He was covered by falling boulders and was mutilated by flying debris. Joy was employed as a machineman. His body is at the Todd morgue at Picher pending arrangements for the funeral. He was married and leaves a family residing fourteen miles north of Joplin.

The explosion occurred when Ladd was loading a round of shot preparatory to blasting. Ladd, the most seriously injured of the other three, probably will lose his eyesight. He also received severe cuts, bruises and mutilations about the face and shoulders. He is in the American hospital.

Newland, employed as a roof trimmer, was released from the hospital after being treated for bruises and cuts. Moore, a machine helper, received a dislocated shoulder. He also was released from the hospital.

Picher Oklahoma, Aug. 4 Four hard rock lead and zinc miners were injured, one fatally, by a premature explosion this afternoon at the Lawyers Mine, northeast of Picher Oklahoma. L. Joy, 40 years old, whose home was 14 miles north of Joplin Missouri, died at the American hospital at Picher shortly after the blast. Charles Ladd, 33, who resides near the mine, suffered serious injuries which may cost him his eyesight. He also received severe cuts and bruises about the face. He is at the American hospital. John Newland and W. Moore, both of Picher Oklahoma, were less seriously injured.

Ladd, who was employed as powder man, was loading a round of holes. Joy, who as employed as machine man, was knocked down and covered with dirt and boulders, his body being badly mutilated.

Newland, a roof trimmer, was released from the hospital after receiving treatment as was Moore, the machine helper, who was treated for a dislocated shoulder. Newland is suffering from deafness as a result of the violent concussion.

The injured men were taken to the hospital in a Todd ambulance from Picher. The body of Mr. Joy lies at the Todd Mortuary awaiting funeral arrangements. He was married, but no more information regarding his relatives was available tonight.

Picher Oklahoma, Aug 6 Funeral services for Charles "Harley" Joy, 39 years old, who died at a local hospital Saturday afternoon as the result of injuries received earlier in the day in an accident at the Lawyer's Mine, will be held at the Galesburg schoolhouse near his home, 14 miles north of Joplin Missouri, at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. The Rev. Jesse Weaver will officiate. Burial will be in Weaver cemetery. The body will be removed from the Todd mortuary at Picher this afternoon to the family home. Besides the widow, Mrs. Myrtle Joy, surviving are four children, Lillian Gaynell Joy, 13 years old; Madge Lenora Joy, 11, Leonard Lincoln Joy, 10, and Bruce Eugene Joy, 6; his mother, Mrs. Mary Humphrey, residing northwest of Picher; five sisters, Mrs. Lulu Jameson, in California; Mrs. Ethel Lamb and Mrs. Leona Chesser, of Bird City Kansas; Mrs. Bessie Connor of Tulsa, and Mrs. Vada Storey of Seminole Oklahoma, and a brother, Ira Joy, northwest of Picher.