Knowlton, Paul

Paul Knowlton, a young hard rock lead and zinc miner who lived at Commerce Oklahoma, died shortly after 1 o'clock Friday afternoon as a result of a fall of nearly eighty-five feet in the shaft of the Dorothy G. Mine at noon Friday.

Knowlton had been working in the upper level of the mine in the morning and was going to the top, when the rope apparently broke and he fell to the lower level. The tub [can] fell with him. He was rushed to the Baptist Hospital in Miami, but was beyond the help of physicians and died a short time after arriving here. He was badly injured about the head, and was suffering from injuries of the lungs and other internal organs. Knowlton was 21 years old. His father, Perry Knowlton, also lives at Commerce Oklahoma, and he has two sisters living in Joplin Missouri. His mother has been dead for a number of years. He has an uncle, Burke Coleman, and several other relatives living in Miami.

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P. W. Knowlton, William Knowlton, Marier Lockhart and Daisy Lockhart, father, brother and sisters of Paul Perry Knowlton, who died of injuries received in an accident which occurred while he was employed as a shoveler in the mine and, while going from an upper to a lower level, the can in which he was riding ...missing information... feet, sustaining injuries, it is alleged, which later resulted in his death.