Lake, Oscar

Oscar Lake, a young man 20 years old, was killed at the hard rock lead and zinc Clary and Shults Mine, northeast of Galena Kansas Wednesday morning. He picked up an old piece of gas pipe that contained powder and attempted to straighten it. The fact that the pipe contained powder [dynamite] was not known. On pounding it with a rock the powder was exploded. The young man lived only a few hours.