Lewis, Andy Carmon

Picher Oklahoma, Dec. 29 Andy Carmon Lewis, 18 years old, a rope-rider at the West Side Mine, a hard rock lead and zinc mine, located north of Picher and operated by the Eagle Picher Mining and Smelting Company, was killed, perhaps instantly, at 6 am today when he came in contact with a power wire, in some manner, while working in the ground. The body was taken in a Durnil ambulance of Picher to the Picher hospital at Picher, where doctors, hospital attendants and ambulance men worked for two hours in an attempt to revive the man without avail.

Just how the accident happened cannot be determined until witnesses are examined, officials said after the accident. Lewis was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Lewis of Commerce Oklahoma. Besides the parents he is survived by four sisters, Mrs. Ruby Hale and Mrs. Goldie Gunnels, Whitebird addition, Picher; Mrs. Anna Pottorf, Commerce, and Mrs. Farah Cole, North Miami Oklahoma; two brothers, Johnny Lewis and Benny Lewis, at home, and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Lewis of near Ottawa Oklahoma.

Funeral services will be held at 2:30 Wednesday afternoon at the Assembly of God church in Commerce. The Rev. C. J. Brown is to officiate. Burial will be in Williams cemetery, three miles west of Miami, under direction of Durnil funeral home, Picher.