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Linway, Joe

Age 25

Lucky Jew Mine

Miami News Record · Nov 10 1924 · Pg 3 · Col 2

Joe Linway, 25 years old, a ground man at the Lucky Jew Mine, had his left foot almost severed yesterday afternoon about 5:30 in an attempting to stop the hoisting machinery to prevent a can from crashing into the shive wheel. Linway happened to be in the derrick and was said to have been struck on the leg by a piece of the hoisting machinery. He was rushed to the Picher hospital, Picher Oklahoma, in the Todd ambulance. Efforts are being made by attending physicians to prevent amputation of the foot. Linway's home is at Westville, Missouri

Miami News Record · Nov 13 1924 · Pg 3 · Col 2

Picher Oklahoma, Nov. 13.--Joe Linway, 25 years old, a ground man at the Lucky Jew Mine, died at a local hospital last night from injuries received Sunday in attempting to stop the hoisting machinery. A piece of the machinery struck his left leg, almost severing the foot. Complications developed. Linway is survived by his wife and a twenty-month-old son, besides his parents and other relatives residing at Cleveland Ohio. The body is at the Todd undertaking parlor at Picher. Completion of funeral arrangements awaits the arrival of relatives.

Miami News Record · Nov 14 1924 · Pg 3 · Col 1

No funeral arrangements have been made for Joe Linway, who died at a local hospital Wednesday night from injuries sustained at the Lucky Jew Mine Sunday.

Miami News Record · Nov 16 1924 · Pg 4 · Col 4

The funeral of Joe Linway, 25 year old, who died at a local hospital Wednesday night from injuries received at the Lucky Jew Mine last Sunday will be held from the chapel of the Todd undertaking company, of Picher Oklahoma this afternoon at 1. The Rev. Wesley Post, pastor of the Union church, will conduct the services and burial will be in the Oak Hill cemetery at Galena Kansas.

Disclaimer: If you search for these articles somewhere else, searches should be done by date in the city of Miami Oklahoma. The clippings have "Miami Newspapers, Miami Oklahoma." The paper changed names several times making it difficult to search by title. Most of the Hard Rock Lead and Zinc Fatalities newspaper clippings are from the personal files of I. D. Hulvey, former powderman in the Picher mine and then owner of the Hulvey Insurance Agency.