Messer, Charles Edward

Cardin Oklahoma, Feb 11 Charles Edward Messer, 36, a hard rock lead and zinc miner employed at the Manhattan Mine fell 160 feet from a tub this morning and was killed instantly. Messer fell headlong into the shaft the body alighting on head and shoulders. Messer leaves his wife and 14 month old daughter, who live near the Manhattan Mine. Another daughter by a former marriage, Mrs. Ethel Jackson, lives in Strafford Arkansas. Definite arrangements for funeral and burial had not been made at noon today.

Picher Oklahoma, Feb. 14 Funeral services for Charles Edward Messer, who was killed in an accident at the Manhattan Mine Tuesday, were held at the residence at Cardin Oklahoma at 3 o'clock this afternoon. The Rev. J. T. Walsh officiated.

A suit for $50,000 damages for the death of C. E. Messer, killed in a mine accident at the Manhattan Mine, February 12, 1919, was filed by William J. Messer and seven other heirs, against John A. Skinner, said to be the operator of the mine.