Mooney, Edward H.

Picher Oklahoma, May 15 Ed Mooney, who was injured last Tuesday in the Underwriters Mine near St. Louis Oklahoma by falling from a boulder tramway, is reported today to be in a critical condition, and small hopes are held out for his recovery.

Picher Oklahoma, June 2.-- Edward Mooney died at 3:30 this morning in a hospital in Picher where he had been unconscious most of the time for the last three weeks, following an accident at the mine of the Underwriters Mine near St. Louis Oklahoma where he fell from a boulder tramway to a concrete floor about 40 feet below sustaining a skull fracture and several other injuries. Mooney was about 55 years old and is survived by a wife and large family of children at Galena Kansas, and Duenwig, Missouri, two brothers in Picher and one sister at Douthat Oklahoma.

Mrs. Mooney has been with her husband most of the time since he was injured. The body was taken to the morgue of the Todd undertaking company, of Picher. Funeral services will be conducted at the residence at Galena Tuesday afternoon at 2 and burial will be at the Lowell Kansas cemetery.

Picher Oklahoma, Jun 4--Funeral services for Edward Mooney were held this afternoon at 2 from the family residence in Galena Kansas, and burial was in the Lowell Kansas cemetery. Mooney was 52 years old and died Monday morning following injuries three weeks before when he fell from a boulder tramway at the Underwriters Land Company Mine near St. Louis Oklahoma. He is survived by a wife and eleven children: Jess Mooney, Commerce; Mrs. Alfred Smith, Douthat Oklahoma and the following from Galena Kansas: Ferry Mooney, Wesley Mooney, Earle Mooney, Erma Mooney, Lorraine Mooney, Berldia Mooney, Ruth Mooney, Bertha Mooney and Louise Mooney. His mother, two brothers, George Mooney and James Mooney, and two sisters, Mrs. A. A. Dennis and Mrs. James Stanley, also reside in Galena, where Mooney had lived during most of his life.

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The Underwriter's Land Company is made the defendant in a suit for $25,000 damages filed Saturday morning in the Ottawa county Oklahoma District Court by Mrs. Monta Mooney of Galena Kansas. According to the petition, Mrs. Mooney is the widow of the late Edward H. Mooney, 52 years old, who it is claimed, lost his life as a result of an accident which occurred on one of the Underwriter Company's properties located in the Picher Oklahoma field. According to the petition, Mooney had several times warned the foreman of the mine in which he was employed that the railing on an elevated tramway was loose and in a dangerous condition. The company neglected to repair the loose railing, according to the petition.

May 12, 1919, while pushing a car of boulders over the tramway, the car veered into the railing and Mooney was thrown to a trough about eighteen feet below. He sustained injuries which resulted in his death on June 2, it is alleged. He was the father of eleven children, whose ages range from 26 years to four months.

Picher Oklahoma, Feb 5.--Mrs. Mattie Price, mother of 15 children, 12 of whom are living, died at the Picher hospital at 6 this morning. She had been ill for several days at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Boner, and was removed to the hospital yesterday. Mrs. Price was about 43 years old. Her first husband, Ed Mooney, was killed in an accident at one of the Underwriters Land Company mines several months ago. Her present husband, J. Price, and her children, reside on a farm in the Five Mile district. The body was taken to the parlors of the Todd undertaking company, of Picher to await funeral arrangements.