Owen, Grant "Sam"

Picher Oklahoma, July 30 Grant "Sam" Owen, 52 years old, died at 5 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the Picher hospital at Picher, following injuries received at the Golden Rod Mill No. 4, where he was employed as crusher feeder. He was injured at 4 o'clock Monday afternoon when he became entangled in a drive wheel belt that had slipped from the pulley wheel. Owen was caught it is said, while he was passing the swinging belt to shut the machinery down to enable him to replace the belt.

The body was removed to the morgue of the Todd undertaking company, of Picher from where it will be sent to the Hurlburt undertaking company parlors, Joplin Missouri, for funeral at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon. Owen is survived by a wife, a son Patrick Owen, and daughter, Mrs. R. P. Smith, all of Castle Rock near Joplin; one brother, Albert C. Owen, a justice of the peace in Joplin; three sisters, Mrs. Emma Chew of Joplin, Mrs. L. S. Tucker, St. James, Mr. and Mrs. Alice Newton, of Tipton Ford Missouri

The Golden Rod Mining Company made the defendant in a suit to collect $10,000 damages filed in the Ottawa county Oklahoma District court by Nellie Owens, widow of Grant Owens, an employee of the company, who was killed at the plant July 28, 1919. According to the petition, the Company had failed to provide proper guards to safeguard the lives of employees who worked around the machinery. Owens received injuries while replacing a belt which, it is charged, resulted in his death.