Paul, Baxter Lee

Picher Oklahoma - Baxter Lee Paul, 40 year old shoveler at the Goodeagle Mine, southwest of Cardin Oklahoma, was killed instantly at 8:30 o'clock this morning when a slab fell from the roof of the drift in which he was working. The slab pinned Paul to the ground, crushing his head and chest. Although breathing had stopped miners rushed him up the shaft and to a waiting Durnil ambulance, it was not until examination at American hospital at Picher, that physicians pronounced him dead.

Paul had just gone to work and was in his drift shoveling when the slab struck him. He lived at Galena Kansas. Survivors include his wife, Beulah Paul; a 3 year old son, Eugene Paul; his mother, Mrs. Ella Paul of Baxter Springs Kansas, and three sisters, Mrs. Helen Britton of Joplin Missouri, Mrs. Ila King of Picher and Mrs. Bernice Jennings of Joplin. The body is being held at the Durnil funeral home at Picher pending final arrangements. The Goodeagle Mine is an independent property started just last year. The operators could not be reached for details of the accident at press time.

A suit asking a total $3,100 in damages was filed in district court here today by Beulah Paul, widow and administrator of Baxter Paul, 39 year old hard rock lead and zinc miner killed when a slab buried him in a mine near Picher Oklahoma, June 4. Defendant is the Ottawa Mining Company, operator of the mine. The suit alleges negligence on the part of the mining company and asks $2,650 for this cause. In a second cause, the plaintiff seeks $450 as compensation for pain suffered by the miner following the accident.