Pearson, Virgil

Picher Oklahoma, Jan 13--Virgil Pearson, 30 years old, a shoveler at the Woodchuck Mine, was crushed to death by a falling slab this morning shortly after 7:30 am. He had been at work only a few minutes when the accident occurred. Pearson was unmarried and his home was in Arkansas. He boarded at Cardin Oklahoma. The body is at the Todd undertaking parlor, at Picher. No funeral arrangements will be made until relatives are heard from.

The funeral of Virgil Pearson, a shoveler at the Woodchuck Mine, who was killed yesterday when caught beneath a falling slab, will be held tomorrow afternoon, Jan 15, 1924 at 2 pm. The Rev. C. O. Huff, pastor of the First Methodist church will officiate and burial will be in the G.A.R. Cemetery, Miami.