Reed, James S.

Picher Oklahoma, Dec 18 James Reed, a mill man at the Pioneer Mines, was dragged into a line shaft while oiling machinery in the mill at 8:30 o'clock Sunday night and was critically injured. Reed's had facial injuries and his side was injured, and his left leg fractured in two places. He was taken to the Picher hospital in Todd's ambulance of Picher.

Picher Oklahoma, Dec 26 James Reed died at the Picher hospital Monday afternoon from injuries received in an accident at the Picher Mine recently. He is survived by his wife and seven children at Cardin Oklahoma. Funeral services will be held from the Apostolic Faith church, Cardin, at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. Burial will be in the G.A.R. Cemetery, Miami Oklahoma.

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A suit to obtain $30,000 damages was filed in District court at Miami Tuesday by Mrs. Flora Reed against the Montezuma Mining Company, as the result of an accident in a concentration plant near Cardin Oklahoma on December 17, 1922, which is alleged to have caused the death of James S. Reed, husband of the plaintiff. According to the petition, Mrs. Reed charges that her husband was caught by an unguarded line shaft and pulley in the Montezuma Mill and thrown to the floor with such force as to inflict injuries which caused his death a week later. Mrs. Reed states in the petition that her husband was the sole support of herself and three minor children. In 1999, Ralph Reed, related to the above miner, stated that he has the court papers with Mrs. Reed settling out of court in the amount of $3,500.00. Two of the miner children were Chelora Reed born in 1914 and Ruth Reed born in 1911.