Scheurich, Peter

Funeral services for Peter Scheurich, 55 year old veteran mill builder, who was fatally injured Saturday morning when he fell 30 feet from a mine elevator at the New York Mine of the Cortez King Brand Mine corporation, southeast of Picher Oklahoma, were to be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the First Methodist Episcopal church in Baxter Springs Kansas. The Rev. William A. Hubbard was to officiate, with burial in Mount Hope cemetery at Joplin Missouri.

Active pallbearers were to be D. S. Sims, Ralph E. Boyd, C. R. Shouse, B. F. McNeaner, Lon Misher and Marion Sullivan. Honorary pallbearers were to be Walter C. Harley, W. T. Landrum, Roy Chubb, W. E. Carter, Elam Hall and F. S. Starweather.

The accident, which severed Scheurich's spinal cord, occurred when a crossarm of a scaffold on the elevator gave way as he took hold of it. He fell backward, alighting on his back on a chat pile. Scheurich, who had lived in Baxter Springs Kansas for many years, had been employed by the Cortez-King Brand Company as chief carpenter for two years. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Flossie Scheurich; a daughter, Mrs. Alice Ritcheson of Baxter; two sons, John Scheurich of Fargo North Da-kota, and Paul Scheurich at home; five sisters, Mrs. Mary Striegel and Mrs. Lizzie Branhan of Joplin Missouri, Miss Kate Scheurich of DeWitt Arkansas, Mrs. Dora Slegel of Texas and Mrs. Clara Mulrenin of Monett Missouri; six brothers, Henry Scheurich of Baxter, and James Scheurich, William Scheurich, John Scheurich, George Scheurich and Matt Scheurich of Joplin Missouri.