Smith, Ernest A.

Ernest Smith, age 16, a young hard rock lead and zinc miner, was critically injured at the Lawyers Mine near Treece Kansas, at 11:45 o'clock Monday morning when he fell 20 feet and lit on his head on a pile of rock. His chin and nose were fractured and his skull probably fractured. He was taken to the Picher hospital at Picher Oklahoma for emergency treatment and had not regained consciousness early this afternoon.

Picher Oklahoma, Mar 30.--Ernest A. Smith, 16 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Smith of Monarch Kansas, died at the Picher hospital, Picher at 2 Monday afternoon, following injuries received shortly before noon at the hard rock lead and zinc mine of the Lawyers, Mining Company, west of Treece Kansas, when he fell from a tramway a distance of about fifty feet, landing head-first on a pile of boulders. Todd's ambulance was called and took him to the Picher hospital, Picher Oklahoma. Funeral services will be conduced from the home of an uncle A. A. Smith, at Reeds Missouri, Tuesday afternoon. Besides his parents he is survived by four brothers, Clyde Smith, Ray Smith, Earl Smith, and Ralph Smith, all of Monarch Kansas.