Smith, William Andrew

Age2

Eagle-Picher Mining Company

Picher Oklahoma, Sep 24 Williams Andrew Smith, 2 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Smith, Whitebird addition, died shortly before 3 o'clock this afternoon at a local hospital as the result of injuries received several hours earlier when he was run over by an ore train of the Eagle-Picher Mining Company in the vicinity of his home. The child crawled through a fence at the Smith home and stepped in front of the train before the engineer could stop the locomotive, trainmen said. The child's right arm was severed from the body and his right shoulder and side were badly injured. The boy was rushed to the Picher hospital in an ambulance of the Todd undertaking company, of Picher.

The ore train was being operated between the Hunt Mine, northeast of Picher Oklahoma, and field shafts. Funeral services will be held at the chapel of the Todd undertaking company, of Picher at 2 o"clock Sunday afternoon. The Rev. Billie Bain, pastor of the Baptist church, will officiate. Burial will be in the Hillcrest cemetery at Galena Kansas.