Stills, Claude L.

The grim reaper late yesterday entered the Blue Bonnett Mine, east of Picher Oklahoma, to separate twin brothers who had lived and worked together all their 24 years of life. Both men were shoveling side by side in the mine when a falling slab caught them. Claude L. Stills met instant death while Clyde Stills was seriously, but not dangerously, injured. The latter is at the American hospital at Picher, where physicians say he will recover. The funeral of Claude Stills will be held at 10 am tomorrow at the chapel of the Todd undertaking company, of Picher. Burial will be at Coffeyville Kansas, his former home. A widow and three small children, besides other relatives, survive.

The two brothers were working only a few feet apart when the slab broke loose from the roof. Claude, who received the brunt of the blow, suffered a crushed skull and chest. Clyde's head and face were bruised and his chest was injured. Both men lived at Hockerville Oklahoma since entering the employ of the Blue Bonnett Mine. They came from Coffeyville, where they had lived most of their lives.

Short funeral services for Claude L. Stills, 24 years old, who was killed at the Blue Bonnett Mine Monday, were held at the chapel of the Todd undertaking company, of Picher Oklahoma at 10 am. Final services will be held at Coffeyville Kansas, at 2 pm this afternoon. Burial will be in the Coffeyville cemetery. The condition of Clyde Stills, who was badly injured by the falling slab, which killed his twin brother is considerably improved. He is at the American Hospital at Picher. He was injured about the head and chest.

In a suit filed Tuesday in Ottawa county Oklahoma district court at Miami against the Amalgamated Lead and Zinc Smelter corporation, Mrs. Rose Stills, widow of Claude Stills, 23 year old shoveler who was killed March 16 at the Blue Bonnett Mine east of Picher Oklahoma, when struck by a falling slab, asks $25,000 damages for her husband death.