Conner, William Franklin

Powerless to give assistance, miners from two shifts, late yesterday, watched William Franklin Conner, 6 years old, fall from a coal wagon and plunge between the wagon box and the inside of a moving wheel, to meet with injuries that caused his death, ten minutes later. The boy was on the seat with his father, J. H. Conner, a teamster, who lives near the Federal Lead and Zinc Company's mine, two miles south of Picher Oklahoma. The accident occurred at the Federal Mine. As it was time to change shifts, miners from both day and night shifts were shedding tears at the boy's misfortune as an ambulance arrived a few minutes later to take the boy to the Picher hospital. The Conner boy had frequented the mine on a great many occasions and had grown to be a favorite with the miners. The father did not succeed in halting his team after the boy fell, until the wheel made several revolutions, which almost tore the right ear from his son's head. The boy was picked up in an unconscious condition and never regained consciousness. He died at the hospital at 2 o'clock Tuesday morning.