TWO UNDERGROUND MINERS
MEET ACCIDENTAL DEATH

Richard (Dick) Newman, underground miner, was injured at Federal shaft No. 1 by the explosion of ten sticks of dynamite to such an extent that he died before reaching the surface. The explosion occurred on Sunday morning at 3:10. Clark Beasley and three foreigners, Jno. Bess, Rollo Chepp and another whose name we were unable to obtain were also injured.

Mr. Beasley was hastily taken to a train and rushed to a St. Louis hospital but died on the way. The three foreigners were not seriously injured.

Coroner English empanelled a jury and held an inquest which rendered a verdict that the two men came to their death from an explosion, the cause of which is unknown.

Newman has been a resident of St. Francois County for the past fifteen years. He was about 45 years old, and leaves a wife and four children, also four sisters and two brothers. The brothers, John and Albert, live in Webb City. The sisters are Mrs. Jane Barnett of Webb City, Mrs. Buzzar and Miss Sallie Newman of Carterville, and Mrs. Oliver Pratte of Bonne Terre.

The funeral services were held at the Baptist church in Flat River by Rev. Carmichael. Interment was made in the Elvins cemetery.

Mr. Beasley had been a resident of St. Francois county for several years. He is survived by a wife and six small children. The funeral services were conducted by Reverend Wilson of Esther, the St. Francois K. of P. Lodge and I.O.O.F. assisting. Interment was made in the K. of P. cemetery at Farmington on Tuesday.

Published by the ST. FRANCOIS COUNTY RECORD, Elvins, St. Francois Co. MO, Friday, March 17, 1916.

MINE DISASTER

A premature explosion in the Federal mines at Flat River early Sunday morning killed a machine man named Beasley, fatally wounding another machine man, named Dick Newman, who died before medical aid reached him,and severely wounding three shovelers, all of whom are yet living, though frightfully maimed. The wounded men are all foreigners. Both dead men were Americans.

Dick Newman leaves a wife and several children to mourn their loss. It is such calamities as this that remind us that there is something apparently lacking in the safeguarding of the lives of miners, and yet there is a certain amount of carelessness on the part of the workers themselves, brought on largely by the sameness of their work, that allows their senses to become somewhat blunted to the dangers of their avocation. "Eternal vigilence" should be their watchword, and yet it seems impossible that some do not occasionally forget.

Published by the FARMINGTON TIMES, Farmington, St. Francois County, Missouri, Friday, March 17, 1916