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MINER KILLED IN CATHERINE MINE

    Floyd Underwood was killed in a mud slide at the Catherine mines last Thursday night and rescuers were unable to reach his body until Sunday morning, when it was recovered.

    Thursday night while Marion Fortner and Mr. Underwood were at work a mud slide came from the roof of the drift where they were at work and caught them. Fortner made a rush through the mud for the mouth of the drift and finally succeeded in working his way through the mud and slush to a place of safety, but he said his unfortunate companion climbed up on a high place in the drift and remarked that the end had come and they would have to die there together, but he was determined that he would not die without an effort and his efforts were successful. He said that in coming out he noticed a mule and a cart covered in the mud, and later the mule was found in its stable, and no one knows how it ever got out of the mud.

    In recovering the body the men had had to use a mud boat, and when they found it it was entirely covered in the mud, except that his feet were sticking out and he looked as natural as could be without a cut or bruise on him and only suffocation caused death. --- Fredericktown Tribune.

[Lead Belt News/Flat River, St. Francois County, Mo./Friday, December 31, 1915] 

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