WORKMAN LOST LIFE IN YAMPA MINE ACCIDENT
John L. Davis was caught under wheels of mine car and suffered injuries from which he died in the Steamboat Hospital
John L. DAVIS, who died Friday afternoon at the Steamboat hospital from injuries in a mine accident, was buried in the Steamboat Springs cemetery Sunday afternoon.
The funeral ceremonies were conducted by the Rev. Hardesty at the Methodist church, where a large number of people had gathered. Mrs. Ted Long sang a solo, "The Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" and the first and last verses of two hymns selected by Mrs. DAVIS were sung by the choir - "Guide Me, Oh, Thou Great Jehovah," and "There is a Wideness in God's Mercy".
The pallbearers, who came from Milner, were J. HARP, W. LITTEL, Robert McWILLIAMS, J. BEAL, E. E. SHOEMAKER.
John L. DAVIS, who but recently came from Grand Junction, was working in the Yampa Coal mine in Curtis gulch near Milner. At 8:30 o'clock Thursday morning, he was driving a mule bringing out two cars leaded with coal. On a grad the sprags on the car wheels broke, causing the cars to run up onto the mule. The chains came loose and the man fell. He was dragged along for a space until his body got under the cars. It took sixteen men to lift the three-ton weight from the injured man. He was brought hastily to the Steamboat hospital, but was too seriously injured to recover, and died at four o'clock that afternoon.
Mr. DAVIS leaves a wife, a little daughter and a step-daughter seventeen years old. Mrs. DAVIS had made arrangements to board the men who worked at the mine, and Thursday was to have been her opening day. Her plans now are indefinite. Mrs. DAVIS is an accomplished woman. She taught school for several years and has been an active worker in the Methodist church.
(Published in The Steamboat Pilot (Steamboat Springs, CO), November 26, 1924.)
WORKMAN LOST LIFE IN YAMPA MINE ACCIDENT
John L. Davis was caught under wheels of mine car and suffered injuries from which he died in the Steamboat Hospital
John L. DAVIS, who died Friday afternoon at the Steamboat hospital from injuries in a mine accident, was buried in the Steamboat Springs cemetery Sunday afternoon.
The funeral ceremonies were conducted by the Rev. Hardesty at the Methodist church, where a large number of people had gathered. Mrs. Ted Long sang a solo, "The Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" and the first and last verses of two hymns selected by Mrs. DAVIS were sung by the choir - "Guide Me, Oh, Thou Great Jehovah," and "There is a Wideness in God's Mercy".
The pallbearers, who came from Milner, were J. HARP, W. LITTEL, Robert McWILLIAMS, J. BEAL, E. E. SHOEMAKER.
John L. DAVIS, who but recently came from Grand Junction, was working in the Yampa Coal mine in Curtis gulch near Milner. At 8:30 o'clock Thursday morning, he was driving a mule bringing out two cars leaded with coal. On a grad the sprags on the car wheels broke, causing the cars to run up onto the mule. The chains came loose and the man fell. He was dragged along for a space until his body got under the cars. It took sixteen men to lift the three-ton weight from the injured man. He was brought hastily to the Steamboat hospital, but was too seriously injured to recover, and died at four o'clock that afternoon.
Mr. DAVIS leaves a wife, a little daughter and a step-daughter seventeen years old. Mrs. DAVIS had made arrangements to board the men who worked at the mine, and Thursday was to have been her opening day. Her plans now are indefinite. Mrs. DAVIS is an accomplished woman. She taught school for several years and has been an active worker in the Methodist church.
(Published in The Steamboat Pilot (Steamboat Springs, CO), November 26, 1924.)
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