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moralamily■ernedi t heyt lastinchesvewit-stand -ie told West o w as\ with. thebright,*•1 intohank,ipt tole, ac-Bea v W Ped m-hod yi told *d ailhearts o ns. pbeit.[hters,, MrsfKoithandJl* y 11#1 ni iv C* *ildi end the a 1 arte 1 m t ' lt;an oral r and a Fu e a! plans ate incomplete.Blasting ‘Freak’ Kills2 Winding Gulf MinersTwo Kale iKh County miners were k 11 led instantly about 4 40l m Tuesday when struck by rock following a blast m the Wind-• og (Iu 1 f Colleries No 4 mine at Eiffe Branch, SuperintendentL. V Summers revealed todas*.. Iff IThey were identified as Eldon C. Thompson, 32. Epperly, andCha lev William Shrewsbury 21. Winding Gulf,Summers said the men. who went into U*e mine with thesecond shift a! 3 p m . were killed a* the working face of the mine.(Ill A( CIDKN I Ot ( I KHI l, S an:m h i . . a rockfrom the blast set off at the face bv other miners struck them a*» t e b w. Both men died instantly.Sun m is railed the accident a “freak.” explaining the menhad he* n warned by othi r miners that they were ready to set off* e\pI«»m\« and that they apparently thought tb*e\ were undercoverNone of the Other n iners was injured, Sunni, said adding jat thlt; accident occurred approximately three miles from thenil two MEN • to i f Mb - G Hawaiian Islands.THE BOD! vu;i be in u 1 to thehome of his mother at p.m. today and funeral services will be heldoh «• wriere they \\ erelead by the companytr.e mine empronounced phvsuian. Dr. D F FalknerThompson, a native of Winding at .'I p m, Thursday at the Epperlywife Gulfirviven bvhis mother.Mrs. Loua H, Thompson, wife ofthe late Lai \ A Thompson: his v*. ife, Mrs V iola Eh/abeth Southern Thompson; two lt;,1 «*$ aldme and Dons, and a ion, Wayne, ail a’ home; three bthers, Lacy and Harry Thompson, both of Epperlv, and Burdiss Thompson. Ghent, two sistersMeth list with the Rev,Ronald Kennedy officiatingBurial will be in Sunset Me-moriaA 1s. Mildred MeKinnev. Mullenla lYrrorismkgrue»thevjndavraturetow n tional Fuller small • rovefusionwhen[lot her *sed a midst, road pniDC.the mob disbanded but within * matter of hours there rame re ports from a Negro community two miles west of the sheriffs position that white men were again on the move firing Negrohouses Three of the ramshacklehomes were burnedThere was a quick reaction from the governor. The guardwas reinton ed twinging it*strength up to 300.With swift precision the guaidsmen. mostly combat veterans and old timers, set up a headquarters and organized patrol* to prowl the town in search of trouble.Park under the direction of William.* Funeral Home of Sola ugh ters , nhia.Shrewsbury, a native of Coal »- ('its ^ as .1 son of Watson and Maxine Shrewsbury* Winding* G jBe ides his parents he is survived by his wife* Bettj Richmond Shrewsbury; three* brothers, .James ami Walter Shrewsbury, Coal City, and Earl Shrewsbury, Lyn-win; six sisters, Mrs Easter Goff, Saltvillc, Va, Mis Lillian Smith, Coal City, Mrs. Sadie Turner, Winding Gull, and Anise, Virginia and Ellen* ail at home. He it also survived by his maternal grandmother, Mrs Mettie Warner, Coal City, and his paternal grandmother, Mrs. Sarah Shrewsbury,HD BODY will be moved Ihis home at 5 p m. today where funeral services will be held at 2 p m. Thursday w ith the Rev. Woodrow Lusk and the Rev. Russell Pennington officiatingBurial will follow in the CoalCity Cemetery under the direction of Williams Funeral Home.
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Beckley Raleigh Register
Beckley, West Virginia, US
Wed, Jul 20, 1949
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