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Show MINE VICTIM'S RITES THURSDAY Funeral services for George Alexander Skinner, 40, American Ameri-can Fork, were held Thursday at I 1 p.m. in American Fork Second ward LDS chapel by Elijah Chip : man, bishop. Mr. Skinner was killed in an accident Saturday at 10:30 a.m. at U. S. Smelting. Refining & Mining Co. mine at Bingham. Mr. Skinner was making room room tor additional set "1 tim bers in the shaft when a run of fine muck slid down and trapped trap-ped him, according to G. W. Spen- ! eer, metal mine inspector for Utah. The miner called for help ' but was completely covered with the' muck before any aid could reach him- Other miners worked for approximately 45 minutes to rescue the victim and efforts to revive him with artificial respiration respir-ation were abandoned after two hours when company doctors pronounced him dead. Upon investigation Mr. Spencer Spen-cer termed the disaster as an unavoidable accident and the most unusual he has ever seen in a mine. No marks or scratches of any kind were on the body, indicating death was caused purely pure-ly by suffocation. The victim had worked in the Bingham mines for the past 20 years and at the time tf his death was president of the International In-ternational Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers local No. 2. A son of John Stephan and Emma Humphrey Skinner, he was born Nov. 20, 1906 at Noun-an, Noun-an, Ida. He married Eva Anderson Ander-son of American Fork Sept. 2, 1932 in Salt Lake LDS temple. The couple made their home in Bingham for several years before be-fore moving to American Fork in 1938. |