OCR Text |
Show MINE TOLL TAKES WOMAN'S THREE SONS Among the scores of women and children who waited anxiously at the mine portal for news of their loved ones was Mrs. Ella Turner, 55. Three of the five victims of the Peerless mine explosion were her sons and a fourth, a son-in-law. William Curtis is a son by previous marriage, while Clement and Danny Turner were sons by second marriage. marri-age. Lester Curtis married one of Mrs. Turner's daughters. Patiently the anxious woman waited wait-ed for the sight of her boys. "They've just taken out one of the boys and he is all right, Mrs. Turner," Turn-er," some one told the woman and her face brightened in the dusk that settled around picturesque Castle Gate Rock. A few minutes later word came that her three sons and son-in-law were victims. The aged woman collapsed col-lapsed and the cries of the 4 wives were heard above the crowd. Nine grandchildren, a bereaved daughter and three grief - stricken daughter-in-laws were all that she had to re-mind her, as she lay prostrate pros-trate at her home, of the happier days when her life and family were young. Price Sun. |