Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1898-11-05
A. l. HUFF KILLED.
Fell roo Feet to Almost Instant
Death Just Before Noon
Saturday.

prominent mine operators OF
the entire mining district fell
into one of his mines on the Battle
field lease, southwest of town, Sat
urday forenoon about ll:30 O'Clock,
distance of 108 feet, to almost In.
slant death. The facts In regard TO
the accident are about as follows:
A. L. Huff was the owner of sev-
eral good paying mines, and 1t was
his usual custom to visit them each
day when well to see that every.
thing moved along in proper shape.
He had been complaining of being
bilious and'feeling very dizzy head
ed for the past two weeks, and II Ia
proba BILE that to this can be attrib-
uted the cause of his death. He
had gone out to the mines about
7:3O Saturday morning, being his
first trip to the mines since Tuesday
of last week. He worked about the
consolidated plant considerable
portion of the morning In company
with Fred Gerster, the jig tender.
aud the latter says that 1t was just
about ILLS when Mr.. Huff left the
plant for the mine where he met
his death, about 100 yards distant,
where he lighted large torch and
prepared to 60 down TO examine
the underground workings. Nobody
seems to know just how he came to
fall in the shaft, as nobody was
near except the hoisterman, Dave
Lewis, who was on the platform
about 10 feet above where HUFF was
standing. The tub had just come
up. was dumped and the holster
man glanced down as he started
the tub back and saw Huff falling
headfirst into the shaft. With light
ning-like rapidly he shot down the
shaft, a distance of 106 feet, until
within about feet of the bottom
and near the mouth of the drift,
where he landed OH his abdomen
across 4x8 scantling that had been
used to make a shed to protect the
miners from water that dripped
from the pumps. The left side of
his skull near the ear was crushed,
and the left arm broken just above
the elbow, the left leg broken near
the hip, his left side was badly in.
jured and the conclusion of the fall
was so great that both shoes were
jerked off his feet. He was discov-
cred by one of the men hanging
limp and almost lifeless across the
4x6 timber, and was Immediately
hoisted out aud Drs. John Allen
and f. B. Payne telephoned for and
were on the scene in few minutes,
but II was seen that little If any
thing could be done for him and he
was taken to his home on South
Main street abont 1890, where he
died Just an hour later without ever
having regained consciousness for
a moment.
All was done that could be by
the hands of a loving wife, parents,
and sympathizing friends, but the
souls temporal dwelling had re-
ceived too great a shock and the
lamp of life went out in his prime
of manhood, TO shine no more upon
this earth forever.
If Arthur L. Huff had lived until
the 18th of next January he would
have been forty years of age
Three years ago. on the 10th of this
month he was united in marriage
at Baxter, to Miss Pearl Schmuck
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Gabriel
Schmuck, who moved to Galens
shortly after their daughters mar
riage. BY this union little girI
was born, now more than yeaI
old.
Mr.. Huff lived at Baxter when hi
first came to this country. He wat
from Albion, N. Y, and remained
at Baxter about Eve years. He hat
lived in Galena five or six years
He carried a $1,000 policy ia the A
o. U. w., which lie believed to be al
the insurance he had. A brother
E. C. Huff, lived at Erie, Pa, being
engaged in newspaper work there
Mr.. Huff was a good man, and hi
taking away has cast shadow o
gloom over the entire city.
May God in his tenderness and
mercy look down with compassion
on the stricken wife, father, mother
and fatherless babe.-Galena Times
Few men in this country are bet
ter or more favorable known to tn,
drug and medicine trade than Mr.
+. ]. Schall, buyer in the proprie
tary medicine department of TIT
Meyers Bros Drug Co., St. Louis
He says: my boy came home frou
school with his hand badly lacera
ted and bleeding, and suffering
great pain. ! dressed the wouut
and applied Chamberlain's Paii
Balm, freely; all pain ceased. ant
in a remarkably short time.
healed without leaving a scar. Fo
wounds, sprains, dwellings ant