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Marti Graham

Father And Children Buried In One Grave
Explosion on Anniversary of Witteville Disaster

Poteau, Okla. Jan 26 (Special) In separate caskets, but in one grave, the bodies of Frank Encoff and his two children, Cora, 16 years old and Arthur, 12 years old, who were killed by an explosion in the Columbia Coal company's mine at Witteville Thursday, were buried in Oakland cemetery today. The wife and mother of the three victims was unable to attend. She is ill. Dolly, 10 years old, another daughter, who also was injured in the explosion, is at home recovering.

The funeral of Ed McGregor, the shot firer, who was killed in the mine by the explosion, will take place here Sunday afternoon. The body will be buried in a lot adjoining the lot where the Encoffs were buried today.

A grim coincidence came to light today, when it became know that Thursday night's tragedy occurred on the fourteenth anniversary of an explosion in Yitteville (sic) mine No. 6, in which fourteen people were killed.

[NOTE: A check of the Daily Oklahoman, to which I have limited access, for the dates January 26-28 (all pages) 29-31 (p 1-3) found no mention of the previous explosion noted above.]

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