STEPHEN PACK
Stephen Pack Is Killed Monday
Death Caused by Rock Fall In Mines
Stephen Pack, 31 years old miner of the North East Coal Company’s
mine at Thealka, died in a local Hospital Tuesday afternoon from
injuries suffered in a slate fall Monday afternoon.
Funeral services will be held this afternoon (Thursday) at 2:30 at
the Church at Thealka.
Burial will be made in the Thealka Cemetery under the direction of
Jones Funeral Home.
Mr. Pack had had fourteen years of experience in the mines.
According to the officials of the mine, at the time of the accident
Pack was working in a ten man crew that was loading the first cut
off an entry where the top had been brushed. When the coal had been
under cut, the immediate roof came between the pan line and the
face when the rock broke off. Pack was pinned between the conveyor
and the rock.
Deceased is survived by his wife, the former Lizzie Hampton,
daughter of Harry Hampton and four small children.
The Pack family has the sympathy of all who knew them as the death
angel has been a frequent visitor in there home in recent months,
both Stephen’s mother and sister having passed on in that time.
Paintsville Herald
Thursday
February 17, 1944
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