FUNERAL SERVICES OVER MINER'S BODY WILL BE HELD THIS AFTERNOON. Funeral services over the body of Lewis Blankenship of Prosperity,who was killed in the Endeavor mine at Prosperity by a slab Friday morning,will be held in the Blankenship home,east of the Continental,at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon.The Rev. J.G. Hayes,pastor of the St. John's Methodist Episcopal church will conduct the services.Burial will be in the Carterville cemetery. Lewis Blankenship was 35 years old.He was married and the father of five children,the oldest of whom is 12 years.Two brothers,one of whom was working with him at the time the accident occurred,and another in Carthage,survive. At the inquest,which was held at 4 o'clock Friday afternoon,Coroner E.H. Baird returned a verdict of accidental death.The inquest was held in the morgue of the Webb City Undertaking company,and several witnesses,including the ground foreman of the mine and the roof trimmer,were examined. Fred E. Perry,a machine man at the Endeavor mine,was the first man examined by Mr.Baird.Perry stood within three feet of Blankenship at the time of the accident,and was struck on the shoulder and back by the falling rock.According to him, Blankenship had not a moment's warning.Blankenship and Perry were discussing some part of the work of the mine when a portion of the slab fell. Perry realized what had happened when the first rocks began to fall and yelled to Blankenship to run.His warning was to late,and almost at the instant it was given he saw Blankenship fall beneath the rock and dirt.A roof trimmer in the mine ,who quit the Wednesday,testified that as far as he knew the roof was in good condition.M.M.Blankenship ,brother of the dead man,told of working in the same mine where he helped his brother shovel.He said that he was within thirty feet of the slab when it fell and that he was filling the can while his brother went to the shaft with one previously filled. Lewis Blankenship was pushing a can of dirt when the force of the rock and dirt threw him to the ground.He passed under the slab which caused his death every time he went to the shaft with a can,as did other shovelers in that drift. (December 17,1911 Sunday Joplin News Herald)