Kern County Obituaries

Carl Eklund

Submitted by Don Stowell; 13 Feb 2008

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Source Unknown; 16 Feb 1939

Two Men Are Killed In Yellow Aster Mine
A verdict of Industrial Accident was returned at the inquest in the death of Carl 
Eklund, 50 and Don Morrison, 42, workmen at the Yellow Aster mine in the Rand 
District. The two men were working for the Macco Construction Company, drilling
in the glory hole below a huge rock, preparing to set a charge to blast it, a small rock 
slipped from above, striking the larger one and dislodged it, causing it to fall on the 
men. Eklund was killed instantly and Morrison died at the Randsburg hospital shortly 
after. The accident happened February fifth. .