Hale, Joseph 1856-1914

HALE, TOBIAS

Posted By: Sherry Faidley Healy (email)
Date: 10/26/2012 at 20:24:00

Newton (IA) Daily News, Oct. 14, 1914 page 1

Dies as a Result of Accident

Joseph Hale who lived a half a mile south of the fair ground died yesterday evening about five o’clock.

A week or ten days ago Mr. Hale was helping fill some trenches it is said.

While he was holding a scraper, it is said, and when the scraper went too deep the team pulled the scraper on over taking Mr. Hale with it.

The muscles on his left side and in his arm and leg also in his right arm. They began to swell at once and it was not long before the skin on his body was drawn as tight as a drum head.

The cause of his death is not really known but it is reported that the swelling of the muscles in his body may have affected the action of the heart. However the muscles in the body were so badly swollen that it was practically impossible to diagnose the case, except as to the swelling.

Mr. Hale is survived by his wife and seven children, six of whom are at home. The oldest Mrs. Alfred Tobias, lived in Colfax. Of those at home four are boys and two girls. One girl is seven years and the other eleven. The ages of the boys are five, fifteen, seventeen and twenty-one.

Mr. Hale and his family came from the South of Wales seven years ago and located in Colfax. He was a coal miner. He was fifty four years of age and when they came to Newton a little less than three years ago he found other employment.

The funeral will be held at the Palo Alto church tomorrow, Thursday afternoon at o’clock.