Wallis, Alfred - d. 1914

WALLIS

Posted By: Diana Wagner
Date: 9/9/2021 at 16:56:38

Alfred Wallis, 26 years of age, employed as a digger in the C.C.C. Company’s mine, No. 9, was instantly killed last Tuesday morning by falling slate – a piece weighing about three tons striking him on the back of his head as he was in the act of adjusting a prop to protect himself from just such a casualty. It crushed him to the ground in a position which broke his neck, back and both legs, the bone from one leg protruding from the flesh.
The dead man was an Englishman who had been in America less than a year, and leaves a wife and two children, one of the children less than two months old. Mrs. Wallis was the widow of Alfred Wallis’ brother, who lost his life in a mine explosion in England, about 2 ½ years ago. He was a quiet, sober workman of athletic build, industrious and a loving husband and father.
The body was brought to Colfax and the coroner came from Newton and conducted the inquest at Cutter’s undertaking parlors, the jury having no difficulty in arriving at a verdict of accidental death.
It is noted as strange circumstance that in the house where the Wallises have been living Joseph Conley last December committed suicide by shooting himself through the head with a shot gun. The funeral was from the Baptist church at 2 p.m. today and the burial was at Highland cemetery.
Source: The Colfax (IA) Clipper; Thursday, April 2, 1914, page 12