GEORGE WALTERS, JR

WALTERS

Posted By: Judy Kelley (email)
Date: 10/11/2016 at 10:51:54

GEO. WALTERS FALLS FROM HAY BARRICK

Fell Twenty Feet and Was Killed Instantly

RESIDED NEAR GRANDVIEW IA

Lifeless Body Was Discovered by His Daughter Wednesday morning about 7:30--Prominent Resident of Community

George Walters, Jr., a well known farmer residing one mile east of Grandview was instantly killed Wednesday morning by a fall of twenty feet from the top of a hay barrick on his farm.

No one witnessed the sad accident, and Mr. Walters' lifeless body was first discovered by his young daughter about 7:30 o'clock. The circumstances surrounding the accident, however, indicate that Mr. Walters climbed to the top of the hay barrick and in descending had grasped a rope which hung from the top of the barrick and attempted to let himself to the ground with it, when the rope broke and he fell to the ground with such force as to break his neck and fracture his skull.

When the child found the body of her father she screamed and her mother rushed to the scene. Mrs. Walters believing her husband was still alive hastily summoned a physician, but a brother of the dead man who arrived a few minutes later declared that Walters had been dead for several minutes upon his arrival and it is believed that death was instantaneous.

Mr. Walters was about 40 years of age and is survived by his wife and three children, his parents, and other relatives. He was a prominent and well known resident of that vicinity and his sudden and tragic death has greatly shocked his many friends.

source: Newspaper clipping with a handwritten date of Dec. 7, 1910