Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-22
e. r. GRIFFIN, GREAT WESTERN
EMPLoYE, CRUSHED UNDER
FALLING TIMBER.
r. WERsoN, DIES MONIES
MAN, SLIGHTLY INJURED
Grsiffin, Whose Homo is Supposed to
Be FuIda, Mimi, Dies While Being
Brought to This city-Rody Being
Held Here Awaiting Word From
Relative at Fulda.

One man was killed and another in
jured when a pile being driven by a
Great Western bridge crew at one Of
the company's bridges east of the Iowa
river, two and one half miles east OF
the city on the Main street road. fell
while being lifted, late Tuesday after
noon. The dead man is Edward
Griffin, laborer. aged 35. OF Fulda,
MINI. The injured man is Robert
Iverson. laborer, aged As. Of Des
Moines.
Griffin died fifteen or twenty min
utes after he was injured. and while
being brought on a train to st. Thorn
as hospital in this city. Iversons in
juries are not serious.
Crushed Under Pile.
Griffin was crushed under the weight
of the pile. and Iverson was injured by
a piece of flying chain. that was part
of the apparatus used to lift and drive
the pile. Both men were employed with
the pile driving crew Of the company,
sent here from Des Moines to repair
and replace old piles in the approaches
to the bridges near this city.
One Of these piles, the size Of a large
telephone pole, was being hoisted 10
be lowered irto place SO that It coulo
be driven. While in the air the chains
being used to lift it broke or slipped,
letting the pile topple over. Griffin
was caught under it and crushed. Inc
cha in struck Iverson a glanclng DO"
on the head as 1t fell.
Dies Of Internal Injuries.
AS quickly as possible Griffin was
relea sed from under the heavy weight
OF the pile, and he and 1verson were
taken to a car and hurried to this city.
an ambulance and the company physi-
clan. DR.. N Z. Mighell. being sum-
moned. Griffin died before the train
pulled into the station Death was
due principally to internal injuries.
One leg was broken and 1t is thought
also that his back was broken.
1verson was taken to the office OF the
physician where his wounds were
dressed. They consisted OF bad scalp
wounds. but the skull was not fractur-
I'd. After being cared for he was able
to return TO the crews boarding car.
Notify J. J. Griffin.
GrifYin's body was taken to the Sim
q
When his clothes were searched an
identification card was found which
bore instructions to notify J.J. Griffin.
of Fulda. Mimi. in case ce accident,
Altho it is not known it Is presumed
that ]. J. Griffin is the young mans
father. A telegram was sent to this
address last evening, but up to noon
no reply had been received.
Later a letter was turned over to the
undertaken by members of the crew
who were employed with Griffin. This
letter was from. His sister Lulu, and
bore the date Of august 1909 and was
written from Minneapolis. It said that
the writer and her mother had moved
20 Minneapolis and were living at 1901
Third avenue south. They addressed
Griffin at Scotland. S. D. Men who
we're employed with Griffin knew very
little about him.
Coroner F. H. Boucher at first decid-
ed to call an inquest but later. after
learning the full particulars. decided
that an investigation was not neces-
Sarv.