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Elwin Thomas Fatally Injured
Elwin Francis Thomas, 34, of this village, laborer for the St. Regis Paper company, died at 11:55 last Wednesday night in Mercy hospital, Watertown, of injuries sustained on Tuesday morning when he fell about eight feet from the top of a stack of bales of pulp at the mill after he was hit by one of the bales. The man suffered a fracture of the spine at the neck. The injury paralyzed his arms and his back from the shoulder blades upward. Mr. Thomas, who was admitted to the hospital Tuesday afternoon at 1:40,
remained in a critical condition from the time of the accident. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at 1:30 from the home of Guy Bowman, Oswebatchie Corners, where he lived, and at 2 in theOswegatchie Corners school house. Burial was made in the Oswegatchie, Corners cemetery.
Surviving him are his wife, the former Miss Matilda Stafford; hisfather and brother, George Thomas, sr., and George Thomas, jr., both of the town of Diana; three children,Gerald 10, Darwin 8 and Delbert 3;
and two sisters, Mrs. Delbert (Ruby)LaVancha, Harrisville, and Mrs. Roy (Hazel) Manchester, Deferiet. The victim and three other workmen were unloading bales of pulp from a railroad box ear and stacking them beside the mill. The bales were being removed from the car and carried to a yard beside the millby means of a motor-driven conveyor and the men were picking them upwith hand hooks and piling them up. Mr. Thomas was standing on top of the pile, three tiers high, arranging the bales in the stack as they came off the conveyor. One of the square-shaped bales, measuring about two feet high and weighing between 350 and 400 pounds, came off the conveyor. It hit Mr. Thomas, knocking him off the stack. The man dropped about eight feet, striking on his back as he landed On the ground.
The sixth cervical vertebra was badly fractured and crushed in the fall. A Harrisville physician was summoned to the scene and he advised that the injured man be immediately removed to a hospital. Mr. Thomas was then taken to Watertown in the Dunlop ambulance. Dr. H. G. Farmer attended Himhttp://news.nnyln.net lewis county
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1907 - 1942 (34 years)
