Muscogee County GaArchives Obituaries.....Dyer, V.S.G. October 1 1901
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The Marion County Patriot, October 4, 1901
The Marion County Patriot, No. 39
October 4, 1901
Page One

Pole on Which Columbus Man Was Working Snaps in Two

Columbus, Ga., Oct. 2 – V.S.G. Dyer, aged about 20 years, a lineman in the 
employ of the Western Union Telegraph Company met a tragic death here yesterday.

He had climbed a pole on a high embankment near the Eleventh Street culvert for 
the purpose of transferring the wires to another pole when the one he was on 
snapped near the bottom.  Instead of falling across the railroad track, it 
descended in the other direction, down the embankment, and thus the lineman had 
a fall of about 40 feet.

He landed in the new powerhouse being built by Golden’s foundry.  In falling he 
tightly clasped the pole to his breast, and it so chanced that he fell upon his 
back with the weight of the pole added to the shock.  He died at the hospital 
soon afterwards from his injuries.

A negro, G.S. Morris, was up the pole at the time helping Dyer, but it so 
happened that he was not seriously hurt in the fall.



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