Polk County GaArchives Obituaries.....Cliff Hayes 1904 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: W. Stephens wend@bellsouth.net May 6, 2004, 12:37 pm (Cedartown Standard, February 18, 1904) Mr. Cliff Hayes, a young man from Newnan, met a sudden and horrible death Monday evening at 6 o’clock in the engine room of the Standard Mills. He had been at work on the smoke stack at the mill, and had just come down and gone into the engine room to wash. In washing, he had gotten soap in his eyes, and putting his hands over them he started across the room, and for some unaccountable reason walked into the big fly wheel that was making one hundred revolutions a minute. Mr. John Davis, the assistant engineer, chanced to look around at the unfortunate man just as he was struck by the wheel. Hayes threw out his hands, but never spoke, the wheel slamming his mangled body around at a frightful pace. Every bone in his body was broken and shattered, and the flesh was torn and gashed horribly. Just as quick as Mr. Davis could reach the lever, the engine was shut off, but the heavy machinery had instantly wrought its awful work of death. The remains were taken in hand by the undertaker, Mr. Danie Roberts, and the body was taken Tuesday to Newnan for interment. Mr. Hayes was about twenty years old, and had been in the employ of the R. D. Cole Mfg. Co. of Newnan. He had been in Cedartown only a few days, and had been given a job by the Standard Mills. No explanation can, of course, be offered for the strange conduct of Hayes in walking into the deadly machinery. There is no blame of any kind attached to the company or its employees in the unfortunate affair, but the mill owners did all in their power to care for the victim of the dad catastrophe. (Cedartown Standard, February 18, 1904) This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb