Thomas County KS Archives Obituaries.....Smith, Charles May 11, 1891
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The Colby Tribune, Thomas County, Thursday, May 14, 1891

A Fatal Accident.
Last Saturday Ex-commissioner W.H. SMITH received a letter from Denver stating
that his son Chas. had met with an accident and his recovery is doubtful. Sunday
a telegram came telling Mr. and Mrs. Smith to come at once. They left on Sunday
night's vestibule, but before their arrival at Denver the boy was dead.
Charles had been in Denver for sometime, and at the time of the accident working
on a derrick in one of the principle streets when the structure was struck by a
cable car and he was crushed between the timbers.
The veridt of the coroners' jury is as follows:
"That the said Charles Smith came to his death in the city of Denver, at the
Arapahoe County Hospital, on the 11th day of May, 1891, about 3 a.m., from the
effects on the 6th day of May, 1891, by being crushed between a fence post and a
derrick struck by grip car No. 21 of the Denver City Cable Company, and we are
of the opinion that the said death is from the want of proper care on the part
of the gripamn of said car."
Mr. Smith arrived with the remains this morning, and they were at once conveyed
to his home ten miles south of Colby. The intermenet took place this morning at
10 o'clock in the cemetery at Thurford.
Mr. Smith and family have the sympathy of the entire community in their sad
bereavement.




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