Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Woodworth, Thomas 1913
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Ionia Daily Sentinel, 13 Feb 1913

Scaffold Breaks; Workmen Killed

Thomas Woodworth, of Pewano, Dies in Ambulance on Way to Hospital.

Thomas Woodworth, 25 Pewano, Mich., a carpenter, died in a police ambulance in
Detroit, Tuesday morning while being rushed to Harper hospital following the
collapse of a scaffold on which he was working at Seminole and Warren avenues.

Woodworth’s brother-in-law, Dr. Thomas, 107 Windermere avenue, Highland Park,
placed him in charge of a new house he was erecting at that place.  Timber for
the scaffolding was delivered Monday afternoon.  Dr. Thomas declared it unsafe
and ordered it discarded.  New timber was ordered but Woodworth is said to have
disobeyed his brother-in-law’s instructions and employed the condemned planking
in building the scaffold.

While working on the scaffold with George Siebrook, 285 Sixth street, the timber
collapsed and Woodworth and his companion were thrown to the ground.  Siebrook
escaped with a few bruises, but Woodworth’s skull was fractured and his ribs
broken.

Coroner Burgess took charge of the body which will be sent to his home in Pewano
for burial.  There will be no inquest.

Woodworth was residing here with a brother, William H. Woodworth, of 385 Alger
avenue.  Besides the brother, he is survived by a sister and an aged mother.


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