Dallas Co., TX - Burrel Lewis ***************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb by: Sadie Kennedy USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************** Dallas Morning News 10 Apr 1895 page 5 CRUSHED TO DEATH Laborer Buried Under Brick and Debris of a Falling Scaffold ENNIS, Ellis Co., Tex., April 9 - - This afternoon about 1:30 o'clock, while working upon the Crumley drugstore addition, in the falling of some scaffolding a negro laborer names Burrel Lewis lost his life. Mr. Shively, in charge of the work, makes the following statement: "There were two scaffolds, one a few feet above the other, perfectly braced between the outer walls of two adjoining building. A workman named Charley Jones was on the upper scaffold, which was loaded with brick, the negro being on the second floor of the building, engaged in piling brick from the wall onto the second scaffold. The top scaffolding gave way, perhaps from being overloaded, though the foreman states the work was very strongly built and braced. Just as the scaffold gave way, Lewis happened to be standing on the ledge of the floor, and from fright it is supposed, he was induced to leap from his place of safety on to the second scaffold, which was mashed from its fastenings, and went down with it. He was covered with brick and debris and when rescued was dead. It is supposed his death was instantaneous, as his body and head were mashed almost flat." The deceased was well known in Ennis and was regarded as an honest, hard- working, good citizen. Jones followed the falling mass to the ground and received some severe bruises. Title: Crushed to Death Date1895-04-10 Page 5