MY KINFOLKS OF KY AND BEYOND
NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
PAGE 12
Transcribed from Harlan Enterprise dated Friday, May 20, 1922
Transcribed for fluency and clarity by W. Hollace Wilson, Jr.
Received from Microfiche at Harlan County Public Library, Harlan Co., KY
Hayward Hall, a young man, 19 years old; son of Jno. B and Mrs. Frankie Hall, was rammed by a two-ton truck early Tuesday against the front brick wall of the Black Motor Company on Central Street and his injuries may likely prove to be fatal. His injuries are in the right breast, where all the propelling force of the powerful engine pressed. Rebounding from the pressure the truck struck the crushed boy some two or three times when the mechanic at work inside the garage heard the outcry for help and rushing to the boy’s side he pushed back the monster motor wagon which seemed as if infuriated by its barrier it could not overcome. After giving the car a mighty push backward the mechanic sprang into the car and stopped the engine, then called hurriedly for an ambulance and the injured young man soon was carried to the Harlan Hospital.
The injured young man was employed by the McComb’s Supply Company, whom he had been with for some two years. He was an employee at the local outlet depot before going to McComb’s Company. He was driver for McComb’s and when he parked his truck in front of the Black Motor Company Monday evening, he left it in gear and forgot to throw it out of gear Tuesday morning and cranking the car with no thought of the gear in mind, the 50 horse-power engine surged forward and instantly caught up its driver and almost crushed his body as if an egg shell against the wall. There is but slight hope for his recovery.
George Skidmore, a half brother of the young Hall, was killed by a railway train in Iowa some three month’s ago.
LATER
The young man Hall died of his injuries at 9:36 o’clock Thursday morning. Funeral services will be held this afternoon at the Methodist Episcopal Church with Dr. T. B. Roberts officiating.
The order of De Molay will attend the service in a body.
The Deceased was a De Molay and his passing was the first break in the Order here. He lived with his mother for whom he well provided and left a life insurance policy for $5,000 in which she is named beneficiary.
Burial services will be held this afternoon in the Skidmore Cemetery.
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