A fatal accident occurred at the new cotton gin of Beaver and Belk at Bear Poplar last Thursday morning, resulting in the death of W.H. Tarpley, a representative of the Murray Gin Works of Atlanta, Ga.
Mr. Tarpley’s home was in Gremnen, Ga., where he is survived by the widow and two children. He was a man about 35 years old and was superintending the installation of machinery in the Bear Poplar plant.
He had completed the installation of the machinery and several bales of cotton had been ginned Wednesday afternoon and the work had begun on the first bale of the day Thursday. Mr. Tarpley, who was preparing to return tohis Georgia home, went by the gin to see if everything was working all right. Some belting was slipping and he put a “dressing” on it and turned around to say something to a bystander, and as he did his shirt sleeve was caught by the fast revolving belt, carrying him to the machine. He was thrown against a post and fell to the cement floor with such a force as to fracture the skull. He was hurried to Longs’ sanatorium at Statesville but died later in the day. The remains were shipped to his home in Georgia.
The unfortunate man was on his way to the station at Bear Poplar to catch a train and having a few minutes spare, stopped at the new gin to see if everything in connection with the machinery he had just installed was working smoothly. He had been at Bear Poplar a week.
From the front page of The Mooresville Enterprise, Thursday, September 17, 1925
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