Edward Poole, about 35 years old, an employee of Rawling & Co., plumbing contractors of Mt. Holly, was instantly killed Tuesday morning about 8:30 o’clock while at work at Spindale, where the Rawlings Company has contract for the water and sewer system of the town.
Poole and a negro man by the name of Willie Davis had been working in the bottom of a 20-foot ditch, bracing the walls to prevent a cave-in. Placing a ladder against the wall, Poole had ascended about half way, when the walls caved in, burying him beneath a mass of dirt. According to the negro, Davis, when the cave-in happened he ran toward the end of the ditch in attempt to escape and was not so heavily buried as was Mr. Poole.
When workmen hastily removed the dirt form the prostrate man, it was found that Poole had been suffocated and his life was extinct. The negro man was unconscious but showed evidences of faint spark of life. He was hurried to the hospital, where he regained consciousness, but was found to be seriously injured. At the time of this writing, it is said that Davis will recover.
It is said that Mr. Poole, who was a foreman for the Rawlings Company was originally from near Spartanburg, but more recently from Mt. Holly, the home of the contractors. He was unmarried.
Willie Davis, the negro, is about 20 years old and married His home is at King’s Mountain.
From the front page of the Forest City Courier, Thursday, March 25, 1926
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