Owen Hayes, a Grant County old-timer killed in a Silver Creek logging accident
On February 14, 1888, a tree Hayes was felling fell uphill instead of down, struck a boulder, and the trunk dragged him fifty feet before hurling him over a fifty-foot precipice [1]. Kimble treated a fractured right arm and rib [1]. He appeared to be recovering, but on the evening of February 18 died in convulsions while being turned in bed by James Lynch [1]. After his death, rumors circulated that his wounds were not fatal and poison had been administered by mistake [1]; Deputy H. Penney convened a coroner's jury [1].
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- Owen Hayes, an-old-timer of this part of… (1888) ↗ · details, N. M., Feb. 18, 1888 To the Editors of the Enterprise : Owen Hayes, an-old-timer of this part of the country, while chopping a saw-log on Silver creek on the 14th of this month, met with an accident th…