A lightly edited transcription of a page 1 article from the 27 Jun 1918 Simcoe Reformer newspaper. [Part of the source document (see scan at right) was a challenge to transcribe.]

Accidental Death

Mr. Joseph Snively, an employee of the Simcoe Can Plant, aged 65 years, met an accidental death while at work last week.

He was engaged last Thursday afternoon in [unloading] a wagon with tin cans and had to carry the cans over a plank that was stretched some distance above the ground.

Whether he tired, became dizzy or the plank slipped, is not positively known, as no one was [actually] looking at him when he [fell].

His skull was fractured and he [died] Friday morning.

He was buried [in] Greenwood Cemetery, Waterford, on Sunday, Rev. 
H. C. Newcombe conducting the service.

The pallbearers were M. C. Beaupre, 
W. Baldwin, Newton Challen, A. [Collins], Alex. Young and J. H. Butler.

Deceased's wife died a year or so ago from injuries accidentally inflicted by a 
L. E. and N. car.
 

A lightly edited transcription of a page 1 article from the 27 Jun 1918 Waterford Star newspaper. 

Fall Proved Fatal

Mr. Joseph Snively, for many years a resident of Townsend, fell some 15 feet from the new canning factory building in Simcoe and struck the pavement below, head first.

His two daughters, Mrs. George Limage 
and Mrs. Gordon Bouham, were notified 
and reached Simcoe Thursday night 
before he died.

The injuries to the head are said quite similar to those received by Mrs. Snively 
on 27 Aug 1916, when she was struck by 
a trolley car near Dundurn.

The funeral was held on Sunday afternoon from the residence of his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Bruce Snively of Simcoe. 

Rev. Mr. Newcombe conducted the service in Simcoe and Rev. Earl Dale at the grave.

Mr. Snively had many friends in Townsend who sincerely regret the sad accident.

 

  
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