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Francis LeRoy Smith

Birth	:	29 Dec 1927
Death	:	10 Sep 1951
Burial	:	Wallace Cemetery, Jewell, Jewell County, USA
Coordinate	:	39.6680984, -98.1046982
Description	:	Two workers are dead and another lies in a serious condition in a Superior hospital as a result of a construction accident on the irrigation project just a mile south of Bostwick at 11:45 Monday morning. Killed instantly was Francis Smith, 23, single, of Mankato, Kan., and Gerald Little, 18, of Superior, one of the injured, died yesterday. Joseph E. Healey, 45, also of Mankato, is the injured man. The accident occurred in West Keifer Canyon, about three-quarters of a mile east of the Oswin Keifer farm home, where the Terteling Construction Co. crew was back-filling a new syphon. Healey was operating... Read More	Two workers are dead and another lies in a serious condition in a Superior hospital as a result of a construction accident on the irrigation project just a mile south of Bostwick at 11:45 Monday morning. Killed instantly was Francis Smith, 23, single, of Mankato, Kan., and Gerald Little, 18, of Superior, one of the injured, died yesterday. Joseph E. Healey, 45, also of Mankato, is the injured man. The accident occurred in West Keifer Canyon, about three-quarters of a mile east of the Oswin Keifer farm home, where the Terteling Construction Co. crew was back-filling a new syphon. Healey was operating a Caterpiller bulldozer and Smith and Little were in a five-man crew in the ditch taming dirt around the syphon with pneumatic tamps. They had moved to the fill that morning and had bucked 6 or 7 loads into the ditch. What caused the bulldozer to go over the bank can only be assumed. Healey had dumped the load and the men beneath had started to tamp when the tractor went out of control and over the 23-foot bank, crashing upside down into the bottom of the ditch. Smith was crushed beneath the dozer and the syphon. It took workmen 20 minutes to jack up the tractor and remove his body. A routine investigation of the circumstances surrounding the tragedy was conducted Tuesday by a safety representative of the Bureau of Reclamation. Little, a graduate of the Superior schools, was married this year. His father, Ray D. Little, is a labor foreman on the irrigation job. Healey is married and the father of one child. Funeral services for Smith were held at Mankato yesterday morning. The Nelson Gazette, Thursday, September 13, 1951

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Francis LeRoy Smith's memorial is located at: Wallace Cemetery, Jewell, Jewell County, USA.
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Latitude: 39.6680984
Longitude: -98.1046982

Family Members:

Parent

Roy Smith

(1896 - 1942)

Lenore Hart Smith

(1900 - 1987)

Siblings

Berneita Marie Smith McElroy

(1923 - 2016)

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Coordinate: 39.6680984, -98.1046982

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Coordinate: 39.7886009, -98.2238998

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Coordinate: 39.7983017, -97.9807968

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