Jack Stroud
Obituaries
Eagle Valley Enterprise page 1 - January 14, 1960
Eagle Valley Enterprise page 1 - January 14, 1960
Tree kills timber worker
Jack Stroud, 60, was crushed to death in a timber accident on Mill Creek Saturday morning. He was employed by Fleming Lumber Co., and working on the Colorado Mill and Lumber Co. timber sale at the time. Shortly before the accident, Mr. Stroud had called to two other workers, E. H. Rogers and Louis Salazar, to keep clear of the area, because he wasn’t sure which way the tree would fall. The two men were working out of sight of Mr. Stroud, but heard the tree go down and missed the sound of Stroud’s saw. When they got to him, they found him face down in four feet of snpw, the tree on top of him. Salazar and Rogers were able to dig the snow from beneath Stroud and pull him free of the tree. John McAllister, manager of the Fleming Lumber Co., said Stroud was unconscious when he was taken from under the tree, and died with his head in Mr. Salazar’s lap. McAllister also said It is possible Stroud attempted to retrieve bis saw. when the tree started to fall, and possibly slipped in the snow-. He was working in a place where there was room to get in the clear of the tree. County Coroner Todd Bowman said Stroud died of a crushed chest. His- body was shipped from the Bowman Mortuary In Eagle to Craig for burial. Mr. Stroud had jrorked. Juthp timber in various parts of Eagle County for a number of years. He is survived by a sister, Mrs. Tom Shockley of Craig. Mr. Stroud’s death was the second timber death in the county in the past two months. Several weeks ago, Frank Robertson was killed when a tree foil on him in the Red Dirt area. His body was found under a large limb, bis power saw still turned on, but out of gas.
