Belt Youth Killed by Electric Shock
Howard Graybeal, 24, an employee of the Montana Power Company was electrocuted at 9:30 A.M., Thursday, March 13, (1930)while working on power lines in Belt, Montana.
Howard was one of a crew working on lines near the Calone-Johnson mine on the east side hill. Montana Power Company and telephone lines were being adjusted to a single set of poles when Howard came in contact with a power line carrying 2,200 volts of electricity.
The Great Falls fire department responded to the call made soon after the tragedy and arrived in Belt within 35 minutes. Efforts to revive him at the office of his father, Dr. James W. Graybeal, were fruitless and he was pronounced dead around noon.
Howard Graybeal, who was born January 25, 1908, at Zortman, is survived by his father and mother and two sisters, Ella, a graduate nurse of Deconess Hospital, in Great Falls, and Irene, a freshman at Belt Valley High school. Edward V. Graybeal of Great Falls is a cousin. Dr. Graybeal heads the Graybeal hospital at Belt and is assisted by Miss Ella Graybeal.
The above obituary was condensed and paraphrased from an article in the Great Falls Tribune of, Friday, March 14, 1930, page 3, first column. Kyle Graybeal
Howard Graybeal, 24, an employee of the Montana Power Company was electrocuted at 9:30 A.M., Thursday, March 13, (1930)while working on power lines in Belt, Montana.
Howard was one of a crew working on lines near the Calone-Johnson mine on the east side hill. Montana Power Company and telephone lines were being adjusted to a single set of poles when Howard came in contact with a power line carrying 2,200 volts of electricity.
The Great Falls fire department responded to the call made soon after the tragedy and arrived in Belt within 35 minutes. Efforts to revive him at the office of his father, Dr. James W. Graybeal, were fruitless and he was pronounced dead around noon.
Howard Graybeal, who was born January 25, 1908, at Zortman, is survived by his father and mother and two sisters, Ella, a graduate nurse of Deconess Hospital, in Great Falls, and Irene, a freshman at Belt Valley High school. Edward V. Graybeal of Great Falls is a cousin. Dr. Graybeal heads the Graybeal hospital at Belt and is assisted by Miss Ella Graybeal.
The above obituary was condensed and paraphrased from an article in the Great Falls Tribune of, Friday, March 14, 1930, page 3, first column. Kyle Graybeal
Belt Youth Killed by Electric Shock
Howard Graybeal, 24, an employee of the Montana Power Company was electrocuted at 9:30 A.M., Thursday, March 13, (1930)while working on power lines in Belt, Montana.
Howard was one of a crew working on lines near the Calone-Johnson mine on the east side hill. Montana Power Company and telephone lines were being adjusted to a single set of poles when Howard came in contact with a power line carrying 2,200 volts of electricity.
The Great Falls fire department responded to the call made soon after the tragedy and arrived in Belt within 35 minutes. Efforts to revive him at the office of his father, Dr. James W. Graybeal, were fruitless and he was pronounced dead around noon.
Howard Graybeal, who was born January 25, 1908, at Zortman, is survived by his father and mother and two sisters, Ella, a graduate nurse of Deconess Hospital, in Great Falls, and Irene, a freshman at Belt Valley High school. Edward V. Graybeal of Great Falls is a cousin. Dr. Graybeal heads the Graybeal hospital at Belt and is assisted by Miss Ella Graybeal.
The above obituary was condensed and paraphrased from an article in the Great Falls Tribune of, Friday, March 14, 1930, page 3, first column. Kyle Graybeal
Howard Graybeal, 24, an employee of the Montana Power Company was electrocuted at 9:30 A.M., Thursday, March 13, (1930)while working on power lines in Belt, Montana.
Howard was one of a crew working on lines near the Calone-Johnson mine on the east side hill. Montana Power Company and telephone lines were being adjusted to a single set of poles when Howard came in contact with a power line carrying 2,200 volts of electricity.
The Great Falls fire department responded to the call made soon after the tragedy and arrived in Belt within 35 minutes. Efforts to revive him at the office of his father, Dr. James W. Graybeal, were fruitless and he was pronounced dead around noon.
Howard Graybeal, who was born January 25, 1908, at Zortman, is survived by his father and mother and two sisters, Ella, a graduate nurse of Deconess Hospital, in Great Falls, and Irene, a freshman at Belt Valley High school. Edward V. Graybeal of Great Falls is a cousin. Dr. Graybeal heads the Graybeal hospital at Belt and is assisted by Miss Ella Graybeal.
The above obituary was condensed and paraphrased from an article in the Great Falls Tribune of, Friday, March 14, 1930, page 3, first column. Kyle Graybeal
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