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Colonel Grady Dawson

28 Feb 1891 – 27 Feb 1924

Birth	28 Feb 1891
Death	27 Feb 1924
Cemetery	Oakland Cemetery Dallas , Dallas County , Texas , USA
Added by	Dalton Smith on 10 Oct 2025
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ONE KILLED WHEN DALLAS BUILDING FALLS IN TODAY Dallas, Texas, Feb. 27 - One was killed and several injured when the front wall of a building in the heart of the business district here collapsed. C. G. DAWSON, one of several laborers raising the Scollard building, was killed when an avalanche of stones and brick carried him from the top of the building to the street. Other workers were injured. Several pedestrians were injured by falling rock and glass. The cave in was caused by the falling of a huge hoisting machine on the roof. He married Dora Ann Helm on 30 Mar 1912 in Ellis County, Texas, USA. They had four children. Mexia Daily News, Feb. 27, 1924 ONE KILLED, THREE HURT. IN ACCIDENT WORKMAN ON SCOLLARD BUILDING PLUNGES SIX FLOORS TO DEATH. C. G. Dawson, carpenter, 794 Forest Circle, was killed and three other persons were injured about 11 o'clock Wednesday morning when huge stores and rigging fell from the sixth floor of the old Scollard Building to the pavement below on Main street at Exchange Place. Dawson, who was tending a windlass on top of the structure. which is being razed to make way for the new Republic National Bank Building, was pulled, with his hoisting platform, over the side of the structure when a cable supporting the machinery gave way. He was crushed by heavy stones and timbers as his body struck the sidewalk and death was instantaneous. The injured were Mrs. Henry Exall , 3405 St. John's Drive, Highland Park, crushed foot and bruises about the body: her 3-year- old daughter, Betty Mae Exall , sustained a fractured skull when a shattered timber struck her head, and Louis L. Smith. 3895 Worth street, clearing-house runner for the Central State Bank, cut on the forehead by debris. Were in Tunnel, All of the injured were in the "safety tunnel" constructed outside the sidewalks of the building and their hurts were caused by debris that crashed through the roof of the passageway or splintered boarding from that structure. Mrs. Exall and her baby were taken to Baylor Hospital, where they were treated. Sraith, who had in his charge bank checks for the Dallas Clearing House, refused first-aid treatment until the clearing house could be notified and provision made to have him relieved. Then he was treated at the Emergency Hospital by Drs. R. W. Jenks and B. Randolph and sent to his home. His Injuries are not regarded as serious. Workmen Narrowly Escape. A number of workmen engaged in the task of razing the old stone structure narrowly escaped injury. George A. Gilliland, 1023 Oak Cliff Boulevard, heard cries and saw the falling stone and timbers in time to leap beneath a large truck which he was loading with stone taken from the structure. His truck was badly damaged, but the chassis of the machine with- stood the shock and he was uninjured. Similar escapes were told of by persons who saw scores of pedestrians and workmen flee from in front of the structure as the rigging, by which a one and a half-ton stone was being swung over the street to be lowered into a waiting truck, tore loose. A. W. Sisk, foreman for the Inge Construction Company, which has the contract for demolishing the old Scollard Building, said that the accident was caused by the snap- ping of a main support cable as the huge stone was lifted from its place on the wall and swung out over the street. He said that he did not understand why the cable should have parted, since it was of a size and character regarded as adequate to handle the loads put upon it. City Building Inspector D. C. McCord said that the accident was in no way due to negligence on the part of the contracting company and classed it as a "misfortune" incident to the work. Dawson, who recently came to Dallas from Waxahachie, is survived by his wife and four children, R. L. Dawson, aged 10 years; Wilma Etta, 7; Joseph A., 4, and Doris Naomi, 2. Dallas Morning News. February 28, 1924. Page 8. Additional bio from DMNews contributed by member Dalton Smith 47838724.

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