FLOYD LAUGHLIN, FORMER PULASKI COUNTY BOY KILLED INSTANTLY
Head was Completely Severed From Body
by a Cable
Floyd
Laughlin, 21 years old, was instantly killed April 5th, 1916 at Nagrom Wash.,
when a cable in the Morgan Lumber Company's mill snapped in two. A hook at the
end of the cable tore the youth's head from his shoulders. Young Laughlin had
been employed in the mill a year and a half. The body was taken to Tacoma
Wash., for burial. Funeral was held in the afternoon on Saturday, April 8th.
Interment in Oakland cemetery under the direction of C.C. Melling Co.
Floyd is
survived by his father John Laughlin, three sisters: Mrs. A.W. Cook, Mrs. C.C.
Myers, Miss Ollie and a half brother, J.L. Vaughn, all of Cookville, Mo. Young
Laughlin left this county with his grandfather, T.M. Laughlin, in 1913 going to
Modesto, Cal., where he worked in the nursery business during the season of
1914, from there to San Francisco and later to Nagrom where he met his death.
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