Inspector Falls to His Death At Water Plant for Park Cities
A construction inspector Monday fell thirty-nine feet to his death through the roof of a pump house at the new Park Cities Water District plant at Hines and Burbank.
He was Earl John Wolf, 43, of 4239 Holland.
Wolf was an inspector for Powell & Powell, engineers supervising the building of the new water plant. He stepped on a quarter-inch-thick piece of insulating glass on the pump house roof, Deputy Sheriffs C.E. McLaughlin and P.H. Martin said. The glass gave way and he fell through.
B.A. Reif, foreman for Powell & Powell, said he was told that Wolf struck a crane rail during his fall and fell head downward on the hard shale underneath. Reif was not at the scene of the accident.
Wolf died in surgery a short time later at Parkland Hospital.
It was the first serious accident at the new plant, which has been under construction for a year.
Wolf came to Dallas about three years ago from Denver, Colo.
He is survived by his wife and two children, E. J. Wolf Jr. and Mrs. James McDowell [sic], both of Tracy, Calif.
Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Texas, Tuesday, June 13, 1950
Services Planned for Earl J. Wolf
Funeral services for Earl J. Wolf, 43, of 4239 Holland will be held at 9:30 a.m, Wednesday at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, 3811 Oak Lawn. Burial will be in Calvary Hill Cemetery.
Wolf, a construction inspector for Powell & Powell, engineers supervising the building of the new Park Cities Water District plant at Hines and Burbank, fell thirty-nine feet through the roof of a pump house at the plant Monday. He died shortly afterward at Parkland Hospital.
Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Texas, Wednesday, June 14, 1950
Granddaughter: Kathleen Ann "Kathy" Dowell Duffy
Grandson: Steven John "Prince Nelson" Wolf
Note: His death certificate lists the 20th as his day of birth. His WW II draft reg. card and his headstone both have the 16th. The informant on his death certificate was his wife, Verla. They had been married a week shy of 2 months before he died.
A construction inspector Monday fell thirty-nine feet to his death through the roof of a pump house at the new Park Cities Water District plant at Hines and Burbank.
He was Earl John Wolf, 43, of 4239 Holland.
Wolf was an inspector for Powell & Powell, engineers supervising the building of the new water plant. He stepped on a quarter-inch-thick piece of insulating glass on the pump house roof, Deputy Sheriffs C.E. McLaughlin and P.H. Martin said. The glass gave way and he fell through.
B.A. Reif, foreman for Powell & Powell, said he was told that Wolf struck a crane rail during his fall and fell head downward on the hard shale underneath. Reif was not at the scene of the accident.
Wolf died in surgery a short time later at Parkland Hospital.
It was the first serious accident at the new plant, which has been under construction for a year.
Wolf came to Dallas about three years ago from Denver, Colo.
He is survived by his wife and two children, E. J. Wolf Jr. and Mrs. James McDowell [sic], both of Tracy, Calif.
Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Texas, Tuesday, June 13, 1950
Services Planned for Earl J. Wolf
Funeral services for Earl J. Wolf, 43, of 4239 Holland will be held at 9:30 a.m, Wednesday at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, 3811 Oak Lawn. Burial will be in Calvary Hill Cemetery.
Wolf, a construction inspector for Powell & Powell, engineers supervising the building of the new Park Cities Water District plant at Hines and Burbank, fell thirty-nine feet through the roof of a pump house at the plant Monday. He died shortly afterward at Parkland Hospital.
Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Texas, Wednesday, June 14, 1950
Granddaughter: Kathleen Ann "Kathy" Dowell Duffy
Grandson: Steven John "Prince Nelson" Wolf
Note: His death certificate lists the 20th as his day of birth. His WW II draft reg. card and his headstone both have the 16th. The informant on his death certificate was his wife, Verla. They had been married a week shy of 2 months before he died.
Inspector Falls to His Death At Water Plant for Park Cities
A construction inspector Monday fell thirty-nine feet to his death through the roof of a pump house at the new Park Cities Water District plant at Hines and Burbank.
He was Earl John Wolf, 43, of 4239 Holland.
Wolf was an inspector for Powell & Powell, engineers supervising the building of the new water plant. He stepped on a quarter-inch-thick piece of insulating glass on the pump house roof, Deputy Sheriffs C.E. McLaughlin and P.H. Martin said. The glass gave way and he fell through.
B.A. Reif, foreman for Powell & Powell, said he was told that Wolf struck a crane rail during his fall and fell head downward on the hard shale underneath. Reif was not at the scene of the accident.
Wolf died in surgery a short time later at Parkland Hospital.
It was the first serious accident at the new plant, which has been under construction for a year.
Wolf came to Dallas about three years ago from Denver, Colo.
He is survived by his wife and two children, E. J. Wolf Jr. and Mrs. James McDowell [sic], both of Tracy, Calif.
Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Texas, Tuesday, June 13, 1950
Services Planned for Earl J. Wolf
Funeral services for Earl J. Wolf, 43, of 4239 Holland will be held at 9:30 a.m, Wednesday at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, 3811 Oak Lawn. Burial will be in Calvary Hill Cemetery.
Wolf, a construction inspector for Powell & Powell, engineers supervising the building of the new Park Cities Water District plant at Hines and Burbank, fell thirty-nine feet through the roof of a pump house at the plant Monday. He died shortly afterward at Parkland Hospital.
Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Texas, Wednesday, June 14, 1950
Granddaughter: Kathleen Ann "Kathy" Dowell Duffy
Grandson: Steven John "Prince Nelson" Wolf
Note: His death certificate lists the 20th as his day of birth. His WW II draft reg. card and his headstone both have the 16th. The informant on his death certificate was his wife, Verla. They had been married a week shy of 2 months before he died.
A construction inspector Monday fell thirty-nine feet to his death through the roof of a pump house at the new Park Cities Water District plant at Hines and Burbank.
He was Earl John Wolf, 43, of 4239 Holland.
Wolf was an inspector for Powell & Powell, engineers supervising the building of the new water plant. He stepped on a quarter-inch-thick piece of insulating glass on the pump house roof, Deputy Sheriffs C.E. McLaughlin and P.H. Martin said. The glass gave way and he fell through.
B.A. Reif, foreman for Powell & Powell, said he was told that Wolf struck a crane rail during his fall and fell head downward on the hard shale underneath. Reif was not at the scene of the accident.
Wolf died in surgery a short time later at Parkland Hospital.
It was the first serious accident at the new plant, which has been under construction for a year.
Wolf came to Dallas about three years ago from Denver, Colo.
He is survived by his wife and two children, E. J. Wolf Jr. and Mrs. James McDowell [sic], both of Tracy, Calif.
Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Texas, Tuesday, June 13, 1950
Services Planned for Earl J. Wolf
Funeral services for Earl J. Wolf, 43, of 4239 Holland will be held at 9:30 a.m, Wednesday at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, 3811 Oak Lawn. Burial will be in Calvary Hill Cemetery.
Wolf, a construction inspector for Powell & Powell, engineers supervising the building of the new Park Cities Water District plant at Hines and Burbank, fell thirty-nine feet through the roof of a pump house at the plant Monday. He died shortly afterward at Parkland Hospital.
Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Texas, Wednesday, June 14, 1950
Granddaughter: Kathleen Ann "Kathy" Dowell Duffy
Grandson: Steven John "Prince Nelson" Wolf
Note: His death certificate lists the 20th as his day of birth. His WW II draft reg. card and his headstone both have the 16th. The informant on his death certificate was his wife, Verla. They had been married a week shy of 2 months before he died.
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