RUMFORD -, Me., Aug. 24 - Maxwell Hayes, 12 year-old son of David E. Hayes, a Maine Central railroad dispatcher, living at 224 Knox Street, was found dead in the attic of the home Wednesday afternoon by his mother, and is supposed to have been instantly killed while attempting to turn on an electric light during the severe thuder storm. About 3:00 o'clock the litter fellow went to the attic and shortly afterward there was an unusually brilliant flash of lightning. The mother, anxious about her son, called to him, but received no answer. She went to the attic immediately and found him dead on the floor beneath a broken bulb on the electric light cord.
Lewiston Evening Journal. Thurs. 8/24/1916 p. 2, col. 2
Maxwell, the 14 year old son of D. E. Hayes of Rumford, Me., was accidently killed during a thunder shower yesterday afternoon.
The Boston Globe, August 24.
RUMFORD, Me., Aug. 26 - The Funeral of Maxwell Hayes was held Friday afternoon at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. David E. Hayes on Knox Street, and the remains taken to Portland for burial on the afternoon train. Rev. William M. Forgrave of Kittery conducted the serivces. An investigation of the wiring of the house by the engineer of the Power Co. has shown that the electric wiring had no connection with his death. The place was found where lighting entered the roof and the boy was standing in just the place so that it passed thru the boy, entering the forehead and passing thru one side to the foot. The electric bulb was broken by the power of the lighting.
Lewiston Saturday Journal. 8/26/1916 p. 12, col.3
Maxwell Hayes, 12 years of age, lost his life at Rumford in the shower. He was standing beneath an electric light in his attic room at 224 Knox street, when there came an exceptionally violent lightning flash, and his dead body was later found on the floor.
In Rumford, Aug. 23, Maxwell, son of Mr. and Mrs. David Hayes, aged 13 years.
Oxford Democrat: August 29, 1916
Lewiston Evening Journal. Thurs. 8/24/1916 p. 2, col. 2
Maxwell, the 14 year old son of D. E. Hayes of Rumford, Me., was accidently killed during a thunder shower yesterday afternoon.
The Boston Globe, August 24.
RUMFORD, Me., Aug. 26 - The Funeral of Maxwell Hayes was held Friday afternoon at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. David E. Hayes on Knox Street, and the remains taken to Portland for burial on the afternoon train. Rev. William M. Forgrave of Kittery conducted the serivces. An investigation of the wiring of the house by the engineer of the Power Co. has shown that the electric wiring had no connection with his death. The place was found where lighting entered the roof and the boy was standing in just the place so that it passed thru the boy, entering the forehead and passing thru one side to the foot. The electric bulb was broken by the power of the lighting.
Lewiston Saturday Journal. 8/26/1916 p. 12, col.3
Maxwell Hayes, 12 years of age, lost his life at Rumford in the shower. He was standing beneath an electric light in his attic room at 224 Knox street, when there came an exceptionally violent lightning flash, and his dead body was later found on the floor.
In Rumford, Aug. 23, Maxwell, son of Mr. and Mrs. David Hayes, aged 13 years.
Oxford Democrat: August 29, 1916
RUMFORD -, Me., Aug. 24 - Maxwell Hayes, 12 year-old son of David E. Hayes, a Maine Central railroad dispatcher, living at 224 Knox Street, was found dead in the attic of the home Wednesday afternoon by his mother, and is supposed to have been instantly killed while attempting to turn on an electric light during the severe thuder storm. About 3:00 o'clock the litter fellow went to the attic and shortly afterward there was an unusually brilliant flash of lightning. The mother, anxious about her son, called to him, but received no answer. She went to the attic immediately and found him dead on the floor beneath a broken bulb on the electric light cord.
Lewiston Evening Journal. Thurs. 8/24/1916 p. 2, col. 2
Maxwell, the 14 year old son of D. E. Hayes of Rumford, Me., was accidently killed during a thunder shower yesterday afternoon.
The Boston Globe, August 24.
RUMFORD, Me., Aug. 26 - The Funeral of Maxwell Hayes was held Friday afternoon at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. David E. Hayes on Knox Street, and the remains taken to Portland for burial on the afternoon train. Rev. William M. Forgrave of Kittery conducted the serivces. An investigation of the wiring of the house by the engineer of the Power Co. has shown that the electric wiring had no connection with his death. The place was found where lighting entered the roof and the boy was standing in just the place so that it passed thru the boy, entering the forehead and passing thru one side to the foot. The electric bulb was broken by the power of the lighting.
Lewiston Saturday Journal. 8/26/1916 p. 12, col.3
Maxwell Hayes, 12 years of age, lost his life at Rumford in the shower. He was standing beneath an electric light in his attic room at 224 Knox street, when there came an exceptionally violent lightning flash, and his dead body was later found on the floor.
In Rumford, Aug. 23, Maxwell, son of Mr. and Mrs. David Hayes, aged 13 years.
Oxford Democrat: August 29, 1916
Lewiston Evening Journal. Thurs. 8/24/1916 p. 2, col. 2
Maxwell, the 14 year old son of D. E. Hayes of Rumford, Me., was accidently killed during a thunder shower yesterday afternoon.
The Boston Globe, August 24.
RUMFORD, Me., Aug. 26 - The Funeral of Maxwell Hayes was held Friday afternoon at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. David E. Hayes on Knox Street, and the remains taken to Portland for burial on the afternoon train. Rev. William M. Forgrave of Kittery conducted the serivces. An investigation of the wiring of the house by the engineer of the Power Co. has shown that the electric wiring had no connection with his death. The place was found where lighting entered the roof and the boy was standing in just the place so that it passed thru the boy, entering the forehead and passing thru one side to the foot. The electric bulb was broken by the power of the lighting.
Lewiston Saturday Journal. 8/26/1916 p. 12, col.3
Maxwell Hayes, 12 years of age, lost his life at Rumford in the shower. He was standing beneath an electric light in his attic room at 224 Knox street, when there came an exceptionally violent lightning flash, and his dead body was later found on the floor.
In Rumford, Aug. 23, Maxwell, son of Mr. and Mrs. David Hayes, aged 13 years.
Oxford Democrat: August 29, 1916
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