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Samuel Tidwell - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Madison Journal August 8, 1930

TWO KILLED AT MOUND WHEN CRANE FALLS

Alfred Merton Hebert, aged 31, and Samuel Tidmore (Tidwell?), aged 41, were killed instantly at 
Mound Friday shortly before noon when a huge crane which was being operated to lift heavy machinery 
from a flat car, turned over, crushing them lifeless.

The men were employed by the Fred M. Crane Company, levee contractors who are unloading heavy 
levee building machinery at Mound, preparatory to beginning work on a levee near Mound. It was stated 
that Hebert had just gone to work for the company, having reported for the first time Friday shortly 
before he met his death.

Robert Farris, Superintendent of the Crane Company, secured an undertaker and the bodies were prepared 
for interment, which took place in Tallulah Saturday.

Hebert, who was raised near Tallulah, had been home with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Herbert for 
some time before going to work for the levee building company. Tidwell was engaged in farming near Mound 
and it is said that he raised a good crop last year.

Hebert is survived by his mother, and father, one sister, Mrs. Leonora Powell and a brother, Clyde Hebert, 
who is at present in the navy. Tidwell leaves a wife and one daughter.