Extracted from The Pine Bluff Commercial (Pine Bluff, AR)
Monday, October 1, 1956

Boy Suffocated At Monticello; Buried by Rice

Joe Wall, 16, a high school student, was suffocated Saturday Night when he accidentally fell into a hopper at a rice drier at Monticello.

John Watts, another teenager who was working with Wall, said the youth slipped through the hopper and was buried waits [sic waist] deep in a rice bin.

Watts was unable to free Wall and ran for help. When he returned the youth was covered with rice.

Wall is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Wall, a twin sister and a brother.