12-year-old Charley Cardell died from suffocation while playing in a cotton house.
For those who are unfamiliar with cotton houses, it's exactly what it sounds like: a storage shed for the cotton crop. The big, fluffy bales were very inviting to children. Unfortunately, it was a dangerous place to play. If the bales collapsed, a child could be trapped and asphyxiated by fibers or lack of oxygen.
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