AGED HORSE PULLED FROM OLD CESSPOOL
Flossie, Old Gray Mare, Rescued by Strategy of Joe Spies, Who Knows How
The old gray mare came very near illustrating the song refrain that "she isn't what she used to be," Thursday afternoon, while John Jahner was plowing the lot in the rear of 218 First Street for Joseph S Wright.
The mare in question was Flossie, part of the contracting outfit of O. M. Anderson. Unknown to all concerned in the job, there was an old cesspool on the tract. When the plowing had been nearly completed, Flossie suddenly began to sink by the hindquarters as Jahner was drawing one of the final furrows. down she went through the rotting timber coverings until only her head was visible. Jahner managed to avert the sinking of Flossie's bay mate.
A rope was resorted to for Flossie's removal. A loop was cast around her neck, but the horse was unable to scramble out as Jahner and Anderson pulled at the other end. Besides, Flossie nearly strangled.
Joe Spies, who has had experience in two such instances, came over from his garden operations, and gave anderson and his staff men the benefit of his knowledge. An incline was dug and then, by pulling on ropes, Flossie was assisted to scramble up to the surface again. She wasn't hurt, except that her back was scraped by some of the broken timbers, and she promptly went back into the harness.
Mr. Spies once assisted in getting a horse out of a well 140 feet deep. The animal fell into 40 feet of water and was fished out by means of a windlass, thereafter living 30 years.
In view of this episode, Flossie's performance was comparatively amateurish to Mr. Spies.
Bismarck Tribune, 5/3/1929
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Levi, the nineteen year old son of Mr. aand Mrs. Jonas Miller, of
Island Lake, was crushed to death on Saturday, June 4, by being drawn under a
Campbell subsoil packer, about eleven feet long, and weighing at least a ton. How the accident occurred will never be known.
Turtle Mountain Star, 6-19-1913
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A two-year-old daughter of W. H. H. Washburn fell into a
cistern at
Vermillion and was drowned.
Bismarck Tribune, 6/10/1881
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LAY UNDER LOAD FOR 24 HOURS
John Steinbeck, a Westby Farmer, Lost Life in Peculiar Manner.
Westby, Mont., March 21. Word was received here that John Steinbeck, who owned a farm southwest of Westby and had been killed in an accident while hauling grain from Stady country to Fortuna. The roads were bad and Mr. Steinbeck had tied up the reins and evidently was walking along the side of the sleigh to keep it from upsetting when the fatal accident occurred.
Mr. Dunn, who carries the children to and from school, while taking the pupils home turned out to pass around the capsized rig and, seeing the reins tied up, supposing the driver had gone for assistance. The next day, as Mr. Dunn too the children to school, the team was standing as before. After leaving the children at the schoolhouse, he was horrified to see a man's feet protruding from under the sleigh.
Neighbors were notified and the body was taken to Rudser pending instructions from relatives and friends.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 3/22/1916
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Frank Semple, an inmate of the Bismarck jail, dropped dead. He had been in jail frequently during the past year on charges of horse stealing and forgery, and his death no doubt was caused by whisky. His parents live in Virginia. On the same day a pauper known as "Old Brown" died in the same jail.
Bismarck Tribune, 6/3/1881
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Severely Injured
Williston, May 1.—Knute Olson, a farmer living near here, had his nose severed and his lower jaw broken last week, when a team of horses which he had hitched to a plow became frightened and ran over him. He was found in a unconscious condition at 3 o'clock the following morning.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 5/1/1923
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