Mrs. Charlotte Ringus, a widow who formerly lived near
Braddock but later was confined to the Jamestown insane asylum, died at that place May 27th of pulmonary abscess and acute mania, and the remains were buried in the Jamestown cemetery. She leaves two children to mourn her death. She was the widow of Charles Ringus, who shot himself after firing on several other persons.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 6/18/1902
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Crushed in a Well
Tuesday afternoon a man whose name has not been learned, was fatally crushed while digging a well near New Salem, west of the Missouri river. He was in the bottom of the well and his wife, together with a neighboring woman, was hauling up the material in buckets. The unlucky man placed a large stone in the bucket, and the women were hauling it from below when it fell, striking the unwarned man on the head. A doctor was immediately sent for but no hopes for recovery were entertained.
Bismarck Tribune, 6/20/1884
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Kicked; Dies Later
Inkster.—While endeavoring to drive a colt from between two animals hitched together, Hugh Davis, a farm hand, was kicked and so seriously injured that he died.
Turtle Mountain Star, 6/19/1913
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Woman's Awful Suicide
Mrs. Moulton, the wife of farmer living near Hoople, Walsh county, committed suicide by shooting herself twice with a shot gun. Mr Moulton was working in the harvest field and Mrs. Moulton and her four children were at home. Some time about six o'clock she got up, went to the barn, and milked, brought the pail in and set it on the table. From all appearances the mania to take her life seems to have seized her then. She took the gun, put a cartridge in one barrel, placed it on her breast and managed with one hand to pull the trigger, by so doing she drew her right shoulder down so as to only inflict a wound on her breast and shatter her left arm above the elbow. In this condition she walked from one room through another and into a third to get another cartridge, returned, broke the gun, extracted the shell, reloaded, placed the gun squarely against her breast and fired the second shot pulling the trigger with her toe, being barefooted. There were traces of blood to prove that she walked as stated alone after firing the first shot. The first should would have been fatal without prompt attention, the second entered her heart, liver, and lungs and death was instantaneous.
Bismark Daily Tribune, 8/19/1903
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O. A. Hirengen, a prominent merchant, was burned to death in his store at
Norwich, a small station fourteen miles east of Minot. The cause of the fire is a mystery. Hirengen was not known to have been in the building until his charred remains were found. There may have been foul play.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 6/23/1904
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Alexander Man Killed by Bolt of Lightning
Alexander, N.D., July 21.—Fred N. Moulton was instantly killed by a bold of lightning which struck him while he was standing in the door of a barn on his farm adjoining this town. Moulton and a hired man had gone out in the storm to put a cow in the barn and had completed their task, and Moulton was standing in the door watching the downpour when the flash came that ended his life. He leaves a wife and two children.
Fargo Forum and Daily Republican, 7/21/1915
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