Horatio Farnham, book-keeper at the
Minneapolis Harvester Works, was seriously and probably fatally wounded by the accidental discharge of a gun in the hands of Dr. Beecher. The gun was discharged by a dog backing up against the hammer in some manner while being led by the Doctor. The charge of shot entered the lower portion of the back, inflicting a ghastly and probably fatal wound.
Bismarck Tri-Weekly Tribune, 8/31/1877
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T. Jakobson had a narrow escape from drowning in
Painted Woods lake last week. Mr. Jakobson was and Pete Wallin were up fishing. The boat started to float away and Mr. Jakobson was going after it, got into a deep place and would have been lost had not his companion been near at hand to help him out.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 7/28/1894
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LIGHTNING BREAKS ANKLE
BURNS WAY THROUGH FLESH OF LEG, EMERGING FROM BACK OF HEEL
Tioga, N.D., Sept. 9.—One of the most remarkable escapes from death by lightning was that of Mrs. Ole Hersel, residing near this city.
Struck by a bold which scorched her shoulder and leaped from there to the calf of her leg, the lightning pierced a hole in her flesh, burning its way along the bone and into her foot, emerging in the back of the heel.
During its course the lightning shattered every bone in her ankle. She will recover.
Williston Graphic, 9/11/1913
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A railroad grader hanged himself in a box car near
Munich, up north.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 9/26/1905
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HIT BY TRAIN; KILLED
New Rockford, N.D., July 21—Peter M Kittelson, aged 48, a wealthy resident of New Rockford, was instantly killed yesterday afternoon when the automobile in which he was returning from Plaza, N.D., was struck by the northbound train at a crossing entering the city. A boxcar standing on a side track shut off the view of the approaching train. The automobile was struck squarely. The victim's skull was crushed.
Fargo Forum and Daily Republican, 7/21/1915
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Mr. H.D. Harter, who recently lost all his worldly goods by prairie fire, had the misfortune to fall off a threshing machine and break his collar bone.
Jamestown Alert, 11/12/1885
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