Lightning Helps Youth Crank Car
Miller, S.D., Aug. 11(UP)—While cranking his car on a farm near here Tuesday, Harold Rowan was struck by lightning, which hurled him 20 feet against a building. Rowan was unconscious when his parents rushed to his aid. He was revived later and his only injuries were burns on his nose, hands, and feet. The auto was not damaged and the engine was running when Rowan regained consciousness.
Moorhead Daily News, 8/11/1926
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LITTLE GIRL VICTIM
Loses Life While Playing Around a Bonfire
Milton.—Maimie Gustafson, aged 3, was burned to death at the home of her parents near this city. They child was playing with her sister and brothers around a bonfire, and they were trying to see how close they could get to the fire without being burned. She fell into the flames, and her mother, near by was the first to reach her and drag her from the fire, but not until too late.
Turtle Mountain Star, 5/30/1912
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Pat Williams stabbed George Griffin, at Grand Forks, with a pocket knife. Both had just been released from jail, Williams for a term of fifty days and Griffin ten. Griffin will recover.
Jamestown Alert, 11/5/1885
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MOTHER FEARS GIRL MURDERED
INVESTIGATION STARTED INTO DEATH OF GRACE SMITH OF FELTON.
CORONER OF RAMSEY COUNTY REPORTED DEATH DUE TO SUICIDE.
One of the saddest stories ever told in Clay county reached its conclusion last Saturday, when all that was mortal of Grace Smith was delivered in a coffin to her mother at Felton. Grace Smith, only 18 years old, is dead, and she took her own life in St. Paul, according to the coroner of Ramsey County.
Some years ago this innocent little girl was found to be a victim of her stepfather's sexual desires when at the age of 14 she was found to be in a delicate condition. The outcome of the affair was that the girl was sent to Sauk Centre and the brute of a stepfather was sent to state prison, where he is still held. After the girl had been at Sauk Centre for a time the state found a home for her with a family in St. Paul. Everything apparently went well until recently when the home was to break up. The son was to marry and the old folks intended to move to California. Another home was found for the girl but shirtly before she was to move she went into the basement and there she ended all by shooting herself in the breast. The Ramsey county authorities investigated and a coroner's jury returned a verdict of death inflicted by her own hands.
The body of Grace was sent back to her mother at Felton, this county, in charge of two nurses, and there she was buried.
The mother, Mrs. Smith and the dead girl's uncle, Ole Larson, left for St. Paul on Wednesday to investigate the death of the girl, fearing that she had been the victim of foul play. The mother had not been notified of her daughter's death until a few hours before the body arrived at Felton.
Moorhead Daily News, 8/18/1923
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A SAD ACCIDENT.
Grand Forks Herald: One of the most distressing accidents that ever occurred in this vicinity took place near Fisher yesterday when Alice, the 13 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Maynard Crane of Cooperstown, was crushed to death under the wheels of a binder. The little child was visiting the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Parsons near Fisher, and was playing about the yard yesterday afternoon, with a number of other children. She was amusing herself with a little pony, which she finally hitched to the end of a binder tongue. In some manner the pony was startled, and started forward. The little child fell in front of the machine and the pony pulled the binder over her, the large wheel passing over her head, crushing the skull, death ensuing instantly.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 8/14/1902
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BOY'S FACE TORN BY NAILS
FELL FROM ROOF OF SHED AND STRUCK O NBOARD{sp} FULL OF BIG NAILS
Arthur the six year old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Zion, who live on West Broadway, was badly injured about the chest and face Wednesday afternoon when he fell from the roof of a woodshed where he way {sp} playing. In the fall he struck a piece of scantling leaning against the shed, in which there were some protruding nails. The sharp nails tore the flesh on his chest and caught him in the side of the face as he fell. Nineteen stitches were required to close up the wound in the side of his face, which extended from the lower part of the haw almost to his eye. The young lad is getting along very nicely and will recover if no complications follow.
Williston Graphic, 9/11/1913
You can see a post-recovery Arthur in this newspaper.
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