MAN CAME NEAR TO DEATH AT RAY, N.D. MONDAY.
On Monday afternoon, January 27, Ray Moore one of the engineers at the Ray light plant had a very narrow escape from a horrible death from being dashed to pieces by the machinery at the plant. Ray Moore and Chas. Summers were starting the toy gasoline engine when Moore went over to correct a clutch on the line shaft which operates the electric generator. In some way his clothing was caught on an exposed set screw on the shaft. His overalls were torn from his body and one trouser leg was torn off and ripped to shreds. A bone in the leg was broken and the entire limb badly bruised and cut. When he felt that he was caught he grabbed and held onto a plank brace and called for help which was the only thing that saved him from being pounded to pieces. Dr. Scott was called and the injured man taken care of. The machinery and shafting in the plant is very poor and the place where Moore was caught in the shaft is commonly called the kill-em-quick. It is a wonder that there are not more accidents at the plant than there are. Somebody will cash in their checks at the place if they keep on.
Valley City Times-Record, 2-6-1913
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KILLED BY FALL
Tom Burns, an old time citizen of Devils Lake, was killed by a fall down a stairway Sunday evening. Burns was intoxicated and was being assisted down stairs by a friend. When part way down he stated he thought he could go the remainder of the way alone. He was no sooner released however that he fell headlong to the bottom of the stairway. He was picked up in an unconscious condition from which he never recovered. He died about nine hours after the accident. Deceased was 66 years old and leaves a wife.
Williston Graphic, 2/6/1908
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Sheriff Follis came down from Medora this afternoon in search of a prisoner who escaped from the Medora jail last night. The man was
Otto Cheneworth, held for attempting to run off a hundred head of horses from the
Huidekoper ranch. It is not known how he escaped. He was locked up in his cell in the evening, and managed to get out in some way, for shortly after he was interred. No trace of him has been obtained yet by the sheriff.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 1-16-1902
Cheneworth Regrets
SAID HE WAS SORRY TO LEAVE HIS FRIENDS BUT DID NOT CARE TO STAY IN JAIL
Medora, N.D. Jan 16—Arthur Cheneworth, who was arrested some time since, for stealing a train load of horses from A.C. Huidekoper, left jail last evening. He left a very nice letter, bidding good by to all his friends, and saying how sorry he was to leave them, but under the circumstances thought it best to go, and that if he stole a horse he would return it in due time. Mr. Cheneworth was a very nice gentleman and from a good family, and a great worker in the church. For some reason he did not care to stay and stand his trial; in fact his note said he much objected to being in jail.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 1-17-1902
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John Hofstrand, age 24, unmarried, was found dead Sunday in the new school house at
Brinsmade,where he was sleeping to keep up the fire while the building was being plastered. Death was apparently due to coal gas.
Jamestown Alert, 11/19/1896
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SCHOOL GIRL WAS FROZEN ON PRAIRIE
CHILDREN ARE SEPARATED FROM HORSE AND CUTTER
Winnipeg, (Man.), Feb 2.—Two children, Muriel, aged 15, and Fred McKelvey, aged 11, were upset and separated from their pony and cutter on their way home from attending school at Holmfield yesterday.
Many people turned out to seek the children and kept up the search all night. This morning the boy called at one of the neighbors. His feet and face were frozen, having stayed in a strawstack all night. His sister was found by his father, John S. McKelvey a couple of hours later, frozen to death.
Valley City Times-Record, 2/5/1914
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RAY FARMER LOST LIFE UNDER SLEIGH.
HEAVY LOAD OF OATS OVERTURNED PININING PAUL SORENSON TO GROUND
Ray, Feb. 6.—Paul Sorenson, living several miles from this place, was killed under a load of oats which overturned covering him so that he smothered in the grain. His brother who was with him at the time, was quite badly hurt and brought to this place for medical treatment.
Meager reports state that the unfortunate man started for home with a large grain tank full of oats, and while on the road his sled broke down. With a brother and brother-in-law, he secured another tank and after unloading the grain from one sled to the other, started homeward. Fearing the sleigh would overturn two of the boys tried to brace it up over a slanting strip of road but where unable to do so and were caught beneath the overturned sled with the result that one was killed and the other severely injured.
Williston Graphic, 2/7/1918
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