The centrifugal clothes wringer which is run by steam at the hospital for the insane about three miles from Yankton, while going at an unusual rate of speed, Charles Vandyke, head laundryman, was struck in the side by a piece of iron and probably injured fatally. Maurice Fitzgerald had an arm broken and two or three others were slightly injured. The building was somewhat damaged.

The Bad Lands Cow Boy, 11/27/1884