Suggested edit: ALMOST INSTANTLY KILLED
Fatal Accident to Thresher Near Newman Grove.
Newman Grove, Neb, Nov. 1 — August Bartells, a prominent German farmer of this community, while helping his neighbor Martin Paulson, at threshing yesterday met with an accident which resulted in his death last night. Mr. Bartells was pitching bundles into the feeder when his pitchfork was caught by the driving belt and wrested from his hands, the end of the fork handle, which was thrown with terrific force, striking him in the abdominal region and knocked him down. The fork continued its wicked flight until it reached the fly-wheel of the engine when it was loosened, flying through the air over the separator and beyond the straw stack, its whizzing being the first intimation the other workers around the machine had of the accident. Dr. Frink was sent for and found the man was bleeding to death from internal hemorrhage, in fact the pulse was gone upon the arrival of the doctor, the blood having gathered and formed a great pouch to the right of the navel. An examination showed that the bowels had been torn from the stomach. He leaves a wife and four boys, the oldest about twelve year of age, in comfortable circumstances.
Albion News
Albion, Nebraska
07 Nov 1902, Fri • Page 4
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75571981/august-bartels-obituary/
Contributor: Grady Higgins (49665850)
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Fatal Accident to Thresher Near Newman Grove.
Newman Grove, Neb, Nov. 1 — August Bartells, a prominent German farmer of this community, while helping his neighbor Martin Paulson, at threshing yesterday met with an accident which resulted in his death last night. Mr. Bartells was pitching bundles into the feeder when his pitchfork was caught by the driving belt and wrested from his hands, the end of the fork handle, which was thrown with terrific force, striking him in the abdominal region and knocked him down. The fork continued its wicked flight until it reached the fly-wheel of the engine when it was loosened, flying through the air over the separator and beyond the straw stack, its whizzing being the first intimation the other workers around the machine had of the accident. Dr. Frink was sent for and found the man was bleeding to death from internal hemorrhage, in fact the pulse was gone upon the arrival of the doctor, the blood having gathered and formed a great pouch to the right of the navel. An examination showed that the bowels had been torn from the stomach. He leaves a wife and four boys, the oldest about twelve year of age, in comfortable circumstances.
Albion News
Albion, Nebraska
07 Nov 1902, Fri • Page 4
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75571981/august-bartels-obituary/
Contributor: Grady Higgins (49665850)
View Memorial
Suggested edit: ALMOST INSTANTLY KILLED
Fatal Accident to Thresher Near Newman Grove.
Newman Grove, Neb, Nov. 1 — August Bartells, a prominent German farmer of this community, while helping his neighbor Martin Paulson, at threshing yesterday met with an accident which resulted in his death last night. Mr. Bartells was pitching bundles into the feeder when his pitchfork was caught by the driving belt and wrested from his hands, the end of the fork handle, which was thrown with terrific force, striking him in the abdominal region and knocked him down. The fork continued its wicked flight until it reached the fly-wheel of the engine when it was loosened, flying through the air over the separator and beyond the straw stack, its whizzing being the first intimation the other workers around the machine had of the accident. Dr. Frink was sent for and found the man was bleeding to death from internal hemorrhage, in fact the pulse was gone upon the arrival of the doctor, the blood having gathered and formed a great pouch to the right of the navel. An examination showed that the bowels had been torn from the stomach. He leaves a wife and four boys, the oldest about twelve year of age, in comfortable circumstances.
Albion News
Albion, Nebraska
07 Nov 1902, Fri • Page 4
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75571981/august-bartels-obituary/
Contributor: Grady Higgins (49665850)
View Memorial
Fatal Accident to Thresher Near Newman Grove.
Newman Grove, Neb, Nov. 1 — August Bartells, a prominent German farmer of this community, while helping his neighbor Martin Paulson, at threshing yesterday met with an accident which resulted in his death last night. Mr. Bartells was pitching bundles into the feeder when his pitchfork was caught by the driving belt and wrested from his hands, the end of the fork handle, which was thrown with terrific force, striking him in the abdominal region and knocked him down. The fork continued its wicked flight until it reached the fly-wheel of the engine when it was loosened, flying through the air over the separator and beyond the straw stack, its whizzing being the first intimation the other workers around the machine had of the accident. Dr. Frink was sent for and found the man was bleeding to death from internal hemorrhage, in fact the pulse was gone upon the arrival of the doctor, the blood having gathered and formed a great pouch to the right of the navel. An examination showed that the bowels had been torn from the stomach. He leaves a wife and four boys, the oldest about twelve year of age, in comfortable circumstances.
Albion News
Albion, Nebraska
07 Nov 1902, Fri • Page 4
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75571981/august-bartels-obituary/
Contributor: Grady Higgins (49665850)
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