Rolling Tractor Crushes Anatone Farmer To Death
Caught beneath a rolling tractor on a Grand Ronde river hillside, Perry Mallory, 32, of Anatone was fatally crushed at 10 o'clock yesterday morning. The accident occurred in the Deer Creek area south of the Grand Ronde near the Ray's Ferry crossing.
Mallory, who was hauling a wagon loaded with a drill behind the tractor, attempted to drive down a sharp incline when the tractor slipped sideways over the frost-covered frozen ground.
His father, Harve A. Mallory, riding horseback nearby, called to his son to jump. Perry Mallory jumped quickly clearing the tractor. But after lighting he paused for a second to look for the load, his father said. At that moment the tractor fell upon him, crushing him again the rocks and frozen ground.
Harve Mallory rushed to his son's side. Perry Mallory rost to his feet.
"I am dying," he said. "Tell them all goodbye for me."
The elder Mallory helped his son to a reclining position and covered him with his own coat, and then started to run for a nearby bunkhouse to get blankets. As he turned to go, Mallory said, his son suddenly slumped into unconsciousness and died.
To reach a telephone, Harve Mallory was obliged to pull himself across the Grand Ronde River via cable basket and walk about four miles uphill to the Lawrence Provost home.
He called Sheriff Hugh Curry, who notified Charles T. Sharp, Asotin county coroner, and W.C. Merchant, Clarkston. The three men traveled to Anatone in cars and they were obliged to travel down over the old Shumaker grade in a jeep driven by the owner, Robert Forgey.
The men all crossed the Grand Ronde twice by cable basket, the second time bringing out Mallory's body. Cable baskets have been used for a river crossing at this point since the old Ray's Ferry bridge was crushed by an ice jam on the river in February 1949.
Born July 24, 1919 at Anatone, Mallory lived in the area all his life, except for interruptions for army service during World War II when he saw duty in Europe. He completed grade and high school at Anatone and was thereafter associated with his father in farming along the Grande Ronde and in the vicinity of Deer Creek, south of the river.
He married Alice Cummings in December, 1950.
Survivors are his wife, 3-month-old daughter, Evelyn, his parents and one brother, Willard Mallory of Troy, Ore. There also are many cousins at Anatone, Asotin and Clarkston.
Lewiston Morning Tribune - Feb 9, 1952, pg 4
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Caught beneath a rolling tractor on a Grand Ronde river hillside, Perry Mallory, 32, of Anatone was fatally crushed at 10 o'clock yesterday morning. The accident occurred in the Deer Creek area south of the Grand Ronde near the Ray's Ferry crossing.
Mallory, who was hauling a wagon loaded with a drill behind the tractor, attempted to drive down a sharp incline when the tractor slipped sideways over the frost-covered frozen ground.
His father, Harve A. Mallory, riding horseback nearby, called to his son to jump. Perry Mallory jumped quickly clearing the tractor. But after lighting he paused for a second to look for the load, his father said. At that moment the tractor fell upon him, crushing him again the rocks and frozen ground.
Harve Mallory rushed to his son's side. Perry Mallory rost to his feet.
"I am dying," he said. "Tell them all goodbye for me."
The elder Mallory helped his son to a reclining position and covered him with his own coat, and then started to run for a nearby bunkhouse to get blankets. As he turned to go, Mallory said, his son suddenly slumped into unconsciousness and died.
To reach a telephone, Harve Mallory was obliged to pull himself across the Grand Ronde River via cable basket and walk about four miles uphill to the Lawrence Provost home.
He called Sheriff Hugh Curry, who notified Charles T. Sharp, Asotin county coroner, and W.C. Merchant, Clarkston. The three men traveled to Anatone in cars and they were obliged to travel down over the old Shumaker grade in a jeep driven by the owner, Robert Forgey.
The men all crossed the Grand Ronde twice by cable basket, the second time bringing out Mallory's body. Cable baskets have been used for a river crossing at this point since the old Ray's Ferry bridge was crushed by an ice jam on the river in February 1949.
Born July 24, 1919 at Anatone, Mallory lived in the area all his life, except for interruptions for army service during World War II when he saw duty in Europe. He completed grade and high school at Anatone and was thereafter associated with his father in farming along the Grande Ronde and in the vicinity of Deer Creek, south of the river.
He married Alice Cummings in December, 1950.
Survivors are his wife, 3-month-old daughter, Evelyn, his parents and one brother, Willard Mallory of Troy, Ore. There also are many cousins at Anatone, Asotin and Clarkston.
Lewiston Morning Tribune - Feb 9, 1952, pg 4
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Rolling Tractor Crushes Anatone Farmer To Death
Caught beneath a rolling tractor on a Grand Ronde river hillside, Perry Mallory, 32, of Anatone was fatally crushed at 10 o'clock yesterday morning. The accident occurred in the Deer Creek area south of the Grand Ronde near the Ray's Ferry crossing.
Mallory, who was hauling a wagon loaded with a drill behind the tractor, attempted to drive down a sharp incline when the tractor slipped sideways over the frost-covered frozen ground.
His father, Harve A. Mallory, riding horseback nearby, called to his son to jump. Perry Mallory jumped quickly clearing the tractor. But after lighting he paused for a second to look for the load, his father said. At that moment the tractor fell upon him, crushing him again the rocks and frozen ground.
Harve Mallory rushed to his son's side. Perry Mallory rost to his feet.
"I am dying," he said. "Tell them all goodbye for me."
The elder Mallory helped his son to a reclining position and covered him with his own coat, and then started to run for a nearby bunkhouse to get blankets. As he turned to go, Mallory said, his son suddenly slumped into unconsciousness and died.
To reach a telephone, Harve Mallory was obliged to pull himself across the Grand Ronde River via cable basket and walk about four miles uphill to the Lawrence Provost home.
He called Sheriff Hugh Curry, who notified Charles T. Sharp, Asotin county coroner, and W.C. Merchant, Clarkston. The three men traveled to Anatone in cars and they were obliged to travel down over the old Shumaker grade in a jeep driven by the owner, Robert Forgey.
The men all crossed the Grand Ronde twice by cable basket, the second time bringing out Mallory's body. Cable baskets have been used for a river crossing at this point since the old Ray's Ferry bridge was crushed by an ice jam on the river in February 1949.
Born July 24, 1919 at Anatone, Mallory lived in the area all his life, except for interruptions for army service during World War II when he saw duty in Europe. He completed grade and high school at Anatone and was thereafter associated with his father in farming along the Grande Ronde and in the vicinity of Deer Creek, south of the river.
He married Alice Cummings in December, 1950.
Survivors are his wife, 3-month-old daughter, Evelyn, his parents and one brother, Willard Mallory of Troy, Ore. There also are many cousins at Anatone, Asotin and Clarkston.
Lewiston Morning Tribune - Feb 9, 1952, pg 4
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Caught beneath a rolling tractor on a Grand Ronde river hillside, Perry Mallory, 32, of Anatone was fatally crushed at 10 o'clock yesterday morning. The accident occurred in the Deer Creek area south of the Grand Ronde near the Ray's Ferry crossing.
Mallory, who was hauling a wagon loaded with a drill behind the tractor, attempted to drive down a sharp incline when the tractor slipped sideways over the frost-covered frozen ground.
His father, Harve A. Mallory, riding horseback nearby, called to his son to jump. Perry Mallory jumped quickly clearing the tractor. But after lighting he paused for a second to look for the load, his father said. At that moment the tractor fell upon him, crushing him again the rocks and frozen ground.
Harve Mallory rushed to his son's side. Perry Mallory rost to his feet.
"I am dying," he said. "Tell them all goodbye for me."
The elder Mallory helped his son to a reclining position and covered him with his own coat, and then started to run for a nearby bunkhouse to get blankets. As he turned to go, Mallory said, his son suddenly slumped into unconsciousness and died.
To reach a telephone, Harve Mallory was obliged to pull himself across the Grand Ronde River via cable basket and walk about four miles uphill to the Lawrence Provost home.
He called Sheriff Hugh Curry, who notified Charles T. Sharp, Asotin county coroner, and W.C. Merchant, Clarkston. The three men traveled to Anatone in cars and they were obliged to travel down over the old Shumaker grade in a jeep driven by the owner, Robert Forgey.
The men all crossed the Grand Ronde twice by cable basket, the second time bringing out Mallory's body. Cable baskets have been used for a river crossing at this point since the old Ray's Ferry bridge was crushed by an ice jam on the river in February 1949.
Born July 24, 1919 at Anatone, Mallory lived in the area all his life, except for interruptions for army service during World War II when he saw duty in Europe. He completed grade and high school at Anatone and was thereafter associated with his father in farming along the Grande Ronde and in the vicinity of Deer Creek, south of the river.
He married Alice Cummings in December, 1950.
Survivors are his wife, 3-month-old daughter, Evelyn, his parents and one brother, Willard Mallory of Troy, Ore. There also are many cousins at Anatone, Asotin and Clarkston.
Lewiston Morning Tribune - Feb 9, 1952, pg 4
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