Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 17, Number 9 [Thursday, July 18, 1912], page 4, column 3
Engineer Is Killed
Engine in the Saw-Mill at Foster City Goes to Pieces
Claud Bishop, the Engineer, Buried in Ruins, Lived But a Few Moments; Others Escape.
Last Friday morning, Claud Bishop, the engineer of the saw-mill of the Morgan Lumber & Cedar Co., lost his life when the engine broke, and Chas. Terrien, fireman, and P.J. Milligan and Olof Olson, who were in the engine-room at the time, narrowly escaped with their lives, unhurt. The same morning the engineer noticed that the engine did not work properly and on investigation discovered a crack in the engine-bed beneath the journal of the crank shaft. It was while the engineer was showing the crack with a lighted candle to the others present in the room that the key in the journal above the crack came out. He pushed it back, but it came out again, and the eccentric rod struck the key, throwing the eccentric rod loose from opposite end, causing the engine-bed to give way with a loud crash. Those present sprang to safety through the door to the boiler-room and through the window to the underpart of the mill. The engineer sprang to the throttle wheel, to shut off the engine, when the fly wheel broke in several pieces striking the walls of the engine-room and burying Bishop under a mass of brick and pieces of iron. The fireman jumped for the top of the boilers to shut of the steam in the pipe leading to the engine. Olof Olson was the first to return through the window, form which he had jumped, and found Bishop lying by the engine beneath the throttle covered with a mass of brick and splinters. Olson carried him out and others helped him to remove him to the office of Dr. Moll, where he expired about twenty minutes later without regaining consciousness. Funeral services were conducted last Monday by Rev. A.K. Scott, of the Baptist church of Iron Mountain, and interment was at the Breen township cemetery at Foster City. The Modern Woodmen, of which he was a member, marched to the cemetery. The funeral was the largest ever seen in Breen township. Mr. Bishop was a popular young man, aged thirty-four years, and was everybody's friends. He is survived by a wife and six children.
Engineer Is Killed
Engine in the Saw-Mill at Foster City Goes to Pieces
Claud Bishop, the Engineer, Buried in Ruins, Lived But a Few Moments; Others Escape.
Last Friday morning, Claud Bishop, the engineer of the saw-mill of the Morgan Lumber & Cedar Co., lost his life when the engine broke, and Chas. Terrien, fireman, and P.J. Milligan and Olof Olson, who were in the engine-room at the time, narrowly escaped with their lives, unhurt. The same morning the engineer noticed that the engine did not work properly and on investigation discovered a crack in the engine-bed beneath the journal of the crank shaft. It was while the engineer was showing the crack with a lighted candle to the others present in the room that the key in the journal above the crack came out. He pushed it back, but it came out again, and the eccentric rod struck the key, throwing the eccentric rod loose from opposite end, causing the engine-bed to give way with a loud crash. Those present sprang to safety through the door to the boiler-room and through the window to the underpart of the mill. The engineer sprang to the throttle wheel, to shut off the engine, when the fly wheel broke in several pieces striking the walls of the engine-room and burying Bishop under a mass of brick and pieces of iron. The fireman jumped for the top of the boilers to shut of the steam in the pipe leading to the engine. Olof Olson was the first to return through the window, form which he had jumped, and found Bishop lying by the engine beneath the throttle covered with a mass of brick and splinters. Olson carried him out and others helped him to remove him to the office of Dr. Moll, where he expired about twenty minutes later without regaining consciousness. Funeral services were conducted last Monday by Rev. A.K. Scott, of the Baptist church of Iron Mountain, and interment was at the Breen township cemetery at Foster City. The Modern Woodmen, of which he was a member, marched to the cemetery. The funeral was the largest ever seen in Breen township. Mr. Bishop was a popular young man, aged thirty-four years, and was everybody's friends. He is survived by a wife and six children.
Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 17, Number 9 [Thursday, July 18, 1912], page 4, column 3
Engineer Is Killed
Engine in the Saw-Mill at Foster City Goes to Pieces
Claud Bishop, the Engineer, Buried in Ruins, Lived But a Few Moments; Others Escape.
Last Friday morning, Claud Bishop, the engineer of the saw-mill of the Morgan Lumber & Cedar Co., lost his life when the engine broke, and Chas. Terrien, fireman, and P.J. Milligan and Olof Olson, who were in the engine-room at the time, narrowly escaped with their lives, unhurt. The same morning the engineer noticed that the engine did not work properly and on investigation discovered a crack in the engine-bed beneath the journal of the crank shaft. It was while the engineer was showing the crack with a lighted candle to the others present in the room that the key in the journal above the crack came out. He pushed it back, but it came out again, and the eccentric rod struck the key, throwing the eccentric rod loose from opposite end, causing the engine-bed to give way with a loud crash. Those present sprang to safety through the door to the boiler-room and through the window to the underpart of the mill. The engineer sprang to the throttle wheel, to shut off the engine, when the fly wheel broke in several pieces striking the walls of the engine-room and burying Bishop under a mass of brick and pieces of iron. The fireman jumped for the top of the boilers to shut of the steam in the pipe leading to the engine. Olof Olson was the first to return through the window, form which he had jumped, and found Bishop lying by the engine beneath the throttle covered with a mass of brick and splinters. Olson carried him out and others helped him to remove him to the office of Dr. Moll, where he expired about twenty minutes later without regaining consciousness. Funeral services were conducted last Monday by Rev. A.K. Scott, of the Baptist church of Iron Mountain, and interment was at the Breen township cemetery at Foster City. The Modern Woodmen, of which he was a member, marched to the cemetery. The funeral was the largest ever seen in Breen township. Mr. Bishop was a popular young man, aged thirty-four years, and was everybody's friends. He is survived by a wife and six children.
Engineer Is Killed
Engine in the Saw-Mill at Foster City Goes to Pieces
Claud Bishop, the Engineer, Buried in Ruins, Lived But a Few Moments; Others Escape.
Last Friday morning, Claud Bishop, the engineer of the saw-mill of the Morgan Lumber & Cedar Co., lost his life when the engine broke, and Chas. Terrien, fireman, and P.J. Milligan and Olof Olson, who were in the engine-room at the time, narrowly escaped with their lives, unhurt. The same morning the engineer noticed that the engine did not work properly and on investigation discovered a crack in the engine-bed beneath the journal of the crank shaft. It was while the engineer was showing the crack with a lighted candle to the others present in the room that the key in the journal above the crack came out. He pushed it back, but it came out again, and the eccentric rod struck the key, throwing the eccentric rod loose from opposite end, causing the engine-bed to give way with a loud crash. Those present sprang to safety through the door to the boiler-room and through the window to the underpart of the mill. The engineer sprang to the throttle wheel, to shut off the engine, when the fly wheel broke in several pieces striking the walls of the engine-room and burying Bishop under a mass of brick and pieces of iron. The fireman jumped for the top of the boilers to shut of the steam in the pipe leading to the engine. Olof Olson was the first to return through the window, form which he had jumped, and found Bishop lying by the engine beneath the throttle covered with a mass of brick and splinters. Olson carried him out and others helped him to remove him to the office of Dr. Moll, where he expired about twenty minutes later without regaining consciousness. Funeral services were conducted last Monday by Rev. A.K. Scott, of the Baptist church of Iron Mountain, and interment was at the Breen township cemetery at Foster City. The Modern Woodmen, of which he was a member, marched to the cemetery. The funeral was the largest ever seen in Breen township. Mr. Bishop was a popular young man, aged thirty-four years, and was everybody's friends. He is survived by a wife and six children.
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JULY 21, 1878
JULY 12, 1912
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