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Robert C Staples

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Robert C Staples

Birth
Hillsboro, Washington County, Oregon, USA
Death
4 Sep 1900 (aged 30)
Oxnard, Ventura County, California, USA
Burial
Pomona, Los Angeles County, California, USA Add to Map
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CRUSHED TO DEATH IN SUGAR FACTORY.
AWFUL DEATH OF HEAD MACHINIST ROBERT STAPLES AT THE OXNARD PLANT.
VENTURA Sept. 5.— Robert Staples of Chino, the head machinist, was instantly killed in the Oxnard sugar factory late yesterday afternoon. He was repairing a mammoth idler of 1600 revolutions per minute, when it suddenly started, crushing his head. Staples was 35 [sic, 30] years old. He leaves a mother and brother in Chlno. Coroner Reilly shipped the body to his home tonight.
(San Francisco Call, Volume 87, Number 98, September 6, 1900; 7:4)

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CRUSHED TO DEATH IN SUGAR FACTORY.
AWFUL DEATH OF HEAD MACHINIST ROBERT STAPLES AT THE OXNARD PLANT.
VENTURA Sept. 5.— Robert Staples of Chino, the head machinist, was instantly killed in the Oxnard sugar factory late yesterday afternoon. He was repairing a mammoth idler of 1600 revolutions per minute, when it suddenly started, crushing his head. Staples was 35 [sic, 30] years old. He leaves a mother and brother in Chlno. Coroner Reilly shipped the body to his home tonight.
(San Francisco Call, Volume 87, Number 98, September 6, 1900; 7:4)

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