Parents Samuel Rich, 1785-1851 & Thankful Bangs, 1793-1880.
A fellow Find a Grave Contributor has supplied the following:
During the 1907 to 1910 construction of the Pilgrim Monument in Provincetown (the tallest granite structure in the United States), Rosilla Bangs was killed in a strange accident. Lightning struck one of the special rail cars used to transport the granite up High Pole Hill where the Monument was being constructed. The car broke loose from its fastenings and rolled rapidly down the hill towards a timber barrier placed across the bottom of the hill in anticipation of an accident like this one. The car was moving with such tremendous speed that it crashed through the barrier and flew across the street where Mrs. Rosilla Bangs, 85, was standing on the sidewalk paralyzed with fear. Unfortunately she was directly in the path of the speeding rail car and was killed instantly.
A fellow Find a Grave Contributor has supplied the following:
During the 1907 to 1910 construction of the Pilgrim Monument in Provincetown (the tallest granite structure in the United States), Rosilla Bangs was killed in a strange accident. Lightning struck one of the special rail cars used to transport the granite up High Pole Hill where the Monument was being constructed. The car broke loose from its fastenings and rolled rapidly down the hill towards a timber barrier placed across the bottom of the hill in anticipation of an accident like this one. The car was moving with such tremendous speed that it crashed through the barrier and flew across the street where Mrs. Rosilla Bangs, 85, was standing on the sidewalk paralyzed with fear. Unfortunately she was directly in the path of the speeding rail car and was killed instantly.
Parents Samuel Rich, 1785-1851 & Thankful Bangs, 1793-1880.
A fellow Find a Grave Contributor has supplied the following:
During the 1907 to 1910 construction of the Pilgrim Monument in Provincetown (the tallest granite structure in the United States), Rosilla Bangs was killed in a strange accident. Lightning struck one of the special rail cars used to transport the granite up High Pole Hill where the Monument was being constructed. The car broke loose from its fastenings and rolled rapidly down the hill towards a timber barrier placed across the bottom of the hill in anticipation of an accident like this one. The car was moving with such tremendous speed that it crashed through the barrier and flew across the street where Mrs. Rosilla Bangs, 85, was standing on the sidewalk paralyzed with fear. Unfortunately she was directly in the path of the speeding rail car and was killed instantly.
A fellow Find a Grave Contributor has supplied the following:
During the 1907 to 1910 construction of the Pilgrim Monument in Provincetown (the tallest granite structure in the United States), Rosilla Bangs was killed in a strange accident. Lightning struck one of the special rail cars used to transport the granite up High Pole Hill where the Monument was being constructed. The car broke loose from its fastenings and rolled rapidly down the hill towards a timber barrier placed across the bottom of the hill in anticipation of an accident like this one. The car was moving with such tremendous speed that it crashed through the barrier and flew across the street where Mrs. Rosilla Bangs, 85, was standing on the sidewalk paralyzed with fear. Unfortunately she was directly in the path of the speeding rail car and was killed instantly.
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