SURVIVED GERMAN BAYONET TO BE KILLED BY GAS ENGINE
Burnace A. Mewmaw, 22 years old, an employee of the Ohio Oil company, met a horrible death Tuesday morning in the engine room of a well on the Kinney lease, operated by the Ohio company. Mewmaw's right arm was caught in the clutch of a gas engine, causing his body to be revolved countless times, each time striking the floor, tearing the right arm from the socket, carrying away one side of the face, breaking both jaws as well as every bone above the hips and badly lacerating the flesh. In spite of his terrible injuries Mewmaw was conscious, when found, and as able to articulate feebly for more than an hour, when he died.
The well crew was engaged in cleaning a well on the Kinney lease. Mewmaw was alone in the engine house and it is supposed that while engaged in regulating the engine his glove caught in the clutch.
G. R. Sloan, who came from the east with him about three months ago, was absent from the engine house about 15 minutes. When he again entered the house he was horrified to see his friend's body helplessly revolving about the fly wheel, striking the floor violently at every turn. Sloan stopped the engine and as soon as possible disengaged Mewmaw's body from the machinery, a process that required about 15 minutes.
Mewmaw was taken to a nearby house. He was still conscious but in terrible pain. He asked Sloan to look after his mail and then begged those about him to put an end to his suffering by shooting him.
Mewmaw had been in the employ of the Ohio company about three months. He was an athlete, especially proficient in wrestling, and had made many friends in camp. He served about two years in the Canadian army and in one battle was bayonetted by a German, incapacitating him for service for several months.
The body was shipped Wednesday to Mewmaw's former home at Robinson, Ill., Sloan accompanying the remains.
---Glenrock Gazette, Glenrock, WY, Oct. 30, 1919
(Obituary provided by Betty Alberts, FAG Member #47293729)
Burnace A. Mewmaw, 22 years old, an employee of the Ohio Oil company, met a horrible death Tuesday morning in the engine room of a well on the Kinney lease, operated by the Ohio company. Mewmaw's right arm was caught in the clutch of a gas engine, causing his body to be revolved countless times, each time striking the floor, tearing the right arm from the socket, carrying away one side of the face, breaking both jaws as well as every bone above the hips and badly lacerating the flesh. In spite of his terrible injuries Mewmaw was conscious, when found, and as able to articulate feebly for more than an hour, when he died.
The well crew was engaged in cleaning a well on the Kinney lease. Mewmaw was alone in the engine house and it is supposed that while engaged in regulating the engine his glove caught in the clutch.
G. R. Sloan, who came from the east with him about three months ago, was absent from the engine house about 15 minutes. When he again entered the house he was horrified to see his friend's body helplessly revolving about the fly wheel, striking the floor violently at every turn. Sloan stopped the engine and as soon as possible disengaged Mewmaw's body from the machinery, a process that required about 15 minutes.
Mewmaw was taken to a nearby house. He was still conscious but in terrible pain. He asked Sloan to look after his mail and then begged those about him to put an end to his suffering by shooting him.
Mewmaw had been in the employ of the Ohio company about three months. He was an athlete, especially proficient in wrestling, and had made many friends in camp. He served about two years in the Canadian army and in one battle was bayonetted by a German, incapacitating him for service for several months.
The body was shipped Wednesday to Mewmaw's former home at Robinson, Ill., Sloan accompanying the remains.
---Glenrock Gazette, Glenrock, WY, Oct. 30, 1919
(Obituary provided by Betty Alberts, FAG Member #47293729)
SURVIVED GERMAN BAYONET TO BE KILLED BY GAS ENGINE
Burnace A. Mewmaw, 22 years old, an employee of the Ohio Oil company, met a horrible death Tuesday morning in the engine room of a well on the Kinney lease, operated by the Ohio company. Mewmaw's right arm was caught in the clutch of a gas engine, causing his body to be revolved countless times, each time striking the floor, tearing the right arm from the socket, carrying away one side of the face, breaking both jaws as well as every bone above the hips and badly lacerating the flesh. In spite of his terrible injuries Mewmaw was conscious, when found, and as able to articulate feebly for more than an hour, when he died.
The well crew was engaged in cleaning a well on the Kinney lease. Mewmaw was alone in the engine house and it is supposed that while engaged in regulating the engine his glove caught in the clutch.
G. R. Sloan, who came from the east with him about three months ago, was absent from the engine house about 15 minutes. When he again entered the house he was horrified to see his friend's body helplessly revolving about the fly wheel, striking the floor violently at every turn. Sloan stopped the engine and as soon as possible disengaged Mewmaw's body from the machinery, a process that required about 15 minutes.
Mewmaw was taken to a nearby house. He was still conscious but in terrible pain. He asked Sloan to look after his mail and then begged those about him to put an end to his suffering by shooting him.
Mewmaw had been in the employ of the Ohio company about three months. He was an athlete, especially proficient in wrestling, and had made many friends in camp. He served about two years in the Canadian army and in one battle was bayonetted by a German, incapacitating him for service for several months.
The body was shipped Wednesday to Mewmaw's former home at Robinson, Ill., Sloan accompanying the remains.
---Glenrock Gazette, Glenrock, WY, Oct. 30, 1919
(Obituary provided by Betty Alberts, FAG Member #47293729)
Burnace A. Mewmaw, 22 years old, an employee of the Ohio Oil company, met a horrible death Tuesday morning in the engine room of a well on the Kinney lease, operated by the Ohio company. Mewmaw's right arm was caught in the clutch of a gas engine, causing his body to be revolved countless times, each time striking the floor, tearing the right arm from the socket, carrying away one side of the face, breaking both jaws as well as every bone above the hips and badly lacerating the flesh. In spite of his terrible injuries Mewmaw was conscious, when found, and as able to articulate feebly for more than an hour, when he died.
The well crew was engaged in cleaning a well on the Kinney lease. Mewmaw was alone in the engine house and it is supposed that while engaged in regulating the engine his glove caught in the clutch.
G. R. Sloan, who came from the east with him about three months ago, was absent from the engine house about 15 minutes. When he again entered the house he was horrified to see his friend's body helplessly revolving about the fly wheel, striking the floor violently at every turn. Sloan stopped the engine and as soon as possible disengaged Mewmaw's body from the machinery, a process that required about 15 minutes.
Mewmaw was taken to a nearby house. He was still conscious but in terrible pain. He asked Sloan to look after his mail and then begged those about him to put an end to his suffering by shooting him.
Mewmaw had been in the employ of the Ohio company about three months. He was an athlete, especially proficient in wrestling, and had made many friends in camp. He served about two years in the Canadian army and in one battle was bayonetted by a German, incapacitating him for service for several months.
The body was shipped Wednesday to Mewmaw's former home at Robinson, Ill., Sloan accompanying the remains.
---Glenrock Gazette, Glenrock, WY, Oct. 30, 1919
(Obituary provided by Betty Alberts, FAG Member #47293729)
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