Choteau Acantha (MT), 31 May 1928
Young Farmer Near Conrad Killed By Tractor
Owen Aiken, a young farmer of the Ledger community near Conrad, was killed last Friday afternoon by being crushed under a tractor he was operating and his body was not discovered until Sunday morning when a search was instituted at the behest of his brother who had arrived at the place for a visit. The body was found on a cut bank a short distance from the farm house where Aiken had been living alone.
Aiken had apparently been engaged in the task of dragging a dead mule behind a gasoline tractor with the idea of dumping it over the cut bank but got too close to the edge and the tractor slid over, catching Aiken under it as it rolled down the bank. The body was found half way down the bank while the tractor was at the bottom. Aiken was crushed about the head and chest and it is thought death must have been instantaneous.
The body was brought to Conrad and the funeral will be held from the Starr undertaking parlor Monday afternoon with interment in Hillside cemetery.
Aiken was unmarried and about 22 years old. He had been in the Ledger community about two years and this spring had rented the John Distad farm and had put in a crop. A brother is located in the same community. His parents are in the east.
Young Farmer Near Conrad Killed By Tractor
Owen Aiken, a young farmer of the Ledger community near Conrad, was killed last Friday afternoon by being crushed under a tractor he was operating and his body was not discovered until Sunday morning when a search was instituted at the behest of his brother who had arrived at the place for a visit. The body was found on a cut bank a short distance from the farm house where Aiken had been living alone.
Aiken had apparently been engaged in the task of dragging a dead mule behind a gasoline tractor with the idea of dumping it over the cut bank but got too close to the edge and the tractor slid over, catching Aiken under it as it rolled down the bank. The body was found half way down the bank while the tractor was at the bottom. Aiken was crushed about the head and chest and it is thought death must have been instantaneous.
The body was brought to Conrad and the funeral will be held from the Starr undertaking parlor Monday afternoon with interment in Hillside cemetery.
Aiken was unmarried and about 22 years old. He had been in the Ledger community about two years and this spring had rented the John Distad farm and had put in a crop. A brother is located in the same community. His parents are in the east.
Choteau Acantha (MT), 31 May 1928
Young Farmer Near Conrad Killed By Tractor
Owen Aiken, a young farmer of the Ledger community near Conrad, was killed last Friday afternoon by being crushed under a tractor he was operating and his body was not discovered until Sunday morning when a search was instituted at the behest of his brother who had arrived at the place for a visit. The body was found on a cut bank a short distance from the farm house where Aiken had been living alone.
Aiken had apparently been engaged in the task of dragging a dead mule behind a gasoline tractor with the idea of dumping it over the cut bank but got too close to the edge and the tractor slid over, catching Aiken under it as it rolled down the bank. The body was found half way down the bank while the tractor was at the bottom. Aiken was crushed about the head and chest and it is thought death must have been instantaneous.
The body was brought to Conrad and the funeral will be held from the Starr undertaking parlor Monday afternoon with interment in Hillside cemetery.
Aiken was unmarried and about 22 years old. He had been in the Ledger community about two years and this spring had rented the John Distad farm and had put in a crop. A brother is located in the same community. His parents are in the east.
Young Farmer Near Conrad Killed By Tractor
Owen Aiken, a young farmer of the Ledger community near Conrad, was killed last Friday afternoon by being crushed under a tractor he was operating and his body was not discovered until Sunday morning when a search was instituted at the behest of his brother who had arrived at the place for a visit. The body was found on a cut bank a short distance from the farm house where Aiken had been living alone.
Aiken had apparently been engaged in the task of dragging a dead mule behind a gasoline tractor with the idea of dumping it over the cut bank but got too close to the edge and the tractor slid over, catching Aiken under it as it rolled down the bank. The body was found half way down the bank while the tractor was at the bottom. Aiken was crushed about the head and chest and it is thought death must have been instantaneous.
The body was brought to Conrad and the funeral will be held from the Starr undertaking parlor Monday afternoon with interment in Hillside cemetery.
Aiken was unmarried and about 22 years old. He had been in the Ledger community about two years and this spring had rented the John Distad farm and had put in a crop. A brother is located in the same community. His parents are in the east.
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