Letter to the Editor of the Mercury, from J.H. Ellis:
Puslinch, Jan 10, 1887 to the Editor of the Mercury:
Having noticed in your edition of the 23rd December last that you had not received the particulars of the accident occurring to Mr. Thomas Robertson by which he lost his life in Walkerville, Montana, on December 9 , I respectively request your space now for these particulars taken mainly from the Butte City Inter-Mountain
About 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Dec 9, a fatal accident occurred on the Alice steam mill, Walkerville, whereby Thos Robertson lost his life. The facts that could be learned are as follows- The engine at the mill had been slackened for the purpose of starting up the ten stamp mill. For some purpose or other the belt that turns the blower for the roaster, where Robertson was at work, came off. He started to go toward the ladder that leads up to the platform where the belt is usually put on, which is 22 feet 4 inches from the drying floor. One of the men who was employed at the roaster with Robertson told him to wait a few moments until he returned, when he would help him, as it usually took two men to put the belt on. With that the two men left for another part of the building, leaving Robertson standing on the drying floor of the mill close to the ladder. They had been gone but a few minutes when they returned. What was their horror to behold poor Robertson lying on the floor with a broken plank beside him. He was lying partly on his left side, endeavouring to rise. His first words were "I fell; the plank must have broke with me, did it not." A litter was soon made and the suffering man tenderly carried to the Alice hospital, where all human aid could do was done. It was found that the injured man had his collar bone broken and the ribs on his right side broken from the back bone, besides internal injuries. During the afternoon he requested that if his wife wished to have his body sent home to see that it was sent. He had full possession of his mental facilities until half past two Friday morning when he became unconscious and in half an hour breathed his last.
The deceased left many sincere friends in this place as well as in his Canadian home, being a man who made friends of all who knew him. The remains were brought home, arriving in Hespeler on the 16th in charge of Neil McCaffray, a fellow workman of the deceased in the mill (who is also a Canadian living in Grey Co near Owen Sound), and interred in Hespeler cemetery on the 17th in the presence of a large number of his many friends.
Deceased was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He was a former resident of Beverly to where he came about thirty years ago, removing to Puslinch in the spring of 1878. He was 49 years old at the time of his death. He leaves a widow and family of eight, four sons and four daughter to mourn his untimely death, but who have the consolation of knowing that his change is for the better, he having always been a consistent Christian and expressing in his last hours a firm unshaken faith in the goodness of God.
J. H. Ellis.
Contributor: Smithy (47806284)
Puslinch, Jan 10, 1887 to the Editor of the Mercury:
Having noticed in your edition of the 23rd December last that you had not received the particulars of the accident occurring to Mr. Thomas Robertson by which he lost his life in Walkerville, Montana, on December 9 , I respectively request your space now for these particulars taken mainly from the Butte City Inter-Mountain
About 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Dec 9, a fatal accident occurred on the Alice steam mill, Walkerville, whereby Thos Robertson lost his life. The facts that could be learned are as follows- The engine at the mill had been slackened for the purpose of starting up the ten stamp mill. For some purpose or other the belt that turns the blower for the roaster, where Robertson was at work, came off. He started to go toward the ladder that leads up to the platform where the belt is usually put on, which is 22 feet 4 inches from the drying floor. One of the men who was employed at the roaster with Robertson told him to wait a few moments until he returned, when he would help him, as it usually took two men to put the belt on. With that the two men left for another part of the building, leaving Robertson standing on the drying floor of the mill close to the ladder. They had been gone but a few minutes when they returned. What was their horror to behold poor Robertson lying on the floor with a broken plank beside him. He was lying partly on his left side, endeavouring to rise. His first words were "I fell; the plank must have broke with me, did it not." A litter was soon made and the suffering man tenderly carried to the Alice hospital, where all human aid could do was done. It was found that the injured man had his collar bone broken and the ribs on his right side broken from the back bone, besides internal injuries. During the afternoon he requested that if his wife wished to have his body sent home to see that it was sent. He had full possession of his mental facilities until half past two Friday morning when he became unconscious and in half an hour breathed his last.
The deceased left many sincere friends in this place as well as in his Canadian home, being a man who made friends of all who knew him. The remains were brought home, arriving in Hespeler on the 16th in charge of Neil McCaffray, a fellow workman of the deceased in the mill (who is also a Canadian living in Grey Co near Owen Sound), and interred in Hespeler cemetery on the 17th in the presence of a large number of his many friends.
Deceased was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He was a former resident of Beverly to where he came about thirty years ago, removing to Puslinch in the spring of 1878. He was 49 years old at the time of his death. He leaves a widow and family of eight, four sons and four daughter to mourn his untimely death, but who have the consolation of knowing that his change is for the better, he having always been a consistent Christian and expressing in his last hours a firm unshaken faith in the goodness of God.
J. H. Ellis.
Contributor: Smithy (47806284)
Letter to the Editor of the Mercury, from J.H. Ellis:
Puslinch, Jan 10, 1887 to the Editor of the Mercury:
Having noticed in your edition of the 23rd December last that you had not received the particulars of the accident occurring to Mr. Thomas Robertson by which he lost his life in Walkerville, Montana, on December 9 , I respectively request your space now for these particulars taken mainly from the Butte City Inter-Mountain
About 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Dec 9, a fatal accident occurred on the Alice steam mill, Walkerville, whereby Thos Robertson lost his life. The facts that could be learned are as follows- The engine at the mill had been slackened for the purpose of starting up the ten stamp mill. For some purpose or other the belt that turns the blower for the roaster, where Robertson was at work, came off. He started to go toward the ladder that leads up to the platform where the belt is usually put on, which is 22 feet 4 inches from the drying floor. One of the men who was employed at the roaster with Robertson told him to wait a few moments until he returned, when he would help him, as it usually took two men to put the belt on. With that the two men left for another part of the building, leaving Robertson standing on the drying floor of the mill close to the ladder. They had been gone but a few minutes when they returned. What was their horror to behold poor Robertson lying on the floor with a broken plank beside him. He was lying partly on his left side, endeavouring to rise. His first words were "I fell; the plank must have broke with me, did it not." A litter was soon made and the suffering man tenderly carried to the Alice hospital, where all human aid could do was done. It was found that the injured man had his collar bone broken and the ribs on his right side broken from the back bone, besides internal injuries. During the afternoon he requested that if his wife wished to have his body sent home to see that it was sent. He had full possession of his mental facilities until half past two Friday morning when he became unconscious and in half an hour breathed his last.
The deceased left many sincere friends in this place as well as in his Canadian home, being a man who made friends of all who knew him. The remains were brought home, arriving in Hespeler on the 16th in charge of Neil McCaffray, a fellow workman of the deceased in the mill (who is also a Canadian living in Grey Co near Owen Sound), and interred in Hespeler cemetery on the 17th in the presence of a large number of his many friends.
Deceased was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He was a former resident of Beverly to where he came about thirty years ago, removing to Puslinch in the spring of 1878. He was 49 years old at the time of his death. He leaves a widow and family of eight, four sons and four daughter to mourn his untimely death, but who have the consolation of knowing that his change is for the better, he having always been a consistent Christian and expressing in his last hours a firm unshaken faith in the goodness of God.
J. H. Ellis.
Contributor: Smithy (47806284)
Puslinch, Jan 10, 1887 to the Editor of the Mercury:
Having noticed in your edition of the 23rd December last that you had not received the particulars of the accident occurring to Mr. Thomas Robertson by which he lost his life in Walkerville, Montana, on December 9 , I respectively request your space now for these particulars taken mainly from the Butte City Inter-Mountain
About 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Dec 9, a fatal accident occurred on the Alice steam mill, Walkerville, whereby Thos Robertson lost his life. The facts that could be learned are as follows- The engine at the mill had been slackened for the purpose of starting up the ten stamp mill. For some purpose or other the belt that turns the blower for the roaster, where Robertson was at work, came off. He started to go toward the ladder that leads up to the platform where the belt is usually put on, which is 22 feet 4 inches from the drying floor. One of the men who was employed at the roaster with Robertson told him to wait a few moments until he returned, when he would help him, as it usually took two men to put the belt on. With that the two men left for another part of the building, leaving Robertson standing on the drying floor of the mill close to the ladder. They had been gone but a few minutes when they returned. What was their horror to behold poor Robertson lying on the floor with a broken plank beside him. He was lying partly on his left side, endeavouring to rise. His first words were "I fell; the plank must have broke with me, did it not." A litter was soon made and the suffering man tenderly carried to the Alice hospital, where all human aid could do was done. It was found that the injured man had his collar bone broken and the ribs on his right side broken from the back bone, besides internal injuries. During the afternoon he requested that if his wife wished to have his body sent home to see that it was sent. He had full possession of his mental facilities until half past two Friday morning when he became unconscious and in half an hour breathed his last.
The deceased left many sincere friends in this place as well as in his Canadian home, being a man who made friends of all who knew him. The remains were brought home, arriving in Hespeler on the 16th in charge of Neil McCaffray, a fellow workman of the deceased in the mill (who is also a Canadian living in Grey Co near Owen Sound), and interred in Hespeler cemetery on the 17th in the presence of a large number of his many friends.
Deceased was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He was a former resident of Beverly to where he came about thirty years ago, removing to Puslinch in the spring of 1878. He was 49 years old at the time of his death. He leaves a widow and family of eight, four sons and four daughter to mourn his untimely death, but who have the consolation of knowing that his change is for the better, he having always been a consistent Christian and expressing in his last hours a firm unshaken faith in the goodness of God.
J. H. Ellis.
Contributor: Smithy (47806284)
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