Jacob Van Gorp Accidentally Killed
Word has just reached town that Jacob Van Gorp, son of Marenus Van Gorp, was almost instantly killed at ten o'clock this morning. He was working around a power saw at the school house near Warren's mill when the saw bursted and a piece of the blade struck the unfortunate man in the head, killing him almost instantly. He was a man about thirty years of age and leaves a wife and three children.
Source: Page 1 of The Pella Chronicle, published in Pella, Iowa on Thursday, March 22nd, 1906
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Notes about the school house near Warren's Mill
Warren Country School, Richland Township School #10, Mahaska County, on the Pella to Peoria (and New Sharon) road northeast of Pella. Warren's Mill, the Warren Bridge, and the school, less than 1/2 mile south of the bridge, named after pioneer Robert B. Warren, who established his mill on the Skunk River. Story about the school on p. 346, Mahaska County History book, 1984, also a story on the school in October 10, 1929 - Pella Chronicle. The school closed 1958.
Word has just reached town that Jacob Van Gorp, son of Marenus Van Gorp, was almost instantly killed at ten o'clock this morning. He was working around a power saw at the school house near Warren's mill when the saw bursted and a piece of the blade struck the unfortunate man in the head, killing him almost instantly. He was a man about thirty years of age and leaves a wife and three children.
Source: Page 1 of The Pella Chronicle, published in Pella, Iowa on Thursday, March 22nd, 1906
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Notes about the school house near Warren's Mill
Warren Country School, Richland Township School #10, Mahaska County, on the Pella to Peoria (and New Sharon) road northeast of Pella. Warren's Mill, the Warren Bridge, and the school, less than 1/2 mile south of the bridge, named after pioneer Robert B. Warren, who established his mill on the Skunk River. Story about the school on p. 346, Mahaska County History book, 1984, also a story on the school in October 10, 1929 - Pella Chronicle. The school closed 1958.
Jacob Van Gorp Accidentally Killed
Word has just reached town that Jacob Van Gorp, son of Marenus Van Gorp, was almost instantly killed at ten o'clock this morning. He was working around a power saw at the school house near Warren's mill when the saw bursted and a piece of the blade struck the unfortunate man in the head, killing him almost instantly. He was a man about thirty years of age and leaves a wife and three children.
Source: Page 1 of The Pella Chronicle, published in Pella, Iowa on Thursday, March 22nd, 1906
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Notes about the school house near Warren's Mill
Warren Country School, Richland Township School #10, Mahaska County, on the Pella to Peoria (and New Sharon) road northeast of Pella. Warren's Mill, the Warren Bridge, and the school, less than 1/2 mile south of the bridge, named after pioneer Robert B. Warren, who established his mill on the Skunk River. Story about the school on p. 346, Mahaska County History book, 1984, also a story on the school in October 10, 1929 - Pella Chronicle. The school closed 1958.
Word has just reached town that Jacob Van Gorp, son of Marenus Van Gorp, was almost instantly killed at ten o'clock this morning. He was working around a power saw at the school house near Warren's mill when the saw bursted and a piece of the blade struck the unfortunate man in the head, killing him almost instantly. He was a man about thirty years of age and leaves a wife and three children.
Source: Page 1 of The Pella Chronicle, published in Pella, Iowa on Thursday, March 22nd, 1906
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Notes about the school house near Warren's Mill
Warren Country School, Richland Township School #10, Mahaska County, on the Pella to Peoria (and New Sharon) road northeast of Pella. Warren's Mill, the Warren Bridge, and the school, less than 1/2 mile south of the bridge, named after pioneer Robert B. Warren, who established his mill on the Skunk River. Story about the school on p. 346, Mahaska County History book, 1984, also a story on the school in October 10, 1929 - Pella Chronicle. The school closed 1958.
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