Urbana Daily - Nov 8, 1883
This morning a terrible accident occurred to Mathew Whalen, a well known young Irishman, which resulted in his death in about an hour after the accident. This morning about 7:00, George E Bechtolt, William Holding and Mathew Whalen started for the woods on a hunting expedition. They went to the Ogden farm east of the city and after hunting there for a short time they went over the Dr HC Pearces farm. Here the party separated, Bechtolt and Holding going in one direction and Whalen started up what is known as a corduroy road, made of rails and it is supposed that in walking over the rough surface he tripped and fell headlong, and in the fall the gun was discharged and the entire charge entered his legs. Bechtolt and Holding hurried to the scene and found him lying on the ground and the blood flowing freely from the wounds in the legs. He was only conscious a few minutes. A messenger was immediately sent to the city for Dr SM and WA Mosgrove who hurried to the scene but he died about 15 minutes before they arrived. They made an examination of the wounds and found that the entire charge entered the right leg about 5 inches above the knee and plowed through the surface making a wound of 4 inches long and 3 wide and into the left thigh on a line of the inner anterior surface, making another wound of 2 inches and 1 inch wide and death ensued from the shock and excessive bleeding.
The deceased was 26 years of age and was quiet and industrious young man. He had been employed with Geo Bechtolt for the past 9 years and was regarded as a faithful and hardworking man. He leaves a wife who is completely broken down over the sad fate which has taken away her husband. Deceased was a Warden of St Marys Church and a member of the United Sons of Hibernia.
This morning a terrible accident occurred to Mathew Whalen, a well known young Irishman, which resulted in his death in about an hour after the accident. This morning about 7:00, George E Bechtolt, William Holding and Mathew Whalen started for the woods on a hunting expedition. They went to the Ogden farm east of the city and after hunting there for a short time they went over the Dr HC Pearces farm. Here the party separated, Bechtolt and Holding going in one direction and Whalen started up what is known as a corduroy road, made of rails and it is supposed that in walking over the rough surface he tripped and fell headlong, and in the fall the gun was discharged and the entire charge entered his legs. Bechtolt and Holding hurried to the scene and found him lying on the ground and the blood flowing freely from the wounds in the legs. He was only conscious a few minutes. A messenger was immediately sent to the city for Dr SM and WA Mosgrove who hurried to the scene but he died about 15 minutes before they arrived. They made an examination of the wounds and found that the entire charge entered the right leg about 5 inches above the knee and plowed through the surface making a wound of 4 inches long and 3 wide and into the left thigh on a line of the inner anterior surface, making another wound of 2 inches and 1 inch wide and death ensued from the shock and excessive bleeding.
The deceased was 26 years of age and was quiet and industrious young man. He had been employed with Geo Bechtolt for the past 9 years and was regarded as a faithful and hardworking man. He leaves a wife who is completely broken down over the sad fate which has taken away her husband. Deceased was a Warden of St Marys Church and a member of the United Sons of Hibernia.
Urbana Daily - Nov 8, 1883
This morning a terrible accident occurred to Mathew Whalen, a well known young Irishman, which resulted in his death in about an hour after the accident. This morning about 7:00, George E Bechtolt, William Holding and Mathew Whalen started for the woods on a hunting expedition. They went to the Ogden farm east of the city and after hunting there for a short time they went over the Dr HC Pearces farm. Here the party separated, Bechtolt and Holding going in one direction and Whalen started up what is known as a corduroy road, made of rails and it is supposed that in walking over the rough surface he tripped and fell headlong, and in the fall the gun was discharged and the entire charge entered his legs. Bechtolt and Holding hurried to the scene and found him lying on the ground and the blood flowing freely from the wounds in the legs. He was only conscious a few minutes. A messenger was immediately sent to the city for Dr SM and WA Mosgrove who hurried to the scene but he died about 15 minutes before they arrived. They made an examination of the wounds and found that the entire charge entered the right leg about 5 inches above the knee and plowed through the surface making a wound of 4 inches long and 3 wide and into the left thigh on a line of the inner anterior surface, making another wound of 2 inches and 1 inch wide and death ensued from the shock and excessive bleeding.
The deceased was 26 years of age and was quiet and industrious young man. He had been employed with Geo Bechtolt for the past 9 years and was regarded as a faithful and hardworking man. He leaves a wife who is completely broken down over the sad fate which has taken away her husband. Deceased was a Warden of St Marys Church and a member of the United Sons of Hibernia.
This morning a terrible accident occurred to Mathew Whalen, a well known young Irishman, which resulted in his death in about an hour after the accident. This morning about 7:00, George E Bechtolt, William Holding and Mathew Whalen started for the woods on a hunting expedition. They went to the Ogden farm east of the city and after hunting there for a short time they went over the Dr HC Pearces farm. Here the party separated, Bechtolt and Holding going in one direction and Whalen started up what is known as a corduroy road, made of rails and it is supposed that in walking over the rough surface he tripped and fell headlong, and in the fall the gun was discharged and the entire charge entered his legs. Bechtolt and Holding hurried to the scene and found him lying on the ground and the blood flowing freely from the wounds in the legs. He was only conscious a few minutes. A messenger was immediately sent to the city for Dr SM and WA Mosgrove who hurried to the scene but he died about 15 minutes before they arrived. They made an examination of the wounds and found that the entire charge entered the right leg about 5 inches above the knee and plowed through the surface making a wound of 4 inches long and 3 wide and into the left thigh on a line of the inner anterior surface, making another wound of 2 inches and 1 inch wide and death ensued from the shock and excessive bleeding.
The deceased was 26 years of age and was quiet and industrious young man. He had been employed with Geo Bechtolt for the past 9 years and was regarded as a faithful and hardworking man. He leaves a wife who is completely broken down over the sad fate which has taken away her husband. Deceased was a Warden of St Marys Church and a member of the United Sons of Hibernia.
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