August 1934 – Passage. LOGAN, John McArthur, 65, was burned to death at Paradise Friday afternoon when a threshing machine on which he was working exploded. Mr. McArthur was a former resident of Ogden and Avon.

The accident occurred about 1:20 p.m., shortly after the men had returned to work following their dinner hour. Mr. McArthur was standing on top of the separator when it exploded throwing him between the machine and the stacks. All possibility of rescue was shut off when the fire, bursting from the thresher, spread rapidly to the stacks.

The explosion took place on a farm owned by Mrs. P. K. Obray on the west side of the river at Paradise. The machine and wheat and straw stacks were burned. It is estimated that more than 1000 bushels of wheat was destroyed.

Two fire trucks from the Logan fire department started to the scene of the fire. The first truck, while traveling at a high speed, hit a stretch of rough road north of Paradise and was was badly smashed.

Mr. McArthur was born in Wellsville in 1864, a son of Sarah Abbott and John Dickson McArthur. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Selina Obray McArthur; six brothers, four sisters, four daughters and four sons. His sons are John McArthur Jr., Burley, Idaho; Bert McArthur, Magna; Charles McArthur Ogden, and Jess McArthur, Magna.

No funeral arrangements had been made at a late hour Friday night. -From the files of The Salt Lake Tribune, a Salt Lake City, Utah newspaper published Saturday, August 11, 1934, Page 26.


SERVICES - Services were held in the Paradine chapel at two o'clock Sunday August 12, 1934. Burial took place in the Paradise cemetery. His four daughters were: Mrs. Maude Stratford, Mrs. Ada Weaver, and Mrs. Lola Mason, all of Ogden and Mrs. Hilda Newey of Logan.