AWFUL DEATH OF HEAD MACHINIST ROBERT STAPLES AT THE OXNARD PLANT.
VENTURA Sept. 5.— Robert Staples of Chino, the head machinist, was instantly killed in the Oxnard sugar factory late yesterday afternoon. He was repairing a mammoth idler of 1600 revolutions per minute, when it suddenly started, crushing his head. Staples was 35 [sic, 30] years old. He leaves a mother and brother in Chlno. Coroner Reilly shipped the body to his home tonight.
(San Francisco Call, Volume 87, Number 98, September 6, 1900; 7:4)
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AWFUL DEATH OF HEAD MACHINIST ROBERT STAPLES AT THE OXNARD PLANT.
VENTURA Sept. 5.— Robert Staples of Chino, the head machinist, was instantly killed in the Oxnard sugar factory late yesterday afternoon. He was repairing a mammoth idler of 1600 revolutions per minute, when it suddenly started, crushing his head. Staples was 35 [sic, 30] years old. He leaves a mother and brother in Chlno. Coroner Reilly shipped the body to his home tonight.
(San Francisco Call, Volume 87, Number 98, September 6, 1900; 7:4)
(Clipping sleuthed by #47391825)
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