ARISTA HANCOCK, THE TWELVE YEAR OLD SON OF JAMES HANCOCK OF STONE
BLUFF, MET WITH A TRAGIC DEATH SATURDAY. THE BOY IN COMPANY WITH HIS
BROTHER WENT INTO THE ENGINE ROOM AT JONES BROS. ELEVATOR AND ARISTA
WAS LOOKING INTO THE GRAIN CONVEYOR WHEN BY SOME MEANS HIS COAT GOT
CAUGHT IN A SHAFT AND IN A SECOND THE BOY WAS BEING WHIPPED AROUND THE
RAPIDLY MOVING SHAFT. THERE WAS A BRICK PILLAR ABOUT TWO FEET SQUARE
NEAR THE SHAFT AND IN EVERY REVOLUTION THE HELPLESS BOY WAS THROWN
AGAINST THE PILLAR WITH TERRIBLE FORCE. HIS BROTHER MADE A HEROIC
EFFORT TO RELEASE HIM BUT COULD NOT DO SO AND IT WAS ONLY WHEN THE
MACHINERY WAS STOPPED THAT HE WAS FREED FROM THE SHAFT. HE WAS BADLY
MANGLED THOUGH STILL ALIVE, MEDICAL AID WAS QUICKLY SUMMONED, BUT IT
WAS OF NO AVAIL AS HE DIED WITHOUT EVER REGAINING CONSCIOUSNESS.
THE ACCIDENT CAST A GLOOM OVER THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY AS THE BOY
WAS WELL LIKED AND THE SORROW STRICKEN PARENTS HAVE THE SYMPATHY OF
EVERYONE IN THEIR HOURS OF DEEP SORROW.
THE FUNERAL WAS HELD MONDAY. INTERMENT IN THE OSBORN PRAIRIE
CEMETERY.
BLUFF, MET WITH A TRAGIC DEATH SATURDAY. THE BOY IN COMPANY WITH HIS
BROTHER WENT INTO THE ENGINE ROOM AT JONES BROS. ELEVATOR AND ARISTA
WAS LOOKING INTO THE GRAIN CONVEYOR WHEN BY SOME MEANS HIS COAT GOT
CAUGHT IN A SHAFT AND IN A SECOND THE BOY WAS BEING WHIPPED AROUND THE
RAPIDLY MOVING SHAFT. THERE WAS A BRICK PILLAR ABOUT TWO FEET SQUARE
NEAR THE SHAFT AND IN EVERY REVOLUTION THE HELPLESS BOY WAS THROWN
AGAINST THE PILLAR WITH TERRIBLE FORCE. HIS BROTHER MADE A HEROIC
EFFORT TO RELEASE HIM BUT COULD NOT DO SO AND IT WAS ONLY WHEN THE
MACHINERY WAS STOPPED THAT HE WAS FREED FROM THE SHAFT. HE WAS BADLY
MANGLED THOUGH STILL ALIVE, MEDICAL AID WAS QUICKLY SUMMONED, BUT IT
WAS OF NO AVAIL AS HE DIED WITHOUT EVER REGAINING CONSCIOUSNESS.
THE ACCIDENT CAST A GLOOM OVER THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY AS THE BOY
WAS WELL LIKED AND THE SORROW STRICKEN PARENTS HAVE THE SYMPATHY OF
EVERYONE IN THEIR HOURS OF DEEP SORROW.
THE FUNERAL WAS HELD MONDAY. INTERMENT IN THE OSBORN PRAIRIE
CEMETERY.
ARISTA HANCOCK, THE TWELVE YEAR OLD SON OF JAMES HANCOCK OF STONE
BLUFF, MET WITH A TRAGIC DEATH SATURDAY. THE BOY IN COMPANY WITH HIS
BROTHER WENT INTO THE ENGINE ROOM AT JONES BROS. ELEVATOR AND ARISTA
WAS LOOKING INTO THE GRAIN CONVEYOR WHEN BY SOME MEANS HIS COAT GOT
CAUGHT IN A SHAFT AND IN A SECOND THE BOY WAS BEING WHIPPED AROUND THE
RAPIDLY MOVING SHAFT. THERE WAS A BRICK PILLAR ABOUT TWO FEET SQUARE
NEAR THE SHAFT AND IN EVERY REVOLUTION THE HELPLESS BOY WAS THROWN
AGAINST THE PILLAR WITH TERRIBLE FORCE. HIS BROTHER MADE A HEROIC
EFFORT TO RELEASE HIM BUT COULD NOT DO SO AND IT WAS ONLY WHEN THE
MACHINERY WAS STOPPED THAT HE WAS FREED FROM THE SHAFT. HE WAS BADLY
MANGLED THOUGH STILL ALIVE, MEDICAL AID WAS QUICKLY SUMMONED, BUT IT
WAS OF NO AVAIL AS HE DIED WITHOUT EVER REGAINING CONSCIOUSNESS.
THE ACCIDENT CAST A GLOOM OVER THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY AS THE BOY
WAS WELL LIKED AND THE SORROW STRICKEN PARENTS HAVE THE SYMPATHY OF
EVERYONE IN THEIR HOURS OF DEEP SORROW.
THE FUNERAL WAS HELD MONDAY. INTERMENT IN THE OSBORN PRAIRIE
CEMETERY.
BLUFF, MET WITH A TRAGIC DEATH SATURDAY. THE BOY IN COMPANY WITH HIS
BROTHER WENT INTO THE ENGINE ROOM AT JONES BROS. ELEVATOR AND ARISTA
WAS LOOKING INTO THE GRAIN CONVEYOR WHEN BY SOME MEANS HIS COAT GOT
CAUGHT IN A SHAFT AND IN A SECOND THE BOY WAS BEING WHIPPED AROUND THE
RAPIDLY MOVING SHAFT. THERE WAS A BRICK PILLAR ABOUT TWO FEET SQUARE
NEAR THE SHAFT AND IN EVERY REVOLUTION THE HELPLESS BOY WAS THROWN
AGAINST THE PILLAR WITH TERRIBLE FORCE. HIS BROTHER MADE A HEROIC
EFFORT TO RELEASE HIM BUT COULD NOT DO SO AND IT WAS ONLY WHEN THE
MACHINERY WAS STOPPED THAT HE WAS FREED FROM THE SHAFT. HE WAS BADLY
MANGLED THOUGH STILL ALIVE, MEDICAL AID WAS QUICKLY SUMMONED, BUT IT
WAS OF NO AVAIL AS HE DIED WITHOUT EVER REGAINING CONSCIOUSNESS.
THE ACCIDENT CAST A GLOOM OVER THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY AS THE BOY
WAS WELL LIKED AND THE SORROW STRICKEN PARENTS HAVE THE SYMPATHY OF
EVERYONE IN THEIR HOURS OF DEEP SORROW.
THE FUNERAL WAS HELD MONDAY. INTERMENT IN THE OSBORN PRAIRIE
CEMETERY.
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