Columbus Journal, August 8, 1900
DIED
TREBA--John Treba, a Polish farmer living in Loup township, eight miles west of this city, was killed in a runaway accident last Saturday afternoon. He had brought in a load of corn and started to return about 1 o'clock. When near the Chris. Meedel school house he was thrown from his wagon and suffered a severe concussion of the brain, from which he died shortly after.
Just how the accident occurred will probably never be known as no one witnessed it and the unfortunate man never regained consciousness. From the appearance of the surroundings it would seem that either the tongue had broken, or fell down, as the ground was torn up in a couple of places and splinters of the tongue were found upon the ground. Treba had evidently been thrown heavily out, and either a horse had stepped upon his face or a wheel run over him, as the face and front of the head were badly cut and bruised. One of the horses ran to the farm of Chris. Meedel and the other one ran home, just one mile west of the scene of the accident. The unfortunate man probably laid where he fell for forty minutes before assistance came.
J.H. Bushnell and J.M. Curtis who were going to Mr. Meedel's to look up a site for a day's outing, found him where he lay, just as the wife and a son of Mr. Meedel came with a buggy--the returning horses having given the alarm. When the wife first saw him, she supposed him to be dead, as there was very little sign of life, and her grief was most pitiful to behold. A little water brought from the school house revived him somewhat, so that he commenced to breathe, though with great difficulty. He was placed in a buggy and taken home, where he died in less than an hour.
Mr. Treba was 66 years of age and leaves a wife and several children. He had lived in this county for a number of years, and was fairly well-to-do.
The funeral took place Monday forenoon at 9, with burial at the Catholic cemetery at Duncan.
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DIED
TREBA--John Treba, a Polish farmer living in Loup township, eight miles west of this city, was killed in a runaway accident last Saturday afternoon. He had brought in a load of corn and started to return about 1 o'clock. When near the Chris. Meedel school house he was thrown from his wagon and suffered a severe concussion of the brain, from which he died shortly after.
Just how the accident occurred will probably never be known as no one witnessed it and the unfortunate man never regained consciousness. From the appearance of the surroundings it would seem that either the tongue had broken, or fell down, as the ground was torn up in a couple of places and splinters of the tongue were found upon the ground. Treba had evidently been thrown heavily out, and either a horse had stepped upon his face or a wheel run over him, as the face and front of the head were badly cut and bruised. One of the horses ran to the farm of Chris. Meedel and the other one ran home, just one mile west of the scene of the accident. The unfortunate man probably laid where he fell for forty minutes before assistance came.
J.H. Bushnell and J.M. Curtis who were going to Mr. Meedel's to look up a site for a day's outing, found him where he lay, just as the wife and a son of Mr. Meedel came with a buggy--the returning horses having given the alarm. When the wife first saw him, she supposed him to be dead, as there was very little sign of life, and her grief was most pitiful to behold. A little water brought from the school house revived him somewhat, so that he commenced to breathe, though with great difficulty. He was placed in a buggy and taken home, where he died in less than an hour.
Mr. Treba was 66 years of age and leaves a wife and several children. He had lived in this county for a number of years, and was fairly well-to-do.
The funeral took place Monday forenoon at 9, with burial at the Catholic cemetery at Duncan.
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Columbus Journal, August 8, 1900
DIED
TREBA--John Treba, a Polish farmer living in Loup township, eight miles west of this city, was killed in a runaway accident last Saturday afternoon. He had brought in a load of corn and started to return about 1 o'clock. When near the Chris. Meedel school house he was thrown from his wagon and suffered a severe concussion of the brain, from which he died shortly after.
Just how the accident occurred will probably never be known as no one witnessed it and the unfortunate man never regained consciousness. From the appearance of the surroundings it would seem that either the tongue had broken, or fell down, as the ground was torn up in a couple of places and splinters of the tongue were found upon the ground. Treba had evidently been thrown heavily out, and either a horse had stepped upon his face or a wheel run over him, as the face and front of the head were badly cut and bruised. One of the horses ran to the farm of Chris. Meedel and the other one ran home, just one mile west of the scene of the accident. The unfortunate man probably laid where he fell for forty minutes before assistance came.
J.H. Bushnell and J.M. Curtis who were going to Mr. Meedel's to look up a site for a day's outing, found him where he lay, just as the wife and a son of Mr. Meedel came with a buggy--the returning horses having given the alarm. When the wife first saw him, she supposed him to be dead, as there was very little sign of life, and her grief was most pitiful to behold. A little water brought from the school house revived him somewhat, so that he commenced to breathe, though with great difficulty. He was placed in a buggy and taken home, where he died in less than an hour.
Mr. Treba was 66 years of age and leaves a wife and several children. He had lived in this county for a number of years, and was fairly well-to-do.
The funeral took place Monday forenoon at 9, with burial at the Catholic cemetery at Duncan.
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DIED
TREBA--John Treba, a Polish farmer living in Loup township, eight miles west of this city, was killed in a runaway accident last Saturday afternoon. He had brought in a load of corn and started to return about 1 o'clock. When near the Chris. Meedel school house he was thrown from his wagon and suffered a severe concussion of the brain, from which he died shortly after.
Just how the accident occurred will probably never be known as no one witnessed it and the unfortunate man never regained consciousness. From the appearance of the surroundings it would seem that either the tongue had broken, or fell down, as the ground was torn up in a couple of places and splinters of the tongue were found upon the ground. Treba had evidently been thrown heavily out, and either a horse had stepped upon his face or a wheel run over him, as the face and front of the head were badly cut and bruised. One of the horses ran to the farm of Chris. Meedel and the other one ran home, just one mile west of the scene of the accident. The unfortunate man probably laid where he fell for forty minutes before assistance came.
J.H. Bushnell and J.M. Curtis who were going to Mr. Meedel's to look up a site for a day's outing, found him where he lay, just as the wife and a son of Mr. Meedel came with a buggy--the returning horses having given the alarm. When the wife first saw him, she supposed him to be dead, as there was very little sign of life, and her grief was most pitiful to behold. A little water brought from the school house revived him somewhat, so that he commenced to breathe, though with great difficulty. He was placed in a buggy and taken home, where he died in less than an hour.
Mr. Treba was 66 years of age and leaves a wife and several children. He had lived in this county for a number of years, and was fairly well-to-do.
The funeral took place Monday forenoon at 9, with burial at the Catholic cemetery at Duncan.
Contributor: diaNEB (47466150) • [email protected]
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