"FATAL ACCIDENT - A Man Killed near Spartansburgh - Yesterday Mr Christopher Baldwin, a teamster, who lives at Spartansburgh, was engaged in hauling lumber to the village. He was about two miles and a half from home, plodding along in the slow way that a team necessarily moves when fully loaded. In company with him was another teamster with lumber. The first intimation of anything out of the usual course of things was the discovery by the last-mentioned that the wheels of the wagon were crushing the life out of Mr Baldwin. They passed directly over his chest. The supposition is that he either stumbled and fell, or was suddenly taken with a fit, which caused him to fall. He was so injured that he could give no account of the accident and lived only three-quarters of an hour. He was a strictly temperate and industrious, hard-working man who enjoyed the respect of the community to a large extent. He leaves a wife and nine children to mourn the death of a loving husband and father."
(Titusville Morning Herald, Oct 9, 1880, p.4)
(Titusville Morning Herald, Oct 9, 1880, p.4)
"FATAL ACCIDENT - A Man Killed near Spartansburgh - Yesterday Mr Christopher Baldwin, a teamster, who lives at Spartansburgh, was engaged in hauling lumber to the village. He was about two miles and a half from home, plodding along in the slow way that a team necessarily moves when fully loaded. In company with him was another teamster with lumber. The first intimation of anything out of the usual course of things was the discovery by the last-mentioned that the wheels of the wagon were crushing the life out of Mr Baldwin. They passed directly over his chest. The supposition is that he either stumbled and fell, or was suddenly taken with a fit, which caused him to fall. He was so injured that he could give no account of the accident and lived only three-quarters of an hour. He was a strictly temperate and industrious, hard-working man who enjoyed the respect of the community to a large extent. He leaves a wife and nine children to mourn the death of a loving husband and father."
(Titusville Morning Herald, Oct 9, 1880, p.4)
(Titusville Morning Herald, Oct 9, 1880, p.4)
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