Published in the Rochester(IN) Sentinel, Friday, May 5, 1893
From the Kewanna Herald: An accident of a most sad and horrible nature occurred here Friday morning, when a team belonging to Ed. McLOCHLIN, Jr., who resides about five miles south of here, and which was coming to town for the purpose of getting a load of tile, driven by his little son, Lawrence [McLOCHLIN], aged eleven years, took fright and ran away. The little fellow bravely clung to the lines until they had reached the town, but when opposite A. D. Toner & Brunk's elevator, he was violently thrown out of the wagon to the ground, and in some way caught by the lines and dragged until the team reached the railroad where the little fellow struck his head on the rail, the team breaking away. Upon picking him up life was found to be extinct, his scull and head being horribly mangled and crushed, death surely resulting instantly. The team continued on its mad course through the town and finally stopped without further damage. The boy was accompanied by his uncle, Will McLOCHLIN, who had charge of another team and was following close behind the runaway, but he was powerless to stay the hands of death, or to help him in any way. It was a most sickening and sad spectacle, and kind hands tenderly cared for the remains until the father was informed of the accident and arrived.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obits/Biogs – 1891-1895 by Wendell C. Tombaugh
From the Kewanna Herald: An accident of a most sad and horrible nature occurred here Friday morning, when a team belonging to Ed. McLOCHLIN, Jr., who resides about five miles south of here, and which was coming to town for the purpose of getting a load of tile, driven by his little son, Lawrence [McLOCHLIN], aged eleven years, took fright and ran away. The little fellow bravely clung to the lines until they had reached the town, but when opposite A. D. Toner & Brunk's elevator, he was violently thrown out of the wagon to the ground, and in some way caught by the lines and dragged until the team reached the railroad where the little fellow struck his head on the rail, the team breaking away. Upon picking him up life was found to be extinct, his scull and head being horribly mangled and crushed, death surely resulting instantly. The team continued on its mad course through the town and finally stopped without further damage. The boy was accompanied by his uncle, Will McLOCHLIN, who had charge of another team and was following close behind the runaway, but he was powerless to stay the hands of death, or to help him in any way. It was a most sickening and sad spectacle, and kind hands tenderly cared for the remains until the father was informed of the accident and arrived.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obits/Biogs – 1891-1895 by Wendell C. Tombaugh
Published in the Rochester(IN) Sentinel, Friday, May 5, 1893
From the Kewanna Herald: An accident of a most sad and horrible nature occurred here Friday morning, when a team belonging to Ed. McLOCHLIN, Jr., who resides about five miles south of here, and which was coming to town for the purpose of getting a load of tile, driven by his little son, Lawrence [McLOCHLIN], aged eleven years, took fright and ran away. The little fellow bravely clung to the lines until they had reached the town, but when opposite A. D. Toner & Brunk's elevator, he was violently thrown out of the wagon to the ground, and in some way caught by the lines and dragged until the team reached the railroad where the little fellow struck his head on the rail, the team breaking away. Upon picking him up life was found to be extinct, his scull and head being horribly mangled and crushed, death surely resulting instantly. The team continued on its mad course through the town and finally stopped without further damage. The boy was accompanied by his uncle, Will McLOCHLIN, who had charge of another team and was following close behind the runaway, but he was powerless to stay the hands of death, or to help him in any way. It was a most sickening and sad spectacle, and kind hands tenderly cared for the remains until the father was informed of the accident and arrived.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obits/Biogs – 1891-1895 by Wendell C. Tombaugh
From the Kewanna Herald: An accident of a most sad and horrible nature occurred here Friday morning, when a team belonging to Ed. McLOCHLIN, Jr., who resides about five miles south of here, and which was coming to town for the purpose of getting a load of tile, driven by his little son, Lawrence [McLOCHLIN], aged eleven years, took fright and ran away. The little fellow bravely clung to the lines until they had reached the town, but when opposite A. D. Toner & Brunk's elevator, he was violently thrown out of the wagon to the ground, and in some way caught by the lines and dragged until the team reached the railroad where the little fellow struck his head on the rail, the team breaking away. Upon picking him up life was found to be extinct, his scull and head being horribly mangled and crushed, death surely resulting instantly. The team continued on its mad course through the town and finally stopped without further damage. The boy was accompanied by his uncle, Will McLOCHLIN, who had charge of another team and was following close behind the runaway, but he was powerless to stay the hands of death, or to help him in any way. It was a most sickening and sad spectacle, and kind hands tenderly cared for the remains until the father was informed of the accident and arrived.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obits/Biogs – 1891-1895 by Wendell C. Tombaugh
Inscription
McLOCHLIN
Nancy A., wife of W.E., d. Mar 6, 1890, ae 33y-6m
L. A., Sep 8, 1885 - Apr 28, 1893
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