MARRIAGE:
Etta Elizabeth POULSEN (1895-1976)
married 25 October 1915
Kemmerer, Lincoln, Wyoming, USA
DEATH:
"Gene Eschler of Geneva is dead from injuries received while threshing wheat. The tumbling rod of the machine slipped out of place and he attempted to fix it without stopping the teams. In some manner the rod became fastened in his coat and threw him to the ground with great force and mangled his body before the horses could be stopped."
SOURCE:
Soda Springs Sun
Newspaper dated 18 November 1915, page 7
DEATH:
"Gene Eschler's death was the first accidental death in the valley. He was operating an old horse power threshing machine. It was a cold day and he was wearing a long overcoat. The horses went around in a circle and in the innermost circle was a big bow wheel which had cogs and by a series of cogs it run a tumbling rod over to the thresher which ran the thresher. The horses had to step over this tumbling rod so they had a block for the rod to run through so the horse could step over it.
Something went wrong and rather than stop the horses, Gene jumped down and started to kick it back with his foot. His old overcoat got caught in the cogs and just pulled him right under it. They tried to stop the horses, but they could not be stopped soon enough. It broke his body all up. He died the next day."
SOURCE:
Early Beginnings of Thomas Fork Valley, A History of Raymond and Geneva, Idaho, and Border, Wyoming;
Homestead Publishers and Distributors, P.O. Box 265, Hurricane, Utah 84737 (1988), page 70.
Etta Elizabeth POULSEN (1895-1976)
married 25 October 1915
Kemmerer, Lincoln, Wyoming, USA
DEATH:
"Gene Eschler of Geneva is dead from injuries received while threshing wheat. The tumbling rod of the machine slipped out of place and he attempted to fix it without stopping the teams. In some manner the rod became fastened in his coat and threw him to the ground with great force and mangled his body before the horses could be stopped."
SOURCE:
Soda Springs Sun
Newspaper dated 18 November 1915, page 7
DEATH:
"Gene Eschler's death was the first accidental death in the valley. He was operating an old horse power threshing machine. It was a cold day and he was wearing a long overcoat. The horses went around in a circle and in the innermost circle was a big bow wheel which had cogs and by a series of cogs it run a tumbling rod over to the thresher which ran the thresher. The horses had to step over this tumbling rod so they had a block for the rod to run through so the horse could step over it.
Something went wrong and rather than stop the horses, Gene jumped down and started to kick it back with his foot. His old overcoat got caught in the cogs and just pulled him right under it. They tried to stop the horses, but they could not be stopped soon enough. It broke his body all up. He died the next day."
SOURCE:
Early Beginnings of Thomas Fork Valley, A History of Raymond and Geneva, Idaho, and Border, Wyoming;
Homestead Publishers and Distributors, P.O. Box 265, Hurricane, Utah 84737 (1988), page 70.
MARRIAGE:
Etta Elizabeth POULSEN (1895-1976)
married 25 October 1915
Kemmerer, Lincoln, Wyoming, USA
DEATH:
"Gene Eschler of Geneva is dead from injuries received while threshing wheat. The tumbling rod of the machine slipped out of place and he attempted to fix it without stopping the teams. In some manner the rod became fastened in his coat and threw him to the ground with great force and mangled his body before the horses could be stopped."
SOURCE:
Soda Springs Sun
Newspaper dated 18 November 1915, page 7
DEATH:
"Gene Eschler's death was the first accidental death in the valley. He was operating an old horse power threshing machine. It was a cold day and he was wearing a long overcoat. The horses went around in a circle and in the innermost circle was a big bow wheel which had cogs and by a series of cogs it run a tumbling rod over to the thresher which ran the thresher. The horses had to step over this tumbling rod so they had a block for the rod to run through so the horse could step over it.
Something went wrong and rather than stop the horses, Gene jumped down and started to kick it back with his foot. His old overcoat got caught in the cogs and just pulled him right under it. They tried to stop the horses, but they could not be stopped soon enough. It broke his body all up. He died the next day."
SOURCE:
Early Beginnings of Thomas Fork Valley, A History of Raymond and Geneva, Idaho, and Border, Wyoming;
Homestead Publishers and Distributors, P.O. Box 265, Hurricane, Utah 84737 (1988), page 70.
Etta Elizabeth POULSEN (1895-1976)
married 25 October 1915
Kemmerer, Lincoln, Wyoming, USA
DEATH:
"Gene Eschler of Geneva is dead from injuries received while threshing wheat. The tumbling rod of the machine slipped out of place and he attempted to fix it without stopping the teams. In some manner the rod became fastened in his coat and threw him to the ground with great force and mangled his body before the horses could be stopped."
SOURCE:
Soda Springs Sun
Newspaper dated 18 November 1915, page 7
DEATH:
"Gene Eschler's death was the first accidental death in the valley. He was operating an old horse power threshing machine. It was a cold day and he was wearing a long overcoat. The horses went around in a circle and in the innermost circle was a big bow wheel which had cogs and by a series of cogs it run a tumbling rod over to the thresher which ran the thresher. The horses had to step over this tumbling rod so they had a block for the rod to run through so the horse could step over it.
Something went wrong and rather than stop the horses, Gene jumped down and started to kick it back with his foot. His old overcoat got caught in the cogs and just pulled him right under it. They tried to stop the horses, but they could not be stopped soon enough. It broke his body all up. He died the next day."
SOURCE:
Early Beginnings of Thomas Fork Valley, A History of Raymond and Geneva, Idaho, and Border, Wyoming;
Homestead Publishers and Distributors, P.O. Box 265, Hurricane, Utah 84737 (1988), page 70.
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