DEATH OF JOHN AKEY. FULL PARTICULARS
A sad accident happened near Hull's forge in Cadyville, on Tuesday morning of last week- John Akey, one of Nichols & Hull's employees, was taking a load of ore (four tons) to the forge. In driving down the hill, Akey held the brake of the wagon and a man named Charley Hayes was driving. The brake suddenly broke, and Akey, who was holding the lever with both hands, was pitched to the ground falling directly between the wheels. Hayes could not stop the horses, and the back wheel of the wagon passed over Akey's left shoulder, breaking both his shoulder and neck. The driver stopped his horses as quick as he could and called to Akey, asking him if he was hurt. Akey got up and walked four or five steps; he tried to speak, and put his hand to his chest, saying, "Oh dear," and fell immediately. Albert Day ran to him and picked him up, but the man was dead. Mr. Hull sent a man as soon as possible for Palmer Akey, the dead man's brother, who carried the news of the accident to his brother's wife and tried to prepare her to receive the dead body of her husband, who but a short time before he had left his family to go to his daily work.
John Akey leaves a wife and two young children. His age was 25 years, 6 months and 14 days. He was buried at Cadyville on Thursday. The funeral sermon was preached at the church by Rev. DeLarme of West Plattsburgh. It has been truly said he was a young man whom his employers and everyone who knew him liked well, and his death is much to be regretted.
Plattsburgh Republican, Saturday March 29, 1884
A sad accident happened near Hull's forge in Cadyville, on Tuesday morning of last week- John Akey, one of Nichols & Hull's employees, was taking a load of ore (four tons) to the forge. In driving down the hill, Akey held the brake of the wagon and a man named Charley Hayes was driving. The brake suddenly broke, and Akey, who was holding the lever with both hands, was pitched to the ground falling directly between the wheels. Hayes could not stop the horses, and the back wheel of the wagon passed over Akey's left shoulder, breaking both his shoulder and neck. The driver stopped his horses as quick as he could and called to Akey, asking him if he was hurt. Akey got up and walked four or five steps; he tried to speak, and put his hand to his chest, saying, "Oh dear," and fell immediately. Albert Day ran to him and picked him up, but the man was dead. Mr. Hull sent a man as soon as possible for Palmer Akey, the dead man's brother, who carried the news of the accident to his brother's wife and tried to prepare her to receive the dead body of her husband, who but a short time before he had left his family to go to his daily work.
John Akey leaves a wife and two young children. His age was 25 years, 6 months and 14 days. He was buried at Cadyville on Thursday. The funeral sermon was preached at the church by Rev. DeLarme of West Plattsburgh. It has been truly said he was a young man whom his employers and everyone who knew him liked well, and his death is much to be regretted.
Plattsburgh Republican, Saturday March 29, 1884
DEATH OF JOHN AKEY. FULL PARTICULARS
A sad accident happened near Hull's forge in Cadyville, on Tuesday morning of last week- John Akey, one of Nichols & Hull's employees, was taking a load of ore (four tons) to the forge. In driving down the hill, Akey held the brake of the wagon and a man named Charley Hayes was driving. The brake suddenly broke, and Akey, who was holding the lever with both hands, was pitched to the ground falling directly between the wheels. Hayes could not stop the horses, and the back wheel of the wagon passed over Akey's left shoulder, breaking both his shoulder and neck. The driver stopped his horses as quick as he could and called to Akey, asking him if he was hurt. Akey got up and walked four or five steps; he tried to speak, and put his hand to his chest, saying, "Oh dear," and fell immediately. Albert Day ran to him and picked him up, but the man was dead. Mr. Hull sent a man as soon as possible for Palmer Akey, the dead man's brother, who carried the news of the accident to his brother's wife and tried to prepare her to receive the dead body of her husband, who but a short time before he had left his family to go to his daily work.
John Akey leaves a wife and two young children. His age was 25 years, 6 months and 14 days. He was buried at Cadyville on Thursday. The funeral sermon was preached at the church by Rev. DeLarme of West Plattsburgh. It has been truly said he was a young man whom his employers and everyone who knew him liked well, and his death is much to be regretted.
Plattsburgh Republican, Saturday March 29, 1884
A sad accident happened near Hull's forge in Cadyville, on Tuesday morning of last week- John Akey, one of Nichols & Hull's employees, was taking a load of ore (four tons) to the forge. In driving down the hill, Akey held the brake of the wagon and a man named Charley Hayes was driving. The brake suddenly broke, and Akey, who was holding the lever with both hands, was pitched to the ground falling directly between the wheels. Hayes could not stop the horses, and the back wheel of the wagon passed over Akey's left shoulder, breaking both his shoulder and neck. The driver stopped his horses as quick as he could and called to Akey, asking him if he was hurt. Akey got up and walked four or five steps; he tried to speak, and put his hand to his chest, saying, "Oh dear," and fell immediately. Albert Day ran to him and picked him up, but the man was dead. Mr. Hull sent a man as soon as possible for Palmer Akey, the dead man's brother, who carried the news of the accident to his brother's wife and tried to prepare her to receive the dead body of her husband, who but a short time before he had left his family to go to his daily work.
John Akey leaves a wife and two young children. His age was 25 years, 6 months and 14 days. He was buried at Cadyville on Thursday. The funeral sermon was preached at the church by Rev. DeLarme of West Plattsburgh. It has been truly said he was a young man whom his employers and everyone who knew him liked well, and his death is much to be regretted.
Plattsburgh Republican, Saturday March 29, 1884
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