Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-07-30

the saw. Before he could regain his feet
or the bystanders could aid him he was
cut to pieces by the saw, his head, an arm,
and both legs being severed from his
body.
Two fatal accidents occurred on the
Brush farm, near Darien Centre. John
Schrader, the hired man, fell from load
Of hay with his pitchfork in his hand. In
some way he fell on the tines, which
passed entirely through his body. He
lived but a short time. Before the news
of this casualty reached the owner Of the
farm he was moving hay in his orchard
with moving machine. His 12-year-old
son was near by. Farmer Brush called
to him to come and hold up the low-hang-
Ing bough Of tree so he could drive un-
der it. The boy held it up, but stood so
close that as the machine passed him the
knives an that end of the cutter bar
struck him, cutting off both his feet at
the ankle. He died three hours later.
Ethel Rice, aged 9, was watching her
brother, John, run moving machine In
a field near the house. John stopped the
horses where she stood, dismounted from
the machine, and told Ethel to hand him
the wrench, which lay near. The little
girl got the wrench. and stepped up near
the machine, getting between the cutting
forks, and handed it to her brother. AS
he was reaching for 1t the horses started.
The quickly shifting knives caught the
child and cut off both her legs near the
knees.
At Bedford, Pa, on Thursday, Joseph
Bell, aged 73, was at work in his hay
6eld. Levi Shay was driving by and
stopped to talk to Farmer Bell, who walk
ed over to the fence.
might better let your hay rot down
In the field" said Shay. "It won't bring
30 ton the way this country Is being
| run"
"Three dollars tonw exclaimed Farm
er Bell, excitedly. "Why, that would
drive us to the poorhouse."
Certainly it would, and 1t will" de-
clared Shay.
Farmer Bell stood with disturbed
look on his face a moment, staggered for
ward and fell heavily TO the ground. Shay,
supposing Bell nad tainted from effects
of the heat, jumped from his wagon to
help him, but the farmer was dead.
Awful Work of Yellow Jackets.
George Ring, hired man on the farm
OF Wllnam SulJu, uls IuLutT-iu-idW w,
near Alton, was riding a moving machine
one day last week, when one Of the horses
| stepped in a yellow jackets nest In
stantly the irritable occupants of the nest
came out in swarm anud stung the
| horses, which, frenzied with the pain of
! the poisonous stingers, ran away. Ring
was thrown from his seat on the mower,
and although he fortunately fell out of the
| way Of the knives, he struck spot where
a patch Of elder brush had been cut, Mt
the edge of the field, leaving stiff, sharp
butts standing. When other men working
In the field hurried to his aid they found
| him impaled on the stubbles, one having
| been forced through the fleshy part of
his left thigh and one through his right
| shoulder. One ear was torn from bis
head, his lower jaw was broken, and his
body badly lacerated by the jagged elder
stubble. The full extent of Rings In
juries was not known nor could he be ex-
tricated from bis awful situation for ten
minutes after the arrival Of the men.
| A horde of yellow jackets which followed
| him as he was thrown from the machine,
were singing him hercely on every bit
Of flesh exposed, and had to be fought
away and killed before the men could
rescue the unfortunate Ring, who was
unconscious and uttering heart-rendins
| cries Of agony. His rescuers were terri