The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-09-24
ONE MAN DEAD;
ANOTHER HURT
Fatality at Young Bros Plant
To-day
RAYMOND LAG0R IS DEAD
Loren walbndge Taken to City Hospital
in Serious condition---B Block Of
Granite Tipped Over and
Crushed Them.


One man was killed ard another seri.
ously injured in an accident which oc-
CURED at Young Brothers polishing mill
at nine o'clock this morning. Raymond
I.agor was killed lifc being crushed out
OF his body almost instantly By a taree.
ton stone falling onto him, and Loren
Waibridge was caught by tho same stone
and injured 80 that he was taken to the
City hospital hi serious condition
The two young men were Jumpers at
the shed aud were at work removing two
| huge stones from polishing bed. They
had hitched the chains to the first stone.
and the travelling derrick had lifted it
out OF the bed and carried IL few feet
away, were il was let down to the
ground and left standing on end. The
stone was about eight inches thick, five
feet long and four feet high. The men
then hitched the chains onto another
stone, similar in shape out much larger,
and this stone WIS let down fatways
beside Of the first stone.
The unfortunate men then stepped IN
between the two stones and were stopped
over pulling out the big chain from under
the stone. when the stone which was
standing on edge behind them suddenly
fell over, crushing them fast against the
stone at their feet.
Arthur J. Cave was running the trav-
cling derrick on the track above them
and he saw the stone topple and called
quickly TO the boys, hut they had only
time to partially straiehfen up before
the stone caught them. They were about
three feet from each other and the stone
strucs Lagor across his back, crushing
his chest against the edge Of the other
stone. WalbridRe was caught across his
back, but blocks on the ground at his
feet held that end Of the stone from
falling clear, which was the only thing
that saved him from the same fate OF
his companion
As soon a. the stone fell other work
men in the shed were attracted by the
cries Of Mr.. Cave and Of the Young men
and they took the stone of the bodies Of
tho victims in few minutes hv throw
ing a chain around it and hitching II to
the derrick, which Immediately lifted
the stone Lagor was unconscious waen
lifted out, and expired in few min
utSes III ". ~ INeiU was NhiitQ anu
ordered Walbridge taken to the City hos
pital, and he was taken there in Hooker
q company's ambulance
The two young men had been em-
pioyed as Jumpers at this plant three
months. Lagor was about 25 years of
age and il a cousin Of Joseph Lagor,
who conducts barber shop on North
Main street and who took charge of the
body until the boys father can arrive
here from Keesville, y. Y. Lagor had
worked on the qlarries in
where he also has rela-
tires
On examination Of Drs. Reid and Chan-
dler at the hospital of Walbridge's in
juries, it was fohnd that his right thigh
was fractured in two places and there
were bruises all over the lower part Of
his body; but unless any internal injur
les develop, it is thought that ne will
recover.
Report late this afternoon from the
hospital was to the effect that Walhridge
was resting comfortably, with the indi.
cations good for recovery. He is 22
years Of age and Is the son Of Mrs. En-
gene Whiteomb of Montpelier He Is
married but has not been living with
his wife recently. His home is over the
Of j. J. Williams in Mont
1elier. Before coming to Barre to work
le had been employed as a lrlmper In
FaTioiis stonesheds in Montpelier.