The Nome nugget., 1925-09-26
ALBERT PETERSON CRU SHE'D
 TO DEATH BY GRIZZI.EY 51s ON BANGOR DREDGE

A very sad and Geplorable acci- dent occurred week ago today, just after the Weekly Nugget had been delivered to it's subscribers, when the news was telephoned to i town that Per Albert Peterson was l killed by being crushed by the re- volying screen of the Bangor | Dredge Company Gredge operat- ing on Anvil creek. Dr. Rex Swartz made hurried trip to reach possible and got as far as Banner station when he met the car bring ing the body of the young man to Nome, hurried examination was made and life was found to be ex- tinct His remains were immed-
 lately taken to the undertaking was crushed in three places, the
 first just below the knees, the second below the hips and the third showed his chest crushed in, app arently cauGing instant death.
 Many stories and rumors were soon circulated as to how the acc
 ident happened which travelled
 from person to person and grew
 to magnitude until it was nigh impsssible for the pede1;s 70 unde.
 stand why Coroner's Inquest was
 not summoned to investigate into the death of tine young man. From the start until the present time of printing, the stories are gaining in
 momentum and contradiction foll- ows contradiction, the publisher of this little sheet is endeavoring to to give the public fair and inn partial story concerning the acct- dent and things leading up to the time of the young mans death, we refrain from publishing rumors un- til we can get in touch with the operators and employees who were working on the dredge, finally we arranged to have the operators and employees who were working on the dredge at the time of the acci- dent to come to town and be inter viewed by the Nugget Thursday ev- ening in our effort to get the sto.y complete and correct. after wait ing and going to this trouble Mir. Otto Olson and John Anderson came to the office Thursday night during a rain and wind storm to give us the correct dope on the acci- dent. Why MT. Kjelsburg and MT. Adams did not come we do not know after getting a story from MT. Anderson the dredgemaster, and when told by the publisher that rumors stated that MT. kjels- burg was on the inside of the screen and was turned and rolled out of the screen onto the con- veyor belt, both Mir. Olsen and MT. Anderson replied "it was not true". So here we are still endeavoring to get the straight of it before giving the dredgemaster's story. The volume of conflicting stories is what makes one wonder why there is so much to talk about.
 The Nugget doesn't aim to give any one the worst of it, all we are in- terested in is publishing the truth in such a manner that our read CTS will be able to understand it. We are not trying to shield the operators or any of the employees, as some people have already in their careless way stated. but we think these same persons will agree with us that the true facts are not always ascertained, howere, we are going to print the the story as giv- i en to us by John Anderson the | dredgemaster, made in the pre- sence of Otto Olsen, which is as follows
 Statement of John Anderson. dredgemaster on Bangor dredge where accident occurred: "At about 11:30 a. m. Saturday Sept. 18th, told M. L. Adams the chief en- gineer. and Per Albert Peterson the oiler, both being in the winch