The Redwood gazette., 1930-09-03
Christ Jensen Dies
From Fall Off Stack
Breaks Neck i'm Fall to Ground
Off Stack of Flax Last
Thursday

Christ Jensen, residing five miles
west of Morgan was fatally injured
Thursday when he fell off a grain
stack and fractured two vertebrae in
his back. He was rushed to hospi-
tai in Minneapolis but he passed
away Friday noon, twenty-four hours
after the lamentable accident.
The funeral was held Tuesday af-
ternoon. Brief services at the home
were followed by services at the Gil
fillan Lutheran church, of which the
deceased was a member. Interment
was made in the church cemetery.
Th funeral was attended by large
gathering of relatives. and friends.
Rev. Sherman Rondo, the pastor, had
charge of the rites.
The accident was a rather peculiar
one. Mr.. Jensen was stacking flax,
with the assistance of two sons, Leo
and Lloyd. About Thursday noon
while Leo was in the field getting a
load, Lloyd was pitching at the stack
while Mr.. Jensen was doing the
stacking. AS near as can be learned
one of the outside bundles slipped off
and Mr.. Jensen lost his balance and
fell off the stack backwards. The
stack was only about as high as a
pitchfork.
The seventh cervical vertebra and
the first dorsal vertebra were fractur-
ed in the fall. Mr.. Jensen lay on the
ground helpless as he was rendered
totally paralyzed from the injury
down. He was given medical assist
ance as quickly as possible but when
the gravity of the injury was ascer-
tanned plans were made to immediate
ly move the injured man to hospi
tai at Minneapolis where he could
have the services of specialists.
The grief stricken family have the
heartfelt sympathy of the people of
the community in their great grief.
The sudden death came as a great
shock to the family relatives and
friends.
Mr.. Jensen, who was a kind heart
ed husband and father, leaves to
mourn his loss, his wife and five chill
dren, namely Raymond, Mrs. Otto
Schiller, Leo, Lloyd and Hazel. There
were also four brothers and two sis
ters, Carl, Alfred, Fred, Jim, Mrs. A.
F. Lamp, Evan and Mrs. Dave Den
nistoun, Redwood Falls. One broth
er, Peter and a sister, Mrs. Andrew
Hansen, have passed on.
= ,Jens Christian Jensen was "a son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Hans Jensen, pioneer
settlers of Brookville township, both
of whom passed away a few years
ago. He was born in Denmark, Dec.
20, 1875, making him 81 years, z
months and % days old at the time of
his death.
In 1880, when the subject of this
sketch, was only five years old, the
family immigrated to this country
and settled in Brookville township,
near Morgan. Morgan had been
started only few years, and it was
only two or three years before that
the railroad was extended from
Sleepy Eye to- Redwood Falls. 1t is
easy to understand that the Brook
vile community was little more than
unbroken prairie when the Jensen
family set foot on that soil. From his
early boyhood MIR. Jensen saw this
community, where he lived all this,
time since five years old, settled and
developed beyond the dreams and ex-
pectations of the early settlers.
In March, 1910, Mr.. Jensen was
united in marriage with Annie Jen-
sen, daughter of the late Mr.. and
Mrs. Jorgen Jensen.
He had wide acquaintance in the
Morgan and Clements communities
Morgan Messenger.