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Norwich, NY 200 lb Ice Accident, Sept 1913

Posted October 27th, 2007 by Linda Horton

BOY HIT BY CAKE OF ICE HAS LOCKJAW

Norwich, Sept. 23.---Walter Tansey, aged 17 years, who was almost fatally injured while at work at the W. R. C. Home near his home at Oxford, just below here during the afternoon of July 10th, when he was struck on the head by a 200-pound cake of ice, is now seriously [ineligible] at his home with lock-jaw. His illness is a result of the accident in July, it is said.

Young Tansey was at work in the pit of the ice house of the W. R. C. Home on July 10th when a 200-pound cake of ice slipped out from above him and fell, striking him on the head and knocking him unconscious. It was thought at the time that the injury would prove fatal but it did not. His recovery from his present illness is not at all certain. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Tansey, well known residents of Oxford. His brother, Thomas Tansey, Jr., was killed by a New York Central train at Utica in August 1912.

Syracuse Herald, Syracuse, NY 23 Sept 1913
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Transcribed by Linda Horton. Thank you, Linda!

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