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Bastrop, TX Fatal Wagon Accident, Aug 1904

Posted July 6th, 2008 by Linda Horton

DEATH UNDER WHEEL

Young Man Hauling Logs Has His Neck Broken.

Special to The News.

Bastrop, Tex., Aug. 26.---News reached here today that the dead body of Howell Byrum, a young man about 19 years old, who had been hauling logs for the McPhaul sawmill, eight miles east of Bastrop, was found lying under the wheels of his wagon near a large pine tree. He had just unloaded some logs and on returning the wagon came uncoupled, throwing him under the front wheels where he became entangled in a chain, dragging him a considerable distance. He was thrown against the tree, crushing his skull, his neck being broken by the wheel passing over it.

Dallas Morning News, Dallas, TX 27 Aug 1904
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Transcribed by Linda Horton. Thank you, Linda!

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