Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1914 — Killed in Gravel Pit. [ARTICLE]

Killed in Gravel Pit.

Walter Ogden, -30 years old, laborer, employed by the Lake Cicott Sand and Gravel Company, was crushed to death about 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon when tons of earth gave way, burying him beneath seven feet of sand and gravel in the Biassingham gravel pit near Lake Cicott, in which he was working. Ogden’s home was in Portland, Mich., and he came to Lake Cicott 5 weeks ago when he went to worlt for the gravel company. He. made his home with Sherman Spencer.— Saturday’s Monticello Journal.