Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1858 — Sad Event—Gored to Drath by a Bull. [ARTICLE]

Sad Event —Gored to Drath by a Bull.

The Rev. Samuel C. Parker, of Hinckley. .Medina county, met with a terrible death Sunday morning, the 10th iust. He was seen to gn into a field in which he kept a bull, with a pitchfork in his hand, for the ! purpose, as is supposed-, of driving he animal out. About an hour after a person .called at bis house to invite h ; m to preach a : funeral sermon, and was directed by the t'amily to the field where they supposed Mr. I Parlier to'be. On looking for hiih he was found dead, the body tossed over the fence i several rods from where the pitchfork was I lying. The horns and head of j.he hull : were bloody, and the flood and marks on it he groundl/indicated that the unfortunate j man was 'gored- and pitched along l>v tlie i vicious animal from tin? plac.e .where the | pitchfork was dropped to the feihce, and ! then tossed completely over .it — (dl-velavJ, '\ Leader.