Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1892 — Boy Preened Flat in a Bale of Cotton. [ARTICLE]

Boy Preened Flat in a Bale of Cotton.

Brenham, Tex., special Walter Gardner.a boy who worked at J. T. Lott’s gin. twenty miles east of here, was crushed to death in a bale of cotton, Nov. 23. The bands were busy packing cotton in the press preparatory to pressing a bale when Gardner was missed. Nothing was thought of his absence and they filled the packing box with the lint and the press closed down. When the sides were dropped to roll out the bale they found the remains of the boy mashed out fiat and baled up in the cotton. Gardner had probably fainted and fallen into the press box and been covered up without the other hands noticing him. '