Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1904 — Killed By A Binder Pole. [ARTICLE]

Killed By A Binder Pole.

A Carpenter Township Man’s Strange I.and Fptpl Accident. . < ( *$ arsC:■"> tex 1 T. Meyers, a 'resident .Carpenter, township for many years, met his death by an accident laat Wednesday U forenoon, Feb. 10th, and in an unusual way. He has just put a load of hay on his Wrtgon, at his farm about two miles north and one mile west of Remington, to haul to that town. He was on the at the back end. and was bearing do«n the binder pole, while his assistant on the ground tied it tp the bottom of the rack. While in. this position the pole suddenly broke behind Mr. Meyers, and the short end he was resting on rebounded suddenly and threw him in the ait and off the wagon. Be struck head down on the frozen ground, and factored his skull. Be djed in about two hours, never having regained consciousness He was about 40 or 45 years'old, and leaves a wife, also a son and a daughter, both grown or nearly so His wife is a daughter of Morgan Dew y, a well known citizen He owned and occupied an 80 acre farm, and was a man well respected by his neighbors. His funeral was held at the Remington Christian church, at 2:30 p. m. today, and burial made in the Remington cemetery. The young man who was an the ground helping tie the binder pole, was named Jim Shew. His own father had been quite bad y hurt in the back, about a week before, by exactly the same kind of an accident, and as Mr. Meyers was springing the pole down, just before it broke, he remarked ‘ Jim, this is just the way your father was hurt.” those being the last words he ever spoke. A Man Killed at Reynolds. Reynolds, the first station on the old Monon, south of Monon, was the scene of a fatal accident, Thursday morning. Will Crumbaker, a farmer living about five of Keynolds, had been to the elevator and was driving away, across the Monon tracks, when he was struck by an extra engine, running about 25 miles an hour. He was thrown a long disstance, and almost instantly killed. Be was 30 or 35 years old, and leaves a wife and three children. He had not lived in that vicinity long. The horses had got clear of the track and were not hurt The engine that killed him was big 111, which was\making its first trial run, after being in the shops at Lafayette, being rebuilt after being wrecked in an accident at Hammond, where several men were killed. This same No. 11l is the hoodoo of the whole road, and has killed we know not how many men.