Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1909 — Purdue Professor Is Victim of Hit by Thrown Hammer. [ARTICLE]

Purdue Professor Is Victim of Hit by Thrown Hammer.

Prof. Benjamin M. Hoak, of Purdue university, died Wednesday morning at Home hospital in Lafayette as the result of injuries sustained last Saturday when the state high school track team was holding its contest at Purdue. Prof. Hoak was watching the foot racing when Guy Conway, a high school boy of Vanßtir*»n, was throwing the hammer. The throw did not go straight and Prof. Hoak was struck with the heavy hammer on the right side of the abdomen and knocked down. He was not thought at first to have been seriously injured, but after being removed to the Home hospital he became much worse. Monday evening his condition first became critical and the most energetic efforts of the doctors failed to save himHe was 46 years of agfewud had been a professor at Purdue since 1893, and for the past six years the professor of materia medica in the school of pharmacy.