Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 134, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1909 — DETAILS OF THE DEATH OF PEASLEY W. CLARK. [ARTICLE]

DETAILS OF THE DEATH OF PEASLEY W. CLARK.

Fell 150 Feet WhHe Working on Bridge, Breaking Almost Every Bone In His Body. The following account of the manner in which Peasley Clark met his death is taken from last Monday’s Oklahoma City Times: P. W. Clark, a workman of Rensselaer, Ind., while employed in the construction work of the building* of a bridge across the Canadian river for the street car line west of Delmar Garden, met a frightful death after a fall of 150 feet at an awful velocity, Sunday morning at 7 o’clock, by the accidental slipping of a cable from the clevis to which it was attached. It was Clark’s duty, Sunday morning, to carry back and forth a cable, to which was attached a 2,250 pound weight, which was to serve as the pile-driver. Four mules were in the act of raising the weight for the first time by a cable swung over a pulley, and Clark was standing just behind the mules, when the negro driver lost control of the mples, and the sudden jerking caused the rope to slip from the clevis, throwing it, by the impetus of the 2,250 pounds of dead weight, against the lower extremities of Clark. The fatal clash tossed him over an embankment and, after a fearful fall of 150 feet, he struck a hard bank, breaking nearly every bone in his body. The light of life had gone out when the first of his fellow-workers reached him. The body was at once conveyed to Street & Draper’s undertaking parlors and relatives notified of the result of the accident. Two sisters of Clark, who are living in Cincinnati, and one in Rensselaer, were flashed intelligence of tile tragedy by telegram.. Several friends living in the city are taking of the incidentals. Clark boarded at the Fisher boarding house, at 422 West Washington avenue, since his arrival in the city, just before Thanksgiving day.