Albert Berg, 1890-1908

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Posted By: Emmet County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 1/23/2009 at 10:57:47

A HORRIBLE ACCIDENT

ANDREW [SIC] BERG OF GRUVER DRAGGED TO DEATH UNDER BINDER

DIES FROM INJURIES

Caught under Ball Wheel And Badly Mutilated--Taken to City Hospital.

Andrew [sic] Albert Berge [sic] Berg, of near Gruver met with a frightful and fatal accident Monday night [Aug. 3, 1908] while unhitching a team from a self-binder. He had been driving a team on the binder when the storm came up about five o'clock, when he started to unhitch the team and go to the barn. He had unhooked all but one tug when he went ahead of the team to take down the next yoke. While there the team became frightened and started to run and in doing so knocked the young man down and ran over him. He was caught under the binder and dragged several rods before the team was stopped. When taken out he was unconscious but still alive. A. D. Rose happened to be there at the time with a buggy and he took the young man to the hospital at Estherville as soon as possible but he died soon after reaching there. The flesh from one leg was badly torn but aside from that the body was not badly mutilated. It is supposed that he sustained internal injuries.

The accident is a most distressing one and especially so from the fact that the young man is the sole support of a widowed mother. He was only nineteen [sic] years of age, a hard working lad and well thought of by his neighbors.

The remains were brought to Gruver on the train Tuesday morning. The members of the family who survive are his mother, Mrs. Anna Berg, and one brother, Selmer. The father died in Norway in 1901 where he had gone for his health.

Albert Berg was born Nov. 17th 1890 and was nearly eighteen years old at the time of his death. He was a native of Emmet County and an industrious young man.

Funeral services will be held today at the M. E. Church in Gruver, conducted by Rev. S. S. Strand of Wallingford and B. S. Greene of Dolliver and interment in the Norwegian [Swan Lake] cemetery east of Gruver.

Contributed by: Ruth Hackett. Source: Vindicator and Republican, Estherville, Emmet County, Iowa; August 5, 1908