A Sad Accident-1877

WILSON

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 9/4/2009 at 09:15:06

Jackson Sentinel, Maquoketa, Iowa, August 23, 1877.

Bellevue, Iowa-

A sad accident resulting in the death of Captain William Wilson, a well known and highly esteemed citizen of Bellevue, happened last Sunday morning. William Wilson, who was a machinist, went out some four miles in the country to make some repairs on a threshing machine, and while doing so was caught by the revolving cylinder, and his arm torn off to the shoulder. He died Monday morning.