Anderson, George (Died 1891)

ANDERSON

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Date: 1/26/2008 at 11:47:41

LeMars Sentinel
September 25, 1891

DRAGGED TO DEATH

George Anderson of Hinton Killed By A Runaway Pony. A Shocking Sight.

A shocking accident occurred at Hinton Wednesday in which a son of C. J.
Anderson was dragged to a dreadful death by a pony. It appears that George,
who is aged sixteen years, went either to a store or a neighbors for a ball
of twine to be used in typing the tops of shocks of corn together. His hat
was afterward found about a mile or more east of Hinton, show that he had
been dragged that far. He had put the end of the halter through the ball and
fastened it. When he was found the ball with the halter was found to have
made a loop or slip noose over his leg just above the knee and in this
manner the boy was dragged over a mile. The pony came into Hinton and ran to
the elevator. The dump was open in the drive way and he cleared it at one
bound. The boy was horribly bruised his skull being crushed in, in two or
three places, his body being fairly black with bruises and face badly
disfigured.

Of course not a particle of life was left in the body. It is supposed that
after tying the twine to the halter he threw the halter over the horse and
mounted, the brought the ball back over his leg, making the noose. It is not
know how the horse first took fright or how the boy was thrown. It is a very
shocking death to the parents and friends of the youth.

Mr. I. N. Goin, of this city, who got off the train at Hinton just as the
pony was caught, near noon, states that the sight was indeed a shocking one.