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Samuel Cox; Saw-Mill Accident

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Posted By: Marilyn Norris Holmes (email)
Date: 5/1/2009 at 07:41:02

From: History of Poweshiek Co. Iowa (1880)
Deep River Township.
Page 603

INCIDENTS AND EXPERIENCES

In the fall of 1856 the steam boiler in the saw-mill of Mr. Ephraim Cox burst, instantly killing Samuel Cox, aged twenty-six. He was blown through the roof of the mill, and his clothing entirely stripped off. This occurred one-half mile east of Dresden.


 

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