Threshing Accident (1889)

BEAN, WOOD

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes (email)
Date: 4/2/2010 at 08:30:29

Grinnell Herald (Grinnell, Iowa) Oct. 25, 1889

CHESTER NEWS

While I.A. Bean was threshing for S.A. Wood last Tuesday, one of the pitchers lost hold of his pitch fork and it went into the cylinder. There was some lively hustling about that time. The feeder and the band cutter got out of the way lively. The engineer reversed the engine, but the fork was ground up into toothpicks, and the cylinder was minus a lot of teeth.