George Hull

HULL

Posted By: John Evan Davis (email)
Date: 2/15/2015 at 22:09:31

Ottumwa tri-weekly courier, November 07, 1912
FORMER I0WAN KILLED IN WEST
BROTHER OF J. E. AND DR. HULL VICTIM OF FATAL ACCIDENT IN DENVER.
Pinned beneath a casting machine weighing 4,200 pounds, which fell upon him while he was assisting workmen assigned to load it on a flat car, Geo. Hull, aged 65, a brother of J. E. Hull and Dr. J. A. Hull of Ottumwa, who was employed as a shipping clerk for the Denver Engineering Works, directed the efforts of the men to liberate him from her perilous position late Thursday afternoon in Denver. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Hull and Dr. J. A. Hull left Friday afternoon for Denver. The wonderful nerve of the injured man is evident when it is known that every bone of his body was crushed, but his head was uninjured and he retained consciousness for fifteen minutes. He was removed to Mercy hospital, where he died an hour later. The accident occurred late Thursday afternoon while the casting was being loaded on a car for shipment. Mr. Hull stepped beneath it to release a corner that had been caught against the car, when the rope cable by which it had been suspended, parted. The men at work with him turned away as the casting fell, believing that he was instantly killed, and when finding that he was not killed, they replaced the cable with another, which took fifteen minutes to adjust, during which time the injured man suffered untold agony until the weight was removed from his body. He had been in the employ of the company for twenty-five years and is survived by his widow and three married children. He was a native of Wapello County and resided for years near Blakesburg before going west.