Lyngaas, Julius 1866 - 1896

LYNGOES, LINGAAS, LYNGAAS

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 5/19/2024 at 21:00:45

Source: Decorah Republican Aug. 20, 1896 P 3 C 3

Mangled in a Threshing Machine.
Postville, Aug. 17.—Walter Lyngoes, while cleaning around a threshing machine last evening, at Myron, a village a few miles north of Postville, stepped feet foremost into the cyclinder. He lived two hours after the thresher had been taken apart and his body removed.

Source: Decorah Republican Aug. 20, 1896 P 8 C 2

A young single man by the name of Lingaas met an untimely death over about four miles east of Frankville while threshing grain last Friday, Aug. 14th. He was helping clean up the grain as they were finishing, and was up on the separator picking up the loose straw and putting it in the cylinder, when in stepping over the cylinder he made a misstep and went in with the grain. As the machine was going at a fast rate he was instantly almost torn to pieces. The engineer shut off the power as soon as possible but the work was done and no help for it. The right leg was wound around the cylinder, the chords being drawn from the entire body and wound in such a manner that it took about a half hour to get him out of the machine. The doctor was sent for but death came before he arrived. Lingaas was conscious to the last and called for a drink of water after extricated. This is one of the most horrible of deaths and should be a warning to others not to be too careless around such dangerous places.

Transcriber’s Note: Find a Grave shows Julius Lyngaas who was born Feb 13, 1866 and died Aug. 14, 1896. He is buried in the Glenwood Lutheran Cemetery.

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