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Accidental Deaths
Dennison Sargent, from Woodstock, in the employ of William Cardell, went into the mill where employed, one morning, and down below to cut the ice from the waterwheel. Someone raised the gate while he was there, and he was carried under the wheel, down the raceway, and under the ice below the mill. Mr. Cardell wondered where Sargent was during the day, and someone looked below the mill, and discovered the body in the ice.
Lewis Sargent, of East Warren, while shingling a building in Roxbury, fell from the roof to the ground, and injured his spine. He lingered several months, and then died.
Oliver Porter, living in the west part of the town, fell from the high beams in his barn on to a flax hatchel, and it injured him so he died in a few days. Ira Whitcomb, while in the employ of Christopher Moore, was kicked in the bowels by a colt he was leading to water, and died in a few days.
Aurin Ralph, while at work on the roof of his mill, in the south part of the town, fell to the rocks below the mill, and was instantly killed.
Dana Davis, while at work in Fayston chopping in the woods, felled a tree, and it lodged on another one, and while chopping that, he was caught when it fell, and one leg was smashed. Efforts were made in vain to staunch the blood, but he bled to death in about 20 hours.
Horace Poland, while at work in the woods, broke one leg, and was injured other ways. He lived several weeks and then died.
Stephen Sterling was sawing, clapboards in Lincoln, and went out into the mill yard to roll down some logs ; they lodged, and he went in front to start them, but before he could step out, was caught and crushed by the logs rolling on to him. He was a native of Warren, and was buried here.
Victor Mix went to Canaan to lumber, and while rafting logs on the pond, slipped between them and was drowned.
Mr. Pelton, living near the town line between Waitsfield and Warren, felt so bad when the high water cut through his meadow, that he committed suicide.
Otis Bucklin died very suddenly of heart disease. He ate his supper as usual, and went out in the dooryard, and was giving his hired man some orders about the work, and dropped dead.
Source: History of Washington County Vermont, Collated and Published by Abby Maria Hemenway, 1882.
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