Kauai County HI Archives Obituaries.....Yuen, Bang April 29, 1919
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The Garden Island, Lihue, Kauai, Tue., 4-29-1919
YUEN, BANG
BURNED TO DEATH.  A very unusual and fatal accident took place last week at Kealia 
when Bang Yuen, a Chinese cane cutter was burned to death in a cane fire that got 
out of control in one of the fields of the Makee Sugar Company. Bang Yuen was one 
of the cutters in the cane harvesting gang and was helping cut a fire line to head 
off the blaze that had gotten away from the burners. The cutters were cutting a 
line from both sides, and when the line was completed, the two gangs that were 
cutting the lines from opposite directions met just in time to rush out before the 
sweeping flames. Yuen fell behind his companions and was overtaken by the fire. 
His body was afterwards recovered in a very burned and mutilated condition, having 
been nearly consumed by the flames. 


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posted by rms [Exact date of death not stated in obituary]

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