Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Swank, Frederick W. 1914 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/id/idfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Cheryl Hanson ihansonb@fmtc.com February 1, 2006, 2:48 pm Fruitland Banner 10-30-1914 Fruitland Banner Fruitland, Idaho Friday, October 30, 1914 FRUITLAND MAN IS ACCIDENTALLY SHOT Last Sunday morning about 11:30 F. W. Swank, the blacksmith at this place, was accidentally shot and died at the Holy Rosary hospital, Ontario, Monday morning at 7:30. The accident occurred about three miles east of New Plymouth, where he had gone the night before in company with Dewey Wheaton to shoot ducks. On starting home they drove through a small ditch, when it is supposed the gun jolted out striking the hammer on the edge of the buggy, causing the discharge. The entire load took effect back of the heart making a ghastly wound and pierced the lower part of the lung. The wound, while dangerous was not necessarily fatal, but the wounded man was unable to withstand the shock. Drs. Wright and Drysdale accompanied him to the hospital at Ontario and rendered every aid possible. Deceased was 32 years old and leaves a wife and two small children, two brothers, one at Payette and one at Notus and his mother, who lives in the Willamette Valley, where the remains were sent Wednesday for interment. The bereaved ones have the sympathy of the entire community in their great sorrow. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/id/payette/obits/s/swank1676nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/idfiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb