Obituaries: Luther J. Ferguson, 1926, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483

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From: May 20, 1926 Winn Parish Enterprise

L. J. Ferguson, 21, Injured At Well Near Packton, Dies

Caught in a rapidly moving chain at a test well of Humble Oil Refining Company
near Packton, Winn Parish, Saturday afternoon, Luther J. Ferguson, age 21,
received fatal injuries when his leg was almost torn from his body.

The Hixon ambulance of Alexandria was summoned to Packton and he was carried
to the Baptist Hospital in Alexandria, but died at 5 o'clock Saturday
afternoon.

It is said that the victim's leg was caught in a chain which drives the rotary
drill and he was badly mangled before the machinery could be stopped.

Physicians were summoned immediately and an ambulance rushed from Alexandria
to take the unfortunate man to the hospital, where he died soon after arriving
there.

The body was shipped to Booneville, Arkansas, former home of the unfortunate
man, for burial.