Gogebic County MI Archives News.....Hunting Accidents November 21, 1914
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Wakefield Advocate November 21, 1914
SATURDAY, NOV. 21, 1914
HUNTING ACCIDENTS
Although the hunting season is half over the list of accidents ?.  Here are a 
few of them:
Andrew Christoferson, aged 65, ? missing, killed by a shotgun ? out of his 
hands and being accidentally discharged.  The full ? entered his body and he 
died within a few hours.

August Nordgrene, 35, killed by accidental discharge from a rifle.  He was 
cleaning same.  A widow and three children survive.

?nton Karez, of Trenary, killed by an accidental discharge of 32-caliber rifle 
in the hands of Jacob ?bian.  The bullet entered his brain.

Victor ?manen, 35, shot in the head and instantly killed while getting into a 
boat.  He dragged a loaded gun behind him and when the trigger caught on one 
of the seats it was discharged.

John Kilpela, of Calumet, 17 [or 47], shot in the abdomen while resting with 
his gun.  The wound proved fatal.

Tony Obrenvich, 23, of Red ?acket, dropped a loaded gun from a wagon and in 
reaching for it, discharged the weapon and was struck in the stomach with 
fatal results.

John Fors, 17 [or 47], of Crystal Falls, shot while resting on the barrel of a 
gun.  One arm was amputated but he died from the result of the wound.

James Watkins, 43 [or 13] of Bellaire, Schoolcraft county, was killed by the 
severing of the jugular vein when his gun was accidentally discharged while 
climbing into a wagon.

James Rolle, 27, of Negaunee, on returning from a hunting trip fell down a 
flight of stairs and sustained a fractured skull, which proved fatal.

Edward Fontaine, 13, of Marquette, shot by a companion.  One eye destroyed and 
probably the other.  Condition critical.

Beverly J. Bugg, 37, of Grand Marais, wounded by the discharge of gun he 
thought was unloaded.  One foot amputated; the other foot amputated years ago, 
also the result of an accident.

Edward Barrow, 23, of Sidnaw, arm partly blown off by the discharge of a gun 
carried by a companion.

Michael Bassalo, 31, of Negaunee, wounded in the thigh when he fell with a 
cocked gun.

DeWitt Pangborn, of Grand Rapids, shot in arm when pulling a gun in a wagon by 
the muzzle.

John Ellola, of Ironwood, mistaken for a bear by Chas. Leikkonen, shot and 
seriously wounded.

Albert Alvord, 15 [or 45], of Munising, arm shattered by accidental discharge 
of shotgun.

Albin Makki, of Negaunee, gunshot wound in arm when his gun caught in the 
brush and was discharged.  Amputation threatened.

Albert Rossiter, a metropolitan boy, had part of his hand blown off when his 
gun slipped out of his hands and was discharged.

Albert Blewett, of Painesdale, shot in leg.

Albert Ross, of Ontonagon, seriously wounded by charge of shot from 
companion's gun.

John Falkie, of Ironwood, mistaken for a deer and shot in the arm by an 
unknown hunter.

Joseph Jonavin, of Stephenson, was the victim of a set gun.  He was alone and 
was helpless in the woods for two days.

George Milchuck, of Munising, wounded in the hip by a bullet fired by a 
companion while loading a gun.

Chas. Burble, of Crystal Falls, shot in the back by an unknown hunter, not 
serious.

An unknown man, supposed to reside in Detroit, was shot and seriously wounded 
near Grand Marais by a member of the hunting party.

Clyde Hazen, 43 [or 13], of Brimley, arm amputated as the result of the 
accidental discharge of a gun  He was standing on a log when he slipped and 
discharged the gun.

August Ward, of Cedarville, near the Soo, was killed while leaning over his 
gun.  The charge entered his breast.

Leo Dishaw, of Ewen, was shot while hunting near Tula.  The ball struck him in 
the right side and tore a gash about three inches long just outside the ribs.  
The shot was fired by an unknown hunter.

John LaValley, of Ford River, had his left hand blown off when the barrel of 
the gun with which he was hunting burst.

A man by the name of Kanuteson, 50, of Charlevoix county, shot himself with a 
shot gun with fatal results.

George Stevens of Groveland, near Iron River, was shot by the accidental 
discharge of his brother's gun and lay in the woods a day and a night while 
the brother went for help.  He is in a critical condition from loss of blood 
and exposure.

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