Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Paul, William 1888
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Portland Observer, 19 Sep 1888, page 1

Last Wednesday afternoon as the steam thresher of Vet Pryer was going to Chas 
Culver’s to thresh oats and when near Bergen’s stave factory, the rear wheel on 
the right hand side of the engine broke through a small bridge over a sluice-
way, throwing Wm. Paul, who was sitting on the engine near the engineer, to the 
ground, and it is supposed that the breaking planks caught him and threw him 
under the forward wheel of the water tank which passed over his breast, 
injuring him internally to such an extent that he lived but about twenty 
minutes.

Mr. Paul was a hard working man of about 55 years, and leaves a wife and two 
daughters who reside at Collins.

Justice Porter held an inquest on the body of the dead man and empaneled the 
following jury: Josiah Dilley, Geo. Dinsmore, N.T. Sandborn, Orrin Howe, Alfred 
Allen, Jason Woodbury, who after taking evidence in the matter, rendered a 
verdict of accidental death, but blaming no one for the accident.

In going over the bridge the separator had preceded the engine, and when the 
accident occurred Mr. Fishell, the engineer stopped the engine not ten feet 
from the unfortunate man, and was obliged to back the engine in order that the 
body might be released.

Mr. Paul was a hard-working, honest man, and his death falls heavily upon his 
family, who had only his hands for their support, and they have the sympathy of 
all in their affliction.


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