Obit for Ed GLASSEL (d.1922), Mower Co., MN

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This is obit-news story which appeared in the Austin Daily Herald, 
July 6, 1922, on the front page.

"ACCIDENT FATAL TO WORKMAN
Ed. Glassel Dies of Injuries Received at Packing Plant.
WATCH  RECORDS  TIME
Workman Believed To Have Caught Head in Belt; Alone When Accident Occurred

   "Lying near a broken belt running from a motor to a drying machine, 
the body of Ed Glassel, sixty-seven years old, was found at 12:30 
o'clock this morning by a fellow workman in the drying room of the 
fertilizer department at the packing plant. Several bruises were 
inflicted about the dead man's head, neck and left shoulder and a deep 
wound made in the skull. Coroner Pierson was immediately notified and 
pronounced the death accidental.

    "A watch carried by Mr. Glassel stopped at 11:35 o'clock, the time 
the accident is believed to have occurred. Only a few workman are on 
duty in the department at night and no shouts were heard from Mr. 
Glassel by anyone in the building, according to information available 
at the office of the superintendent, where it was said the details 
obtainable made a determination of the circumstances causing the 
accident impossible.

    "The body was taken to the Mayer & Ousley undertaking rooms at 2 
o'clock this morning and the victim's family notified of the tragedy. 
His death is mourned by his wife, a daughter, Frances, a son, Joe, and 
one brother, John, of Mitchell, Ia.

    "Mr. Glassel was sixty-seven years old on April 26 and has been 
employed at the Hormel packing plant for more than fifteen years. He 
was born near Ashland, Wis., and came to Austin about twenty-five years 
ago, working for several years on the Milwaukee railroad here.

    "Funeral services will be held at 2:30 o'clock Saturday from the 
home, 310 South River street, with Rev. R. C. Swisher of the 
Congregational church officiating."

(Note -  I am a Glassel researcher and I know that the place of birth 
is not correct.)