Unknown County MT Archives News.....Died With None To Help September 3, 1904 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mt/mtfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sheron Faynor nitwittwin@hotmail.com April 9, 2008, 7:26 am Morning Oregonian September 3, 1904 Fate of Woodhauler,Pinned Under Load of Logs Boulder,Mont.,Sept 2- Dragged to death more than 100 yards and crushed beneath the load of logs he was attempting to chain more securely,William Ramsey,an aged woodhauler of Stringtown,met a horrible fate in the lonely hills 12 miles north of Wlkerville. Ramsey was missed by neighbors nearly two weeks ago,but,as he was in the habit of making long stays in Butte,nothing was thought of his absence until his horses with parts of their harness attached were found roaming about the woods.Search was at once instituted,and the body was found where Ramsey ws known to have been logging in the hills. When discovered the remains were in an advanced stage of decompistion,so much so that they were removed with great difficulty. Ramsey had evidently been trying to tighten the chain which bound his loa of logs fell across his body. in the old man's death throes,or in his efforts to escape from the weight which pinned him to the ground,he had kicked and dug away the ground several feet around the log.The scene tells a silent story of a terribel death in the fastness of the lonely woods near Lowlands,where no sound answered his cries save the cho of his own voice.Ramsey was a German,60 years of age,and had no relatives in this country. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mt/unknown/newspapers/diedwith6gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mtfiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb