FRANK SPENCER DEATH, ERIE COUNTY, NEW YORK

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SOURCE: BUFFALO EVENING NEWS -VOL.XXXIV---NO.145 dated 27 September 1897 
FATALLY SCALDED 
Threshing Engine Went Through a Bridge at Sardinia, Injuring Frank Spencer So That He Died 
(Special to the Evening News) 

Frank Spencer, 25 years old, a thresher, was terribly scalded here shortly after noon yesterday
and died at his home about 7 o'clock last night. Spencer was the son of Charles Spencer, a
well-known farmer. The Spencers own a traction treshing machine and Charles was returning home
with it from a neighboring farm where he had been doing some threshing when the accident
occurred. The engine is a heavy machine and had to cross the Henshaw bridge in order to reach
the Spencer farm. Charles had charge of the machine and was standing on the rear platform. The
Henshaw bridge is a frail structure and the engine went through it. When the bridge gave away
the steam gauge of the threshing machine exploded, scalding Frank from head to foot. He was
taken to his home and attended by Drs. Jackson and Brooks, but died last evening. Spencer
leaves a wife and four small children.