This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Rogers, Spencer, Anguish, Reets, Johnson, Henry Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kg.2ADI/1680 Message Board Post: Barry Adage, Barry, Pike Co. IL, Thursday, July 25, 1901: "Three Accidents on Saturday. Two in this County and the Third in Hancock. Jewell Rogers Killed Near Hull - Charles Spencer Badly Scalded Near Shaws - David Anguish Killed Near Adrian, Hancock County. Jewell Rogers a well known resident of Hull, was killed in a peculiar accident Saturday a short distance southwest of that town. From the particulars as obtained it appears that while Rogers was at work with a number of others threshing wheat on the farm of John Reets, the cyclone stacker became partly clogged with straw. Rogers undertook to loosen the straw with a pitchfork without stopping the machine. The tines of the fork were caught by a swiftly revolving wheel, the fork jerked out of Rogers' hands, and before he could get out of the way the handle struck him in the eye, crushing his skull. He was rendered unconscious and died a few minutes after the accident. __ Charles Spencer, about 25 years old, son of T.J. Spencer, met with a horrible accident on Saturday and is now at his home in a very critical condition. The accident occurred about one-quarter of a mile south of his father's place, near the Shaw school house. He was on the road with his traction engine and separator, and in crossing a sixteen foot bridge it gave way and the engine and separator fell about twelve feet. The bridge timbers did not break until the rear wheels of the engine were on the bridge and they went down first, the separator piling on top of the engine. Charles Spencer was on the engine and attempted to jump when the bridge gave way, and it appears that the falling separator struck him and threw him toward the engine. The steam guage was broken and the boiling water poured out on Charles Spencer badly scalding his body from the hips down. How he got out of the wreck cannot be stated, but he did get out and managed to reach his home. Doctors were at o! nce sent for, and Dr. Johnson, of this city, and Dr. Henry, of El Dara, arrived in a short time. They found the flesh on the lower part of his body fairly cooked, and in taking off his clothing a large portion of the skin came off with it. Everything possible was done to alleviate his suffering. On Sunday men went out to the scene of the wreck to get out the engine and separator, and they say they cannot even imagine how the injured man escaped with his life. __ David Anguish, one of the most prominent and widely known farmers of Hancock county, living near Adrian, met with a frightful death Saturday afternoon. He was on top of a straw stack when he lost his footing and slid down the side. A pitchfork, with the tines pointed upward, was standing alongside, and in his descent Anguish was caught and his body impaled thereon. Death was almost instantaneous. Anguish and a hird hand were stacking straw in his field when the catastrophe occurred. The man with him was on a wagon throwing the straw on the stack, and Anguish was spreading it. There was no hint of what was soon to occur. Suddenly, and for some unaccountable reason, he lost his footing and plunged down the side and fell squarely upon the fork, the tines penetrating his bowels and going clear through the body. As soon as the hired man realized what had occurred he rushed to the unfortunate man's assistance and withdrew the fork. He called loudly for help, and at the same time drove to the nearest physician for aid. Before medical assistance could be rendered, however, Anguish had passed away. The news of the fatality spread rapidly, and a large crowd collected on the scene. Anguish numbered his friends by the score, and it was difficult for them to realize that the man, whom some of them had seen only a few hours before in all the vigor of healthy and matured manhood, had so soon passed away, and in such a horrible manner. David Anguish was 61 years of age, and had been a resident of Hancock county for many years."