Crawfordsville Weekly Journal 17 June 1893 p3 -- William G. Hutchings was killed Monday night by an accident which occurred near the farm of Capt. E. P. McClaskey, on the darlington road. Hutchings resided on the farm of his mother, Mrs. Martha Hutchings, six miles east of this city. He was a married man and an industrious farmer. Monday afternoon he took a load of wheat to Darlington and having disposed of it spent the balance of the day there, leaving for home about half past 8 at night. About 11 o'clock Wallace Casher was driving along the road near Capt. McClaskey's farm and while crossing a small, unguarded bridge over a boggy little stream, discovered evidence of an accident having occurred there. Examination showed a wagon upside down in the mud and sluggish water below the bridge. Casher hurried to the nearest house and returned with a lantern and assistance. The wagon was raised and under it was found the dead body of Will Hutchings, half buried in the mud. The remains were taken back to Darlington and prepared for burial while the word of the sad accident was carried to his family. A cut on the forehead seemed to prove that his head had struck one of the logs of the bride as the wagon went over, stunning him and preventing him from helping himself when the wagon fell over on him. He must have miserable smothered to death in the mud. Coroner Bronaugh held his inquest Tuesday and found that the deceased came to his death substantially as narrated above. The accident was a very lamentable one and the family has the sympatny of all in its bereavement.