Andrew Buchanan obituary, The Reporter and Tribune, Washington, Pennsylvania, 14 January 1863. Article located and shared to Candice Buchanan by researcher Diane Moore-Hoyt, 15 May 2017. Transcribed by Candice Buchanan.
"A Dreadful and Fatal Accident - On Tuesday January 6th, while Mr. Andrew Buchanan, of Franklin Tp., was working with a threshing machine, he met his death under the following circumstances: Some wheat having wasted out of the box into which it was carried by the [word illegible] Mr. B stooped down to gather it up, when his clothes caught in the tumbling shaft [word illegible] junction with the fly wheel. The machine being in full motion, and his clothes being [word illegible], he was whirled with fearful velocity toward the shaft, literally bruising the life out of him before he could be rescued. After he was extricated from the machine he survived a short time, but died before medical aid could be procured.
Mr. Buchanan was a man well advanced in years, is well known through the county, and leaves a large family to mourn his death."
"A Dreadful and Fatal Accident - On Tuesday January 6th, while Mr. Andrew Buchanan, of Franklin Tp., was working with a threshing machine, he met his death under the following circumstances: Some wheat having wasted out of the box into which it was carried by the [word illegible] Mr. B stooped down to gather it up, when his clothes caught in the tumbling shaft [word illegible] junction with the fly wheel. The machine being in full motion, and his clothes being [word illegible], he was whirled with fearful velocity toward the shaft, literally bruising the life out of him before he could be rescued. After he was extricated from the machine he survived a short time, but died before medical aid could be procured.
Mr. Buchanan was a man well advanced in years, is well known through the county, and leaves a large family to mourn his death."
Andrew Buchanan obituary, The Reporter and Tribune, Washington, Pennsylvania, 14 January 1863. Article located and shared to Candice Buchanan by researcher Diane Moore-Hoyt, 15 May 2017. Transcribed by Candice Buchanan.
"A Dreadful and Fatal Accident - On Tuesday January 6th, while Mr. Andrew Buchanan, of Franklin Tp., was working with a threshing machine, he met his death under the following circumstances: Some wheat having wasted out of the box into which it was carried by the [word illegible] Mr. B stooped down to gather it up, when his clothes caught in the tumbling shaft [word illegible] junction with the fly wheel. The machine being in full motion, and his clothes being [word illegible], he was whirled with fearful velocity toward the shaft, literally bruising the life out of him before he could be rescued. After he was extricated from the machine he survived a short time, but died before medical aid could be procured.
Mr. Buchanan was a man well advanced in years, is well known through the county, and leaves a large family to mourn his death."
"A Dreadful and Fatal Accident - On Tuesday January 6th, while Mr. Andrew Buchanan, of Franklin Tp., was working with a threshing machine, he met his death under the following circumstances: Some wheat having wasted out of the box into which it was carried by the [word illegible] Mr. B stooped down to gather it up, when his clothes caught in the tumbling shaft [word illegible] junction with the fly wheel. The machine being in full motion, and his clothes being [word illegible], he was whirled with fearful velocity toward the shaft, literally bruising the life out of him before he could be rescued. After he was extricated from the machine he survived a short time, but died before medical aid could be procured.
Mr. Buchanan was a man well advanced in years, is well known through the county, and leaves a large family to mourn his death."
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