FARMER DIES FROM BINDER ACCIDENT:
Orville Read, aged 30 years, a farmer living several miles north- east of Piper City near the Sandridge church, was so severely injured in a binder runaway accident about nine o'clock last Thursday. forenoon, that he died from the results at the Gilman Community hospital at about two o´clock that same afternoon.
The young man was badly cut on both legs by the sickle on the machine, when the team ran away, while he was oiling the binder. Immediately after the accident he was placed in an automobile and rushed to the Gilman hospital. The wounds bled profusedly, and according to physicians attending him, death was due to the heavy loss of blood before receiving medical attention.
One leg received 1 cut about a foot in length, the flesh being sawed to the bone. and the other had a large hole in the muscle, it evidently having been puucturcd by one of the sickle guards.
According to the testimony of his brother, Elmo Read, at the coroner's inquest held here Thursday afternoon, Orville Read, Sam Blevens and himself, were cutting oats in the same field with three binders.
Blevens was in the lead, Orville Read was second and Elmo Read was in the rear, and the binders were about 80 rods apart. At about nine o'clock Sam Blevens and Orville Read stopped their machines at one corner of the field in order to oil them. When Blevens got through oiling his machine, he started out cutting again, and as he drove away he noticed that Orville was still busy
oiling.
A few moments later Elmo Read, who was coming from the rear, glanced up and saw Orville´s team circling with the binder. The horses ran about 75 or 100 feet and then broke lose from the machine. He ran to the scene and found his brother lying near the binder unconscious and with blood streaming from wounds on his legs. He stated that they placed Orville in an auto and rushed him with all speed to the hospital.
He said that lt was his belief that the team became frightened at something while Orville was oiling the machine, and that he was struck by the binder reel and thrown into the sickle when the horses started out.
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The Piper City Journal
SAD ACCIDENTAL DEATH
OrOille [sic, Orville] Read Killed Last Thursday When His Team Ran Away With A Binder At The Sam Blevins Place, In Pella
A distressing accident resulting in the death of Orville Read, one of the community´s finest young men, occurred last Thursday morning. Orville was cutting oats at the Sam Blevins place and dismounted from the binder to fix something about the sickle. The team became frightened and as they started to run Orville was caught by the sickle. One of his legs was almost severed and the other was terribly cut and lacerated by the guards of the machine. The accident happened about the middle of the forenoon and he was at once rushed to the Community Hospital in Gilman, but efforts to save his life were in vain and he passed away about two o´clock Thursday afternoon.
The body was taken to the home of his mother, Mrs. Melvina Read, and at two o´clock Saturday afternoon funeral services were conducted from the M.E. church in this city with the pastor, Rev. Ralph Dean in charge, assisted by Rev. W. D. Benjamin of Onarga and Rev. B.F. Eckley of Kankakee. Music was furnished by a sextet composed of Miss Susie Wilson, Mmes. C.F. White, E.B. Funk and I.B. Griffith, Messrs. Alex Watterson and A.G. Liebe, with Miss Eleanor Funk at the piano.
The funeral was under the auspices of Piper City Lodge No. 608, A.F. & A.M., and on account of the very inclement weather the Masonic ceremonies were held in the church, Deputy Grand Master E.B. Funk conducting the service. Ladies from Piper Chapter 578, O.E.S. acted as flower bearers, and there was also an escort from Gibb Post 588, American Legion, who conducted a short military service at the grave. There was a very large attendance, attesting the honor and esteem in which the deceased was held in the community.
Orville Alfred, son of Charles M. and Melvina Read, was born on their Sand Ridge farm, north of Piper City, Illinois, on the 27th of December, 1895; died at the Community Hospital in Gilman Thursday afternoon, July 29th, 1926.
His rudimentary education was received in the rural home school, and in 1915 he graduated from the high school in Kankakee, following with a year´s post graduate work in the same school.
In July, 1917, he enlisted in the U.S. navy at Norfolk, Va., where faithful service won for him a commission as ensign. His first service was on a patrol vessel guarding the coast from Maine to Florida. After his commission he was sent to Boston for three months, after which he was stationed at New York until his honorable discharge in 1919.
Returning home, he resumed work on the farm, and on the 24th of February, 1923, was united in marriage to Miss Clara Keiper. To this union two children were born, Lois Miriam, now 2 ½ years of age, and Alfred James, one year old. The wife and children survive, and he also leaves his mother, two brothers, Elmo and Edwin, with numerous other relatives and a host of friends.
In his early boyhood Orville united with the Methodist Episcopal church at Sand Ridge, and has lived an active, faithful and consistent Christian life. He was for seven years superintendent of the Sand Ridge Sunday school.
In fraternal circles he was a member of Piper Lodge No. 608, A.F. & A.M., and of Piper Chapter No. 578, O.E.S., and he was also an active member of Gibb Post No 588, American Legion.
As a man and a citizen he was held in the highest esteem. Upright and honorable, generous almost to a fault, and of a frank and genial disposition, to know him was to be a friend. Devoted to his home and family, he yet found time to mingle with neighbors and friends, to assist in every movement for advancement and betterment, and withal to be an important factor in the community life. As such, and as one whose place will be hard to fill, his death is mourned by the entire community.
Orville Read, aged 30 years, a farmer living several miles north- east of Piper City near the Sandridge church, was so severely injured in a binder runaway accident about nine o'clock last Thursday. forenoon, that he died from the results at the Gilman Community hospital at about two o´clock that same afternoon.
The young man was badly cut on both legs by the sickle on the machine, when the team ran away, while he was oiling the binder. Immediately after the accident he was placed in an automobile and rushed to the Gilman hospital. The wounds bled profusedly, and according to physicians attending him, death was due to the heavy loss of blood before receiving medical attention.
One leg received 1 cut about a foot in length, the flesh being sawed to the bone. and the other had a large hole in the muscle, it evidently having been puucturcd by one of the sickle guards.
According to the testimony of his brother, Elmo Read, at the coroner's inquest held here Thursday afternoon, Orville Read, Sam Blevens and himself, were cutting oats in the same field with three binders.
Blevens was in the lead, Orville Read was second and Elmo Read was in the rear, and the binders were about 80 rods apart. At about nine o'clock Sam Blevens and Orville Read stopped their machines at one corner of the field in order to oil them. When Blevens got through oiling his machine, he started out cutting again, and as he drove away he noticed that Orville was still busy
oiling.
A few moments later Elmo Read, who was coming from the rear, glanced up and saw Orville´s team circling with the binder. The horses ran about 75 or 100 feet and then broke lose from the machine. He ran to the scene and found his brother lying near the binder unconscious and with blood streaming from wounds on his legs. He stated that they placed Orville in an auto and rushed him with all speed to the hospital.
He said that lt was his belief that the team became frightened at something while Orville was oiling the machine, and that he was struck by the binder reel and thrown into the sickle when the horses started out.
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The Piper City Journal
SAD ACCIDENTAL DEATH
OrOille [sic, Orville] Read Killed Last Thursday When His Team Ran Away With A Binder At The Sam Blevins Place, In Pella
A distressing accident resulting in the death of Orville Read, one of the community´s finest young men, occurred last Thursday morning. Orville was cutting oats at the Sam Blevins place and dismounted from the binder to fix something about the sickle. The team became frightened and as they started to run Orville was caught by the sickle. One of his legs was almost severed and the other was terribly cut and lacerated by the guards of the machine. The accident happened about the middle of the forenoon and he was at once rushed to the Community Hospital in Gilman, but efforts to save his life were in vain and he passed away about two o´clock Thursday afternoon.
The body was taken to the home of his mother, Mrs. Melvina Read, and at two o´clock Saturday afternoon funeral services were conducted from the M.E. church in this city with the pastor, Rev. Ralph Dean in charge, assisted by Rev. W. D. Benjamin of Onarga and Rev. B.F. Eckley of Kankakee. Music was furnished by a sextet composed of Miss Susie Wilson, Mmes. C.F. White, E.B. Funk and I.B. Griffith, Messrs. Alex Watterson and A.G. Liebe, with Miss Eleanor Funk at the piano.
The funeral was under the auspices of Piper City Lodge No. 608, A.F. & A.M., and on account of the very inclement weather the Masonic ceremonies were held in the church, Deputy Grand Master E.B. Funk conducting the service. Ladies from Piper Chapter 578, O.E.S. acted as flower bearers, and there was also an escort from Gibb Post 588, American Legion, who conducted a short military service at the grave. There was a very large attendance, attesting the honor and esteem in which the deceased was held in the community.
Orville Alfred, son of Charles M. and Melvina Read, was born on their Sand Ridge farm, north of Piper City, Illinois, on the 27th of December, 1895; died at the Community Hospital in Gilman Thursday afternoon, July 29th, 1926.
His rudimentary education was received in the rural home school, and in 1915 he graduated from the high school in Kankakee, following with a year´s post graduate work in the same school.
In July, 1917, he enlisted in the U.S. navy at Norfolk, Va., where faithful service won for him a commission as ensign. His first service was on a patrol vessel guarding the coast from Maine to Florida. After his commission he was sent to Boston for three months, after which he was stationed at New York until his honorable discharge in 1919.
Returning home, he resumed work on the farm, and on the 24th of February, 1923, was united in marriage to Miss Clara Keiper. To this union two children were born, Lois Miriam, now 2 ½ years of age, and Alfred James, one year old. The wife and children survive, and he also leaves his mother, two brothers, Elmo and Edwin, with numerous other relatives and a host of friends.
In his early boyhood Orville united with the Methodist Episcopal church at Sand Ridge, and has lived an active, faithful and consistent Christian life. He was for seven years superintendent of the Sand Ridge Sunday school.
In fraternal circles he was a member of Piper Lodge No. 608, A.F. & A.M., and of Piper Chapter No. 578, O.E.S., and he was also an active member of Gibb Post No 588, American Legion.
As a man and a citizen he was held in the highest esteem. Upright and honorable, generous almost to a fault, and of a frank and genial disposition, to know him was to be a friend. Devoted to his home and family, he yet found time to mingle with neighbors and friends, to assist in every movement for advancement and betterment, and withal to be an important factor in the community life. As such, and as one whose place will be hard to fill, his death is mourned by the entire community.
FARMER DIES FROM BINDER ACCIDENT:
Orville Read, aged 30 years, a farmer living several miles north- east of Piper City near the Sandridge church, was so severely injured in a binder runaway accident about nine o'clock last Thursday. forenoon, that he died from the results at the Gilman Community hospital at about two o´clock that same afternoon.
The young man was badly cut on both legs by the sickle on the machine, when the team ran away, while he was oiling the binder. Immediately after the accident he was placed in an automobile and rushed to the Gilman hospital. The wounds bled profusedly, and according to physicians attending him, death was due to the heavy loss of blood before receiving medical attention.
One leg received 1 cut about a foot in length, the flesh being sawed to the bone. and the other had a large hole in the muscle, it evidently having been puucturcd by one of the sickle guards.
According to the testimony of his brother, Elmo Read, at the coroner's inquest held here Thursday afternoon, Orville Read, Sam Blevens and himself, were cutting oats in the same field with three binders.
Blevens was in the lead, Orville Read was second and Elmo Read was in the rear, and the binders were about 80 rods apart. At about nine o'clock Sam Blevens and Orville Read stopped their machines at one corner of the field in order to oil them. When Blevens got through oiling his machine, he started out cutting again, and as he drove away he noticed that Orville was still busy
oiling.
A few moments later Elmo Read, who was coming from the rear, glanced up and saw Orville´s team circling with the binder. The horses ran about 75 or 100 feet and then broke lose from the machine. He ran to the scene and found his brother lying near the binder unconscious and with blood streaming from wounds on his legs. He stated that they placed Orville in an auto and rushed him with all speed to the hospital.
He said that lt was his belief that the team became frightened at something while Orville was oiling the machine, and that he was struck by the binder reel and thrown into the sickle when the horses started out.
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The Piper City Journal
SAD ACCIDENTAL DEATH
OrOille [sic, Orville] Read Killed Last Thursday When His Team Ran Away With A Binder At The Sam Blevins Place, In Pella
A distressing accident resulting in the death of Orville Read, one of the community´s finest young men, occurred last Thursday morning. Orville was cutting oats at the Sam Blevins place and dismounted from the binder to fix something about the sickle. The team became frightened and as they started to run Orville was caught by the sickle. One of his legs was almost severed and the other was terribly cut and lacerated by the guards of the machine. The accident happened about the middle of the forenoon and he was at once rushed to the Community Hospital in Gilman, but efforts to save his life were in vain and he passed away about two o´clock Thursday afternoon.
The body was taken to the home of his mother, Mrs. Melvina Read, and at two o´clock Saturday afternoon funeral services were conducted from the M.E. church in this city with the pastor, Rev. Ralph Dean in charge, assisted by Rev. W. D. Benjamin of Onarga and Rev. B.F. Eckley of Kankakee. Music was furnished by a sextet composed of Miss Susie Wilson, Mmes. C.F. White, E.B. Funk and I.B. Griffith, Messrs. Alex Watterson and A.G. Liebe, with Miss Eleanor Funk at the piano.
The funeral was under the auspices of Piper City Lodge No. 608, A.F. & A.M., and on account of the very inclement weather the Masonic ceremonies were held in the church, Deputy Grand Master E.B. Funk conducting the service. Ladies from Piper Chapter 578, O.E.S. acted as flower bearers, and there was also an escort from Gibb Post 588, American Legion, who conducted a short military service at the grave. There was a very large attendance, attesting the honor and esteem in which the deceased was held in the community.
Orville Alfred, son of Charles M. and Melvina Read, was born on their Sand Ridge farm, north of Piper City, Illinois, on the 27th of December, 1895; died at the Community Hospital in Gilman Thursday afternoon, July 29th, 1926.
His rudimentary education was received in the rural home school, and in 1915 he graduated from the high school in Kankakee, following with a year´s post graduate work in the same school.
In July, 1917, he enlisted in the U.S. navy at Norfolk, Va., where faithful service won for him a commission as ensign. His first service was on a patrol vessel guarding the coast from Maine to Florida. After his commission he was sent to Boston for three months, after which he was stationed at New York until his honorable discharge in 1919.
Returning home, he resumed work on the farm, and on the 24th of February, 1923, was united in marriage to Miss Clara Keiper. To this union two children were born, Lois Miriam, now 2 ½ years of age, and Alfred James, one year old. The wife and children survive, and he also leaves his mother, two brothers, Elmo and Edwin, with numerous other relatives and a host of friends.
In his early boyhood Orville united with the Methodist Episcopal church at Sand Ridge, and has lived an active, faithful and consistent Christian life. He was for seven years superintendent of the Sand Ridge Sunday school.
In fraternal circles he was a member of Piper Lodge No. 608, A.F. & A.M., and of Piper Chapter No. 578, O.E.S., and he was also an active member of Gibb Post No 588, American Legion.
As a man and a citizen he was held in the highest esteem. Upright and honorable, generous almost to a fault, and of a frank and genial disposition, to know him was to be a friend. Devoted to his home and family, he yet found time to mingle with neighbors and friends, to assist in every movement for advancement and betterment, and withal to be an important factor in the community life. As such, and as one whose place will be hard to fill, his death is mourned by the entire community.
Orville Read, aged 30 years, a farmer living several miles north- east of Piper City near the Sandridge church, was so severely injured in a binder runaway accident about nine o'clock last Thursday. forenoon, that he died from the results at the Gilman Community hospital at about two o´clock that same afternoon.
The young man was badly cut on both legs by the sickle on the machine, when the team ran away, while he was oiling the binder. Immediately after the accident he was placed in an automobile and rushed to the Gilman hospital. The wounds bled profusedly, and according to physicians attending him, death was due to the heavy loss of blood before receiving medical attention.
One leg received 1 cut about a foot in length, the flesh being sawed to the bone. and the other had a large hole in the muscle, it evidently having been puucturcd by one of the sickle guards.
According to the testimony of his brother, Elmo Read, at the coroner's inquest held here Thursday afternoon, Orville Read, Sam Blevens and himself, were cutting oats in the same field with three binders.
Blevens was in the lead, Orville Read was second and Elmo Read was in the rear, and the binders were about 80 rods apart. At about nine o'clock Sam Blevens and Orville Read stopped their machines at one corner of the field in order to oil them. When Blevens got through oiling his machine, he started out cutting again, and as he drove away he noticed that Orville was still busy
oiling.
A few moments later Elmo Read, who was coming from the rear, glanced up and saw Orville´s team circling with the binder. The horses ran about 75 or 100 feet and then broke lose from the machine. He ran to the scene and found his brother lying near the binder unconscious and with blood streaming from wounds on his legs. He stated that they placed Orville in an auto and rushed him with all speed to the hospital.
He said that lt was his belief that the team became frightened at something while Orville was oiling the machine, and that he was struck by the binder reel and thrown into the sickle when the horses started out.
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The Piper City Journal
SAD ACCIDENTAL DEATH
OrOille [sic, Orville] Read Killed Last Thursday When His Team Ran Away With A Binder At The Sam Blevins Place, In Pella
A distressing accident resulting in the death of Orville Read, one of the community´s finest young men, occurred last Thursday morning. Orville was cutting oats at the Sam Blevins place and dismounted from the binder to fix something about the sickle. The team became frightened and as they started to run Orville was caught by the sickle. One of his legs was almost severed and the other was terribly cut and lacerated by the guards of the machine. The accident happened about the middle of the forenoon and he was at once rushed to the Community Hospital in Gilman, but efforts to save his life were in vain and he passed away about two o´clock Thursday afternoon.
The body was taken to the home of his mother, Mrs. Melvina Read, and at two o´clock Saturday afternoon funeral services were conducted from the M.E. church in this city with the pastor, Rev. Ralph Dean in charge, assisted by Rev. W. D. Benjamin of Onarga and Rev. B.F. Eckley of Kankakee. Music was furnished by a sextet composed of Miss Susie Wilson, Mmes. C.F. White, E.B. Funk and I.B. Griffith, Messrs. Alex Watterson and A.G. Liebe, with Miss Eleanor Funk at the piano.
The funeral was under the auspices of Piper City Lodge No. 608, A.F. & A.M., and on account of the very inclement weather the Masonic ceremonies were held in the church, Deputy Grand Master E.B. Funk conducting the service. Ladies from Piper Chapter 578, O.E.S. acted as flower bearers, and there was also an escort from Gibb Post 588, American Legion, who conducted a short military service at the grave. There was a very large attendance, attesting the honor and esteem in which the deceased was held in the community.
Orville Alfred, son of Charles M. and Melvina Read, was born on their Sand Ridge farm, north of Piper City, Illinois, on the 27th of December, 1895; died at the Community Hospital in Gilman Thursday afternoon, July 29th, 1926.
His rudimentary education was received in the rural home school, and in 1915 he graduated from the high school in Kankakee, following with a year´s post graduate work in the same school.
In July, 1917, he enlisted in the U.S. navy at Norfolk, Va., where faithful service won for him a commission as ensign. His first service was on a patrol vessel guarding the coast from Maine to Florida. After his commission he was sent to Boston for three months, after which he was stationed at New York until his honorable discharge in 1919.
Returning home, he resumed work on the farm, and on the 24th of February, 1923, was united in marriage to Miss Clara Keiper. To this union two children were born, Lois Miriam, now 2 ½ years of age, and Alfred James, one year old. The wife and children survive, and he also leaves his mother, two brothers, Elmo and Edwin, with numerous other relatives and a host of friends.
In his early boyhood Orville united with the Methodist Episcopal church at Sand Ridge, and has lived an active, faithful and consistent Christian life. He was for seven years superintendent of the Sand Ridge Sunday school.
In fraternal circles he was a member of Piper Lodge No. 608, A.F. & A.M., and of Piper Chapter No. 578, O.E.S., and he was also an active member of Gibb Post No 588, American Legion.
As a man and a citizen he was held in the highest esteem. Upright and honorable, generous almost to a fault, and of a frank and genial disposition, to know him was to be a friend. Devoted to his home and family, he yet found time to mingle with neighbors and friends, to assist in every movement for advancement and betterment, and withal to be an important factor in the community life. As such, and as one whose place will be hard to fill, his death is mourned by the entire community.
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