This post was contributed to the Crawford County Chapter of OGS by Kristina Stearley as part of the Florence Siefert Scrapbook in 2010.
The scrapbook is compiled from undated, unidentified newspaper clippings involving events in the lives of Crawford County citizens living in or having connections to New Washington, Tiro, Shelby, Sulphur Springs, Chatfield, Bucyrus, Ashland, Mansfield, and other areas. Only minimal spelling or punctuation corrections were made. Unreadable areas are shown by underlines, dots &/or question marks. This collection has been scanned, “optical character recognized” (OCR’d), proofed, then coded for HTML by volunteers of the Crawford County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society. Since the copies are not of the best quality errors may have been made. Please contact us if you find corrections needing to be made or can verify any missing dates which could be added.
KILLED BY A HORSE
Last Friday I. A. Spencer who resided 4 miles northeast of this place came to town with a load of hay which he delivered at the Penn’a station. While decending from the load at the front end, he accidentally struck one of the horses, which becoming frightened kicked, striking Mr. Spencer on the side of the head. He was immediately taken to the Central Hotel where physicians were summoned to examine his condition. An examination of his injuries revealed the fact that it was only a question of a few hours until death would end his suffering. A messenger was hurriedly sent to the wife of the unfortunate man informing her of the serious accident which had befallen her husband. Mrs. Spencer arrived only to see her husband expire, which occurred at 11:30 a.m., just two hours after the accident happened. The remains of the deceased were embalmed and taken home in the afternoon. Funeral services were held last Tuesday. Mr. Spencer was about 65 years old. The bereaved family has the sympathy of the entire community.
