Bemis Clarence01

Waupaca Post

August 30, 1906

HOW HE WAS KILLED

From the Birchwood Press, the following facts regarding the accidental death of Clarence H. Bemis are learned;

Mr. Bemis was one of a crew unloading piling from flat cars near Hoffmann, Minn., the work being done for the Soo extension. In unloading a car, the piling came off, the wrong side, twenty huge logs falling upon Clarence, crushing his life out almost instantly. Through some mistake the takes which held the logs in place had been cut through, and when Bemis cut the wire across the top, the logs came his way, and he was unable to dodge them.