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OSHKOSH NORTHWESTERN

January 16, 1868

 

MAN KILLED NEAR FREMONT

Correspondence of the Daily Northwestern.

 

FREMONT, Jan. 10, 1868

 

            DEAR NORTHWESTERN – A sad accident occurred last Monday, about six miles south east from this village, near Rat River.

            The facts as I learn them are these.  A young man by the name of Boyer was engaged in chopping down a pine tree.  As it fell it hit another tree, breaking off a limb, which struck Mr. Boyer, killing him almost instantly.  He lived about four minutes.

            But the same day at “Goffee’s camp,” some three miles south of Fremont, a tree fell across a yoke of valuable oxen crushing them so that it became necessary to kill them at once.  I understand the “boys” at the camp, with a noble generosity characteristic of Wisconsin lumbermen, have made up a handsome purse to assist the unfortunate owner in purchasing another pair.