Hunt - John
JOHN HUNT
Source: Crawfordsville Review Thurs Feb 10, 1916
John HUNT a laborer was instantly killed while at work on repairing the tower of the 1st ME Church yesterday afternoon at about a quarter after one. Hunt was struck on the head by a heavy wooden bucket which fell from the tower about 70 feet above where he was working in the anti-room of the church. Two workmen on the scaffolding in the top of the tower saw the accident and hurried to Hunt's assistance but by the time that they got to him he was already dead. Hunt had been engaged in emptying the buckets filled with brick which the men at the top of the tower were sending down to him by means of a pulley. He had been warned repeatedly of the danger of passing under these buckets while they were drawn up but had not heeded the advice. Yesterday afternoon .... At the inquest held later in the afternoon by Coroner Williams, Albert Linn one of the men who were working in the tower and saw the accident testified that he saw the bucket fall and that he shouted to Hunt to watch out but that the bucket fell so rapidly the man below had no chance to heed the warning. .(sorry the paper was ripped) The receptacle itself did not strike the side walls of the tower during its descent so that the shouting of the man above was the only warning which Hunt received. Both Linn and Calvin Surber the other workman who were in the tower at the time of the accident testified before the coroner that the danger from the descending bucket was well known and that a block had been placed in the pulley so that the filled buckets would not descend too rapidly. They said that the filled receptacle weighed close to 200 pounds and that a sudden jerk upon it such as given by Hunt would easily unfasten the iron hook from the ascending bucket. They said that they went to the assistance of the injured man just as soon as they could make the descent from the tower but that he had probably died just as soon as he was struck. Hunt had lived in this city for a number of years, coming here from Mace. He had been engaged in Carpenter work but had gone to work for Swan & Son when they started to repair the tower a few days ago. he was 35 and had made his home with his mother, Mrs. Wesley Hunt of Wallace Ave where the body was removed last night. Besides his mother he is survived by 3 brothers: Fred B. of this city; George of Indianapolis and Charles of St. Louis. Funeral services will be held at the home 610 S Plum Friday afternoon at 1. Burial in Knights of Pythias in Mace.