Potter - James B. - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Fowler, Ind., Nov. 25—John R. Beach, a farmer residing four and a half miles from this place, purchased a traction engine and separator of a man living in Oxford, and Sunday fired it up to removed it from Oxford to his home. He reached home with it about 4 o’clock Sunday afternoon, and ran it into the barnyard of his place. About half an hour late, while Mr. Beach was in the house, the boiler of the engine let loose with terrific force, instantly killing the engineer, James B. Potter, and seriously injuring two others, Jacob Monroe and E. P. Mound, who were arranging things about the separator.  The body of Potter was picked up about two hundred feet from the spot where the accident occurred. It was charred and unrecognizable.