On This Date in Minnesota History: February 23

February 23, 1914 – W. E. Wade, an immigrant on his way from Sterling, Ill., to Greenbush, Minn., to settle on a farm in that neighborhood, was fatally injured on the Great Northern railway this afternoon. Mr. Wade was traveling with a car of household goods and livestock. His car was switched off near the stockyards in thief River Falls.

While Wade was attending to his stock in the car, an engine bumped into it and caused Wade to be thrown to the floor of the car under the horses’ feet. The horses being somewhat frightened by the shock, trampled on their owner, wounding him so severely that he died shortly after he had been removed to one of the hotels in Thief River Falls.

The Duluth Herald; “Illinois Man is Trampled to Death. Coming to Minnesota to Locate, Killed at Thief River Falls.”; Feb. 24, 1914; p. 6.

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