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Show Mayfield Man Crushed Beneath Loaded Wagon Andrew Anderson Held Prisoner Nineteen Nine-teen Hours In Terrible Agony-Dies Agony-Dies Following Rescue. After lying pinned under a heavy - lend of lumber from 5 o'clock Monday Mon-day evening until 12 o'clock noon Tuesday, suffering the tortures of the cold and pain, and to be rescued, by Lev: is Andtrson, Andrew S. Anderson Ander-son died at his homo at Mayfield last Wednesday morning. The accident and the results following has cast a gloom over the entire community and all are shocked at the' tragic ending of the prominent young man. Andrew Anderson, more familiarly known as Andrew "Swen" Anderson, was returning with a load of lumber j from the Anderson sawmills in i Twelve Mile canyon. When near Lirch creek the reach in the wagon broke. Mr. Anderson climbed from his wagon, according to his own statements, and was trying to adjust the broken parts. In some manner the hoi ses moved the heavily loaded vehicle and Anderson was caught and placed in such a position that he could not extricate himself. He lay there tor nineteen hours and was unconscious when rescued by Lewis Anderson. The injured man was hurried to his home in Mayfield and Dr. ilagan responded to a hurry call. Administrat i'. es were applied and! eve.yihhig possible done to relieve: the suffering ot the unfortunate, bui : without, avail, and death claimed its victim. An examination of the injuries were, not at ' first thought to be of a serious nature. The leg that had been caught was badly bruised, and one of the shoulders was blackened, thought to have resulted in the sirug-bles sirug-bles of the man to free himseli. ohortly before his death Mr. Anderson Ander-son complained of severe pains in ais stomach, and it is believed thai internal injuries, superinduced by the . long, exposure in the Cold, was the direct cause of death. Not -until just, before he died did Mr. Anderson Ander-son lose consciousness. He talked ireely of his experience and related how the faithful horses, who, after being placed in the position by the tightened reins, remained so all during the nineteen hours. Lewis Anderson, who was going to the canyon for lumber and who discovered dis-covered the unfortunate man, did everything possible as first-aid re-iief re-iief and then hurried the injured to Mayfield. Andrew Anderson was about 45 years of age and unmarried. He had. resided in Mayfield for several years and was loved and highly respected re-spected by all who knew him. He has two brothers living, one being employed em-ployed in the vicinity of Marysvale, Mid the other surviving brother at 'vfayfield. |