Richard Clark, 15, a student at the Unadilla Central School [Otsego Co., NY], was instantly killed Sunday night, when he grabbed a high tension wire while climbing on the girders of the Susquehanna River bridge, at that place. Dr. Norman Getman, Otsego County coroner, after a check of the accident is satisfied that the lad lost his balance while climbing on the bridge, and grabbing the high tension wire, fell 15 feet to the floor of the bridge. The victim's right leg was fractured in the fall and the wire burned deep into the palm of this left hand. A companion who was with him summoned aid, but attempts to revive the boy by means of artificial respiration were futile. [Bainbridge News & Republican, July 22, 1943]
An O.&W. fireman was crushed to death at 8:54 Monday morning in a head-on collision between two freight trains at the south end of the Walton yards. Three large freight engines were badly damaged in the crash. The fireman was Ralph E. Monroe, 38, of East Pharsalia, Chenango County. He was unmarried and had been working for the railroad about a year and a half. He lacked only a split second of escaping with his life as he was standing in the gangway between engine and tender, one foot on the step and grasping the handrail, ready to jump, when the collision forced the engine back on the tender pinning him between the two and crushing out his life. The other five men of the crews of the three engines involved in the collision jumped before the crash. Railroad officials and workers are non-committal as to the cause of the head-on collision and probably blame will not be placed until there is an official investigation Commission. [Bainbridge News & Republican, July 29, 1943]
Clarence Helm, 45, a life-long resident of Unadilla [Otsego Co., NY], died Wednesday morning of a heart attack. Mr Helm, evidently feeling ill, dressed and went out o the house early. He was found a short time afterwards by members of his family on the bridge which crosses Martin brook, near the rear of his home. Dr. John M. Constantine acting as coroner, pronounced death due to a heart attack. [Bainbridge News & Republican, July 22, 1943]
Funeral services for Emerson Scofield, of Masonville [Delaware Co., NY], were held Monday afternoon in Colwell Brothers Funeral Home, Bainbridge. The Rev. Harold Hammer of the Federated Church at Masonville, officiated and burial was in Bainbridge cemetery [Chenango Co., NY]. The funeral was in charge of Masons, of which he was a member. The sudden death of Mr. Scofield Friday morning came as a shock to the people of the community, as he had been in usual health. His wife noticed that he was not breathing normally and called a physician but he passed away before the doctor arrived. Born about 63 years ago at North Sanford, he was the son of the late Charles R. and DeEtta (Keith) Scofield. He was a lumberman by trade and was well known throughout Delaware, Chenango and Schoharie counties. Surviving are his wife, Five sons, Louis, Sidney; Charles, near Otego; Glenn, Binghamton; Leo, a private in artillery located in Texas, and Lavern, Masonville; one daughter; besides his aged mother, of Oxford, and one sister, Mrs. W.B. Ruland, Sidney; and a number of grandchildren. [Bainbridge news & Republican, July 15, 1943]
Oneonta [Otsego Co., NY]: Arthur Wellington Earing, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Earing, of Portlandville, was killed Sunday morning when he coasted from a driveway near his home and was struck by a car. According to state police at the Oneonta substation, the youth coasted into the road in front of his home and he was struck by a vehicle driven by Dr. John F. Jensen, veterinarian with Sheffield Farms Co., this city. Dr. Jensen, police said, told them he did not see the youth until he was almost upon him and stepped on the accelerator hoping to get past the spot before the vehicle struck him. Dr. Norman W. Getman, Otsego County coroner, issued a verdict of accidental death due to a fractured skull. [Bainbridge News & Republican, Jan. 3, 1946]
J. Edward Hurlburt, 75, of Binghamton [Broome Co., NY], a veteran Broome County educator died Sunday in the Binghamton City Hospital. He was admitted to City Hospital Friday morning. Death was attributed to a chronic heart ailment. Mr Hurlburt retired Aug. 1, 1936, after 36 years and seven months as school commissioner and superintendent of Broome's Second Supervisory School District. Son of the late George E. and Julia A. Hurlburt, the Hillcrest man was born Mar. 1, 1870, at Perch Pond HIll in the Town of Colesville [Broome Co., NY]. [Bainbridge news & Republican, Jan 3, 1946]
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