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Welcome to Oaklandon Thursday, March 28 2024 @ 05:08 AM EDT

FARMER CRUSHED UNDER A TRACTOR

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Greencastle Herald
Greencastle, Putnam County, 23 March 1928

FARMER CRUSHED UNDER A TRACTOR

FARMER CRUSHED UNDER A TRACTOR
INDIANAPOLIS, Mar. 23.—(INS)] Coroner C. H. Keever opened an inquest here today into the death of Herman Klepfer, 32-year old Oaklandon farmer, whose life was crushed out by a heavy tractor which overturned on him.

It required fourteen men to lift the cumbersome machine off Klepfer's body. The accident happened when Klepfer was trying to drive the tractor out of a ravine and went up too sleep an embankment. The tractor fell over backwards.

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