“His body was rapidly drawn in…crushing it into a pulp of quivering, bleeding flesh.”
It was a windy day in Potsdam, MN, and a nearby grist mill was becoming “unmanageable.” Four men, including 20-year-old William A. McCarren, went in to bring it under control. Then a terrible thing happened.
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God damn, that’s a horrifying way to die
That really grinds my gears.
I'll see myself out…
Ouch
Hate to be a "party-pooper" here – but this is FAKE NEWS – Yes, they had fake news back then too. Sorry to say. It's a fine, well-done video documentary, but many stories such as this exist in historical newspapers. Then as now, violent news stories grab the readers attention and gruesome stories (like these) were actually sold to regional newspapers to boost circulation and usually took place in some "out-of-the-way" place. A fictitious name (usually an Irishman) meets a horrible death in some manner (e.g.) dragged into a machine (or) ground to death under a train, etc. The words and situations are re-arranged a little and the names are changed, but it's still the same story. This particular fable can be traced to Denver CO and followed the train to Chicago and East to NY City. This same story was reported to have happened in my hometown in NY State, but our astute County Historian researched the truth. In fact, you can "track" this story as it goes from city to city – further down the railroad line heading East. As each town got one of these stories, some editors spiced them up for gruesome effect – changing the windmill to a rolling machine or some other horrible manner of death.
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