A Half-Back Killed

Des Moines, Nov. 27. - Calvin Farmer, of Sac City, Iowa, seventeen years of age, is dead as the result of injuries received in a football game. with the team from Salt Lake City on Thanksgiving Day.

The lad was playing left half-back and was thrown while carrying the ball, injuring his stomach. Peritonitis later developed and the sickness resulted fatally.

[Patriot, Harrisburg, Penn., Published November 28, 1904, submitted by cd=fofg]

Cremated In Jail

Fire Destroys the Sac City, Iowa, Court House - A Prisoner Burned.

Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 4. - The court house at Sac City was burned to the ground during the night. Part of the records were destroyed, and possibly all.

A prisoner named Charles Carlson perished in the flames, as he was locked up in the evening and has not been seen since. The body has not been found, however.

[Aberdeen Daily News, Aberdeen, South Dakota, Published October 05, 1888, submitted by cd=fofg]

Death in a Well

Sac City, Iowa, May 7. -- (Special.) -- A sad accident occurred on the farm of C. N. Day, three miles from this city. Elmer Spicer and Joshua Gerry had been engaged in boring a well and had gotten down about sixty feet. While Spicer was being lowered into the well, standing upon a stick of wood at the end of a rope, he was overcome by the foul air at about ten feet from the surface of the ground and fell fully fifty feet to the bottom.

Both legs were broken above the ankles and driven into the ground by force of the fall. He was dead when taken out, death having been almost instantaneous.

[Omaha World Herald - Published May 8, 1894, submitted by Frances=FOFG]

Family Were Surprised

The Supposed Dead Man Entered His Home on Thanksgiving Day

Omaha, Neb., Nov. 29.—E. W. Miller, of Sac City, Iowa, had not been home for a year, having been employed as a Western Union lineman.

Thanksgiving day when he walked through the door of his home his mother fainted, and the other members of the family were for some time over come that they were unable to explain the facts to the astonished visitor.

Finally they told Miller that he was suppose to have died in Council Bluffs, and that a corpse supposed to be his was to arrive from that city and be buried the following morning.

A telegram was immediately sent to Council Bluffs containing instructions not to forward the body.

The E. W. Miller who had died was a clerk in the Burlington office in Council Bluffs, where he died in a hospital. Miller had received letters bearing directions to return to Miss Maggie Miller, Sac City, Iowa, if not delivered. A telegram was sent to that address announcing that E. W. Miller was dead, and asking for instructions regarding the disposition of the body. Miss Miller naturally inferred that the dead man was her brother.

It is supposed that mail addressed to the Sac City man while he was in Council Bluffs was through mistake delivered to the E. …Miller of that city, who was then ill in the hospital.

[Tucson Daily Citizen, Published November 29, 1902, submitted by cd=fofg]

Jealously Caused His Crime

Sac City, Iowa, Oct. 1. - Last evening Wm. Tole killed his wife with an axe. He called a neighbor to witness his crime and then cut his own throat. Jealousy is said to have been the cause.

[Boston Daily Advertiser, Published October 02, 1894, submitted by cd=fofg]

Lightning Kills Three

Triple Fatality on a Farm Near Odebolt

Odebolt, Ia., Aug. 9. - Special:

C. J. and Arthur Johnson, brothers, and A. O. Anderson, were killed by lightning this afternoon. They were thrashing, and a storm coming up, they took refuge under a straw stack. Anderson was C. J. Johnson’s brother-in-law.

[Sioux City Journal, Sioux City, Iowa, Published August 10, 1895, submitted by cd=fofg]

One Way

Of Getting Even With a Banker Who Forecloses a Mortgage

Des Moines, Ia., Dec. 12.—At Sac City, Iowa, this afternoon, W. D. Sansom, an eccentric farmer, entered the First National bank and holding a revolver in the face of the assistant cashier, demanded and received a pile of money lying near the cashier’s window, amounting to nearly $400, and ran across the street, passed through several stores and made his way to the country.

Sheriff Batts and others followed him closely and in less than an hour he was found in a barn east of town. The money was recovered. The bank recently foreclosed a mortgage on Sansom’s farm and it is thought he took that way to get even.

[Grand Forks Herald, Published December 13, 1899, submitted by cd=fofg]

Three Die When Autos Collide at Corner

Sac City, Iowa, Jan. 2, - Three persons were killed and another injured seriously when two automobiles collided near here Friday.

The dead are Lee Gates, Sac City, and Mr. and Mrs. Doss of Rockwell City, Iowa.

A daughter of the Dosses, who was riding with them, was critically injured.

Gates was driving one car and Doss the other. The two met head-on at a highway corner.

[Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Texas, Published January 03, 1931, submitted by cd=fofg]

Three Dead; Five Seriously Hurt

Frightful Accident Happens to a Force of Workmen at Odebolt, Iowa

Walls of a Building Gutted by Fire Collapse While Being Repaired

Odebolt, Ia., Feb. 9.—Three men were killed and several more were injured in the collapse of the ruins of the Madison-Motie general store here this afternoon.

The dead are:
Charles Krusenstjerna, 30 years old; married; three children.
Harry Johnson, 21 years old, single.
Charles J. Hanson, 36 years; married.

The seriously injured are:
Mat Meyer, crushed, will die.
Young Titus.
Andrew Salstrom.
Joseph Conrad.
Gil McFarland.

Last Monday night the store caught fire and before the flames could be subdued the whole interior of the building which was two stories in height, was burned out.

The men who were caught in the death trap today were working on the inside of an unsupported wall. Scaffolding had been built to the top of the wall and the work of starting to straighten the walls was well underway when, without warning, the wall collapsed, the mass of bricks falling inward and burying eight or ten men under the mass of debris. The streets were filled with farmers, who had come to town to do their Saturday trading, and in a brief time the work of rescuing the victims was underway.

[Omaha World Herald, Omaha, Nebraska, Published February 10, 1907, submitted by cd=fofg]

Two Brothers Killed In Home In Iowa Town

Sac City, Iowa, May 30.—James and Matthew Wright, brothers, were slain at their home here at an early hour this morning.

Clifford Wilson, also of this city, is in jail, charged with the crime, while a posse, under the direction of the sheriff, is searching for an unidentified man alleged to have been with Wilson at the time of the tragedy.

[Duluth News Tribune, Published May 31, 1911, submitted by cd=fofg]

Two Men Lose Sight In Dynamite Explosion

Sac city, Ia, Sept 29 - Two men suffered loss of sight Wednesday when they came too close to an explosion of dynamite. The injured men are Floyd Lang and Glenn Gerry, both married men and residents of Sac City.

The accident occurred on the Claude Keir place at the south edge of town where the tow were engaged in digging a well. They let down some dynamite to remove an obstruction, lit the fuse and retired to a safe distance. After waiting for what they thought was plety of time to allow for the explosion, both men approached the well and looked down just as the explosion occured. Lang lost one eye and Gerry's sight was totally destroyed. They were rushed to a local physician's office and were taken to the hospital at Carroll.

Mr. Lang is the father of three children. Mr. Gerry was recently married after having been in the army for a short time.

[The Milford Mail, Published Oct 30, 1919, submitted by Daniel Marr]

W. J. Dixon Lumber Company

Articles of incorporation have been filed with the secretary of state by the W. J. Dixon Lumber company of Sac City with a capital stock of $50,000.

[Clinton Mirror, Lyons P.O., Clinton, Iowa, Published Aug. 12, 1899, submitted by Cathy Danielson]