Albert Lense
Cincinnati Enquirer, Sunday, 2 June 1901, page 3
ACCIDENT
Albert Lense, a small boy, met with a horrible accident in the
brick yards near the car barns back of Newport yesterday afternoon, and his
death is but the question of a few hours. The lad, who is 12 years of age, was
playing about the pit in the brick yard. A huge wheel is slowly turned by a
horse that walks about in a circle.
Young Lense amused himself by climbing on the wheel as it slowly revolved and his head became caught between a spoke of the wheel and the mushy clay. The boy's head was slowly forced into the bed of clay, while the driver, hearing the screams, was making frantic efforts to stop the horse. When he succeeded low moans took the place of scream and it was found that the boy's skull had been crushed as an egg shell under pressure.
He was extricated from the pit and taken to his home at Fourteenth and John street in the patron wagon. Dr. Phythian and Siler were summoned, but the physicians stated that the cause was hopeless.