George Foral
contributor: Nadene
Korotev and Descendants
Union Farmer Herald - Oconto Falls
Jan 22, 1915
KILLED BY
A LOGGING TRAIN
Foral, Of Spruce Run Over
Saturday Night
Coming Back From Lakewood During Blizzard
and Failed To See Logging Train
Lakewood - George Foral of Spruce logging company met
with a violent death during the blizzard near Lakewood last Saturday night.
He left Lakewood where he had been on business and walked west
on the trail for about four miles, intending to catch the logging train
of the Holt Lumber Co. at a sput, but the darkness and raging snow storm
made it difficult for him to see his way. He stopped in McCurdy's camp
and borrowed a lantern, after which he took the spur track, it is supposed
with the intention of making the road to the spur logging railroad ahead
of the train. The train, however, had reached the junction and was backing
some empty flat cars down on the spur and it is conjuectured that Mr. Foral,
owing to the blizzard, did not see or hear the train until he was struck.
The trainmen knew nothing of the accident until the discovery of
the body of Mr. Foral next morning lying alongside the track. One leg had
been amputated and several severe contusions were observed on his face
and head and had been given apparently with sufficient force to render
him unconcious. His body was forzen when found. A coroner's jury was impaneled
by Coroner Geroge Jones of Oconto and this body rendered a verdict of accidental
death.
The body was brought to his home in Spruce and buried in the
Behemian(sic) burial ground in that town Tuesday. There were 175 teams
in the funeral cortege, which formed in a line one and a half miles along
- the largest ever held in Oconto county.
Mr. Foral was about 29 years of age and was a hardworking industrious
man and this winter was putting in logs under a contract from the Oconto
Lumber Company.
He is survived by a wife and his aged mother. He was highly
regarded by his lifelong neighbors and friends.
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