This week’s #FridayFind is a tragedy

Early 20th-century newspapers pulled no punches. When reporting the cause of death, they often gave far more detail than our modern sensibilities are used to. What you’re looking at here is the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s reporting on the death of William Wolfgang Hacker. Instead of just reporting the cause of death as a workplace accident, we learn he was “struck in the abdomen by a board that flew out of a rip saw he was operating.”

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William Hacker Circumstances of his Death, St. Louis Post Dispatch, 26 Feb 1921.