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- from Newspaper Obituary, 15 Jul 1919
INJURIES ARE FATAL
Lambert L. Woods Passes Away Last Evening - Was Hurt Sunday Morning.
RESPECTED FARMER VICTIM OF ACCIDENT
Was Struck Down in Some Unexpected Manner While Operating Gasoline Engine
It is with a keen feeling of sorrow that we record the sudden death last night of Lambert L. Woods, resulting from an accident which occurred early Sunday. The funeral will take place tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock from the home, just west of the city limits on the River to River Road. The Elks will have charge of the services at the grave. Special music will be rendered by the Elks' Quartet. The injuries which caused death were inflicted in some unknown manner by the gasoline engine on Mr. Woods' farm. The most serious was a severe fracture of the skull at the base of the brain. There was another puncture fracture near the top of the head on the left side, the lower jaw was badly broken and several ribs on the left side were fractured, one or more of them puncturing the lung. The cause of the accident will never be explained. Mr. Woods was alone at the time and never regained consciousness. His sister, Miss Almeda Woods, was with him when he started the engine in the little engine house. He was operating his cream separator. She stepped out of the engine house and had not been away from her brother's side two minutes when she heard the crash. Rushing back into the shed, she found Lambert lying unconscious in a comer, where he had evidently been thrown violently. Evidently in some way he had come into contact with the revolving fly wheel. The writer has known Mr. Woods from boyhood. He was a bright, strong, promising boy and when he entered college he proved a thorough student and careful scholar, especially along scientific lines. He graduated in 1890, one of Professor Joseph Torrey's best students, with a broad knowledge of chemistry and electricity. He soon after took a position as chemist with the Griffin Steel and Foundry Co. in Chicago and afterwards a similar position as expert chemist with the Colorado Steel and Iron Co. of Pueblo. Both these positions he held with credit and success, coming back to Grinnell at the time of his father's death to manage the home place and be with his mother and sisters. At home he has been a loving son and brother and nobly gave up his life's ambition to be with the mother and sisters -whom he loved so much. Mr. Woods was well known as a long time resident of this community, respected and honored by all who knew him, and universal regret is expressed at his death. He was a member of the Order of Elks and at his next birthday would have been 52 years of age
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1867 - 1919 (51 years)