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Christopher Behrens

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Christopher Behrens

Birth
Germany
Death
24 Sep 1894 (aged 45)
Walsh County, North Dakota, USA
Burial
Crystal, Pembina County, North Dakota, USA GPS-Latitude: 48.5875889, Longitude: -97.6653528
Plot
Block 2, Lot 58
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He and five other men killed in a threshing machine boiler explosion on a farm near Crystal, ND.

Grave marker says April 29, 1849 - September 24, 1895. However newspapers articles from Grand Forks Hearld and Lima Times Democrat, Lima, Ohio, regarding the accident are dated September 1894.

Lima Times Democrat , Lima Ohio, Thursday, September 27, 1894, Page 1
SIX MEN KILLED. Terrible Fatal Boiler Explosion on a Farm Near Crystal. Four Men Instantly Killed - Two of Them Die from Their Injuries And Several Others Seriously Hurt - Low Water in Boiler ---- Crystal, N.D., Sept. 26 - The boiler of a threshing machine on the farm of Wm. Cain, three miles northwest of Crystal exploded last evening with fearful effect, four men being killed instantly, two others fatally hurt and have since died of their inuries, and another will die and several others are seriously injured. THE DEAD . F. A. Banoger, engineer, of Argyle, Minn. married: Nick Phillips, Fireman, St. Paul, married; Robert Hawthorne, Crystal, N. D. , single: Chris Behrens, Crystal, N. D., married: Charles Shepard, Lomis, Man., married: Alex Proux, Olga, N. D., married. The last wo names died today of their injuries. Each leave a wife and five children.
He and five other men killed in a threshing machine boiler explosion on a farm near Crystal, ND.

Grave marker says April 29, 1849 - September 24, 1895. However newspapers articles from Grand Forks Hearld and Lima Times Democrat, Lima, Ohio, regarding the accident are dated September 1894.

Lima Times Democrat , Lima Ohio, Thursday, September 27, 1894, Page 1
SIX MEN KILLED. Terrible Fatal Boiler Explosion on a Farm Near Crystal. Four Men Instantly Killed - Two of Them Die from Their Injuries And Several Others Seriously Hurt - Low Water in Boiler ---- Crystal, N.D., Sept. 26 - The boiler of a threshing machine on the farm of Wm. Cain, three miles northwest of Crystal exploded last evening with fearful effect, four men being killed instantly, two others fatally hurt and have since died of their inuries, and another will die and several others are seriously injured. THE DEAD . F. A. Banoger, engineer, of Argyle, Minn. married: Nick Phillips, Fireman, St. Paul, married; Robert Hawthorne, Crystal, N. D. , single: Chris Behrens, Crystal, N. D., married: Charles Shepard, Lomis, Man., married: Alex Proux, Olga, N. D., married. The last wo names died today of their injuries. Each leave a wife and five children.

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