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BIOGRAPHY:
Rochester, Monroe, NY
Democrat & Chronicle
Sat Aug 12, 1916
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Accident on Steep Road on East River Bank
Jacob WEGMAN, 45 years old, an employee of the Rochester Railway and Light Company, met almost instant death last evening when he was caught beneath a stone crusher on Redfield street hill, leading to the company's property at the foot of the east bank on the river.
With WEGMAN was Walter PERRY, 3_ years old, of No. 55 Broadway. It was after 6 o'clock when the men started to take the crusher, to which a dump wagon was attached to the company's premises at the foot of the steep bank. Two teams were used in drawing crusher and wagon to the hill. When the descent began the crusher was leading the way. A team was attached to it in front and another team was used in the rear. A laborer was told to put stones under the crusher's wheels at intervals to hold it in check.
The start down the hill was made, it is said, with no steel shoes attached to the wheels of the crusher or the dump wagon in the rear. When part way down the step incline, it is said, the men unhitched the team in the rear and put it in front of the other team.
Half way down the hill the heavy crusher owing to its great momentum, got out of the control of WEGMAN and PERRY and jammed against a wall at the side of the roadway. WEGMAN was caught beneath it. PERRY was struck and thrown some distance. He has compound fracture of the left arm and the left leg.
Help was summoned from the gas works, but WEGMAN was dead. PERRY was removed to the Homeopathic Hospital. The dead man lived at No. 137 Magne street.

Jacob married Mary E. Unknown about 1904 in Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA. Mary was born in 1870 in New York, USA; died in 1931 in Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anna married Joseph F. McElhaney in 1924 in Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA. Joseph was born in 1904 in Georgia, USA; died in in Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]