SUDDEN DEATHS
PAOLI RUPUBLICAN - October
11, 1893
Below we give a list of accidental deaths of Orange County people and sudden deaths of strangers in our borders. If anyone can add to it the information will gladly be received.
| John Caplinger | killed by a runaway team. |
| Professor Wilbur | fell out of balloon. |
| Jesse Mitchell | horse fell on him. |
| Son of Carter White | saw log. |
| Son of Eli Lindley | killed by run away horse. |
| Thomas Greer Riggs | killed by driving under a leaning tree. |
| James W. Webb | suicide by morphine. |
| James Dillard | killed on railroad. |
| Ivie Morgan | burned to death. |
| Nicholson Millis | killed by horse in stall. |
| Son of Wm. Brown | shot. |
| Hamilton | killed by falling from a scaffold. |
| John Homes | killed by a run away team. |
| Wm. Leonard | killed by accidental discharge of gun. |
| Bill George | drank himself to death. |
| ___ Vest | killed by Indians. |
| Will Guy | killed by Miller. |
| Sanders | killed by Scott. |
| Squire Kenley | killed by George Hampton. |
| Woodward | (father of the one killed by Wm. Sanders)killed by Sanders also. |
| Wm. Charles | killed at French Lick by the Indians |
| Child of Jerry Aiken | killed by log rolling over it. |
| Michael Messick | killed by falling tree. |
| Nathan Fielder | killed by horse falling on him. |
| Jack McCormick | killed by run away team. |
| Son of Wm. Vontress | killed by a horse. |
| Wm. Scott | killed in Paoli. |
| Levi Loggins (colored) | hung by a mob. |
| Wm. Freeman | killed by Neidiffer with a fire shovel. |
| Sam Bunch | murdered in a cave. |
| Jacob A. Sanders | killed by train on O & M railroad. |
| Tramp | killed by train at Murray's switch. |
| Unknown man | fell from and killed by show train just east of Orleans |
| Enoch and William Wolfington | killed by train at Orleans depot. |
| Son of James Stevens | killed by train. |
| Wm. Richards | killed by falling from frieght train at Louisville. |
| Tom Busick | shot and killed by Joe Tucker in Orleans. |
| Son of Reed Wallen | killed by saw log. |
| Charley Lingle | (Son of Henry Lingle) drowned in Brookstown pond. |
| Wm. Donnell | drowned in the David Hudleson pond. |
| Aaron Wright | (son of Elijah Wright) died from damps in a well. |
| Henry Webb | killed in a well by a falling rock. |
| Mrs. McGowin | committted suicide by shooting herself through the heart. |
| Ben Wright | decapitated by a train on the Monon. |
| Pauper | died on Lindley farm south of Orleans. |
| John Moore | (son of John Moore) killed at Salt Creek bridge on railroad. |
| Nimrod Parish | soldier, killed by John McCart. |
| John McCart | killed same day by friends of Parish. |
| ___ Neidiffer | killed on railroad. |
| Tom Moody | asissinated. |
| henry Wires | killed by Ambrose Parish with a pocket knife. |
| Jim Taylor | shot and killed by Warren Foster in Orleans. |
| James Cunningham | committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. |
| Pritchard and Tungate | hung on Lost River bridge by a mob. |
| Matilda Lee | committed suicide by hanging herself. |
| A Miss Parsons | hung herself. |
| Newton Breeden | froze to death between French Lick and West Baden. |
| Sam Roby | suicide by the morphine route. |
| Joshua Robinson | suicide. |
| Joe Giles | fell on crowbar. |
| Ora Beulah | killed by train on O & M railroad. |
| Mamie Jones | drowned in a well. |
| John Webb | assissinated. |
| John Noblitt | killed at Insane Asylum in Kansas. |
| Will Richardson | suicide by morphine. |
| Will Steers | suicide. |
| Son of Wm. Braxtan | killed by horse. |
| Son of Robert White | killed by horse. |
| Solomon Apple | tree fell on him. |
| John Stockinger | tree fell on him. |
| Two Children of Isaiah Kendall | drowned. |
| Blacksmith Kenley | shot at Nebo by John Hampton with a shot gun. |
| Wiley Cope | boiler explosion. |
| Tom Lindsey | killed by runaway horse. |
| Allan Slaton | killed by train. |
| Ulrich Sailor | killed by train. |
| George Beswick | fell from hay loft. |
| Son of J.N. Murphy | killed by horse power. |
| George Russell | killed by saw log. |
| Sam McCoy | killed by horse. |
| Jesse and Kinder Wininger | killed by sawmill boiler bursting. |
| Nelson Land | suicide, shot himself in mouth with shot gun. |
| Ahai Seyboldt | killed to death by a horse. |
| Andy Seyboldt | killed in West Baden by Wm. Tiddall. |
| Robert Lynd | slid off of stack on pitch fork. |
| Mrs. John Walls | killed by run away ox team, mashed head. |
| Martin Archer | shot by Sam Marley. |
| Ben Padgett | killed by train. |
| John Padgett | kicked by horse. |
| Richard Langley | fell of Wester trestle. |
| Son of Joseph Lindley | killed by horse. |
| Son of Thomas Shelton | killed by horse. |
| Lem. J. Pickens | thrown from a horse. |
| Son of Wm. Lagle | accidentally shot himself. |
| Son of Exum Hall | scalded. |
| Oph Minton | fell from building. |
| Mattie Farlow | drowned. |
| Henry Thompson | drowned. |
| Lewis Moulder | killed by gun. |
| John Tolbert | killed by bursting cannon at West Baden (The peice that struck him is now in the REPUBLICAN office, used as a paper weight.) |
| John and Frank Millis | killed by saw log rolling over them. |
| Wm. Harrison | killed by train. |
| John Cowherd | thrown from horse against a tree. |
| Benjamin Vancleave | struck by log at house raising. |
| John Wolfe | froze to death. |
| Dorcus Gowan (colored) | froze to death. |
| Brakeman | killed at Lancaster, run over by cars. |
| Azor Charles | killed by Indians in early days. |
| Samuel King | killed by cars between Seymour and Indianapolis. |