Clackamas-Multnomah County OR Archives Obituaries.....Robinson, T. October 24, 1904
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Monring Oregonian October 25,1904
Oregon City,Or.,Oct.24-(Special)- T.Robinson,aged 56 years, a loborer employed 
in digging a ditch about one mile below this city was buried under six tons of 
dirt this afternoon and instantly killed. He was tilling the bottom of a ditch 
14 feet deep,which is being constructed from the south end of Dr.Nichol's 
hopyard to the Clackamas River, when the sane on the bottom of the ditch 
loosened and caught both feet. He wrenched one foot loose, and 
E.bennettmanother workman,seeing his plight,sprang ot his aid,when, without 
warning,the top of the bank caed in,letting about 10 cubic yards of dirt on 
top of Robinson,burying him out of sight, and narrowly escaping Bennett.
Workmen started at once to dig out the unfortunate man and succeeded in 
getting a rope about his body, when another lot of dirt caved in, and nearly 
two hours had elapsed when at last they brought him to the surface. He was a 
man of some property,owning a homestead, and had money in the bank.

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