From the Washington Democrat, Washington, Indiana, on Thursday, October 24, 1912:

CRUSHED TO DEATH UNDER HEAVY WAGON

  James Edmondson, a well known local character, was killed this afternoon about 1:30 o'clock on Ceneter street near the intersection of that street with East Eleventh street, when he fell from a load of crushed rock, the wheels of the wagon crushing his right side.
  So far as is known there was no eye witness to the accident and it is not known how Edmondson happened to fall from his seat on the wagon. He was working for Albert Musselman, the gravel road contractor.
  The wheels of the wagon, which was loaded with a yard and a half of crushed rock, did not pass over his body but pinched it between the wheel and the ground, pushing the body along over the surface. His nose was badly disfigured through scraping over the ground and the ribs on his right side were crushed and broken. Death was not instantaneous, Edmondson living for almost a half an hour after the accident occurred. He died however before Doctor Donaldson, who was called, could arrive on the scene. Gill's ambulance was called and the body was removed to the Gill morgue where it will be prepared for burial.
  Edmondson is a well known character about the city. He has been in poor circumstances all his life. He was living in the old property at the corner of West Second and Lemon streets when it was condemned and his family, consisting of a wife and two children were taken to the poor farm when ordered out of these premises.
  Coroner U. H. Holder is holding an inquest.