Daniel Goodspeed Meacham
Husband of Emily Bowen, son of Lyman Meacham and Elizabeth Goodspeed
Cattaraugus Republican - September 7, 1876 .
" A dreadful accident. A distressing accident in Meacham Hollow, Town of Mansfield, on Saturday last. Parties were threshing with a steam threshing machine. About noon the belt to the separator ran off the pulley. Steam was partially shut off and the workman attempted to run the belt on again. While they were doing this Daniel Meacham, was mowing away straw overhead, started to come down. He stepped down upon the feed board , and in some way slipped, and one limb went into the cylinder. The limb was drawn in as far as the knee and was ground to pomace. The machine was at once stopped , and efforts were made to extricate the unfortunate man , but the cords and tendons of the limb or so caught in the teeth of the cylinder that the latter had to be uncapped and taken apart to release him. This took nearly half an hour , during which time the sufferer was in the greatest agony. Doctors Smith, of Ellicottville and Pool, of Otto were summoned and the limb was amputated. But the shock was too great , and Mr. Meacham died Saturday afternoon about five o'clock. He was buried Tuesday."
