Charles W. Worthen while at work in the Nolte Bros. logging camp near Lawrence met almost instant death today at about 1:30. Mr. Worthen was struck by a link of a chain that was fastened to the end of a flying cable, which chain became loosened from a stump around which it was fastened and encircled around another stump behind which he was standing, striking him just below the heart and causing almost instantaneous death. Mr. Worthen had taken the place of the man who usually attended to this work and was standing in the same place this man always stood. It was simply an accident that was no ones fault.
Charles Worthen was married January 26, 1893, and leaves a wife and four sons in sorrow. He was one of a family of seven sons and three sisters. Four of his brothers and one sister are living in Whatcom county. The seven brothers all measure over six feet in height. He was born in West Charleston, Vermont, where his father and mother still reside, 41 years ago. He death occurred within three days of the seventeenth anniversary of the drowning of a brother. Mr. Worthen has been a prominent contractor in Whatcom county for a number of years and his home was at Lynden. He was a candidate for the nomination of county commissioner before the republican county convention last fall.
(From The Weekly Blade, June 26 and July 3, 1901)
