Really? Weird Ways to Die.

In 1886 in Michigan there were 350 deaths listed as “casualty.” The listed causes were:

Accidental, unclassified, 125

Accidentally poisoned, 8

Accidental shooting, 20

Boiler explosion, 6

Chewing black jack gum, 1

Crushed under [train]cars, 1

Explosion of gas, 2

Explosion of powder, 1

Falling, unspecified, 28

Fall from toboggan slide, 1

Fall on icy door step, 1

Fall from scaffold, 9

Falling off hay stack, 1

Falling down stairs, 4

Falling off stone, 2

Found in a well, 2

Fracture of neck, 1

Gored by a bull, 3

Injury to spine, 1

Kicked by a horse, 21

Killed in car shop, 1

Killed by dynamite, 1

Killed on elevator, 1

Killed by explosion, 2

Killed by a gate, 1

Killed by machinery, 5

Killed in a mill, 5

Killed in a mine, 34

Killed by a mule, 1

Killed with pitchfork, 1

Killed in ship yard, 2

Killed on tug, 1

Killed in woods, 21

Runaway [horse] accident, 27

Strained by heavy lifting, 1

Struck on head with stump pry, 1

Swallowed something, 1

Thrown from binder, 1

Thrown from a horse, 4

Timber fell on him, 1

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This information comes from the Twentieth Annual Report Relating to the Registry and Return of Births, Marriages and Deaths in Michigan for the Year 1886. 1888. Thorp & Godfrey, State Printers and Binders. Lansing.