WAS INSTANTLY KILLED

Horrible Fate of Charles Hampton at the Trinity Oil Mills.

Charles Hampton, a young farmer from Denton county, fell into the elevator of the Trinity oil mills in South Dallas yesterday afternoon at 6 o'clock and was instantly ground to pieces.

The body was not discovered for some minutes after.

To a News reporter the officials of the mill made the following statement:

"Hampton came to the mill with two loads of seed to sell and we bought them. He walked out of the office and was never seen again till his horribly mangled body was found in the elevator. He suppose that the dead man must have walked around the building and fallen into the elevator by accident. We heard no cries ad therefore death must have been almost instantaneous. One leg was torn completely from the trunk and carried to the top of the building while the body was ground and mashed into a pulpy mass of flesh and clothing. As soon as the body was discovered, the machinery  was stopped and the remains gathered up. The elevator is on the side of the mill next to the railroad on the opposite side from the wagon entrance and we exert every means in our power to keep people away from there. The deceased has a mother-in-law, Mrs. Kearns, who lives at Carrollton, Dallas county, and relatives in Denton County.

Dallas Morning News - November 1, 1893
Submitted by Barbara Judkins

A HORRIBLE DEATH

The Fate of a Farmer at the Oil Mills in South Dallas
Special to Gazette

Dallas, Texas, Nov. 1. Charles Hampton, a Denton county farmer, met a horrible death last night shortly before six o'clock by being crushed in an elevator at the Trinity oil mills in South Dallas. The deceased came to the mill during the afternoon and old two loads of cotton seed. After receiving his pay for the seed he walked out of the office and was not again seen alive. Shortly afterwards his body was found a mangled and crushed mass in the elevator. The machinery was stopped and the remains picked up. He had slipped, as he picked his way through the machinery, and his body was fairly chopped into shreds. It was a most horrible death. Relatives of deceased came to the city today from Farmers Branch and took charge of the remains. Interment will take place at Farmers Branch tomorrow.  He was unmarried.

The Gazette, Ft. Worth, Texas, Thursday, November 2, 1892
Submitted by Barbara Judkins

C. Hampton
BORN Oct. 22, 1857
DIED Oct. 31, 1893

At Rest
Gone but not forgotten

Keenan Cemetery, Farmers Branch, Dallas County, Texas