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Charles Pokorny

25 Dec 1902 – 18 Apr 1923

Birth	25 Dec 1902
Death	18 Apr 1923
Cemetery	Saint Marys Cemetery Sargent , Custer County , Nebraska , USA
Added by	Terry Wilmoth -Jepsen on 02 Jul 2015
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CHARLES POKORNY, JR. MEETS JUNIOR MEETS HORRIBLE DEATH Wednesday forenoon of this week one of the most terrible accidents that has happened hereabouts came to a young man named Charles Pokorny Jr. son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pokorny who reside several miles north east of Burwell. The young man was working for Charles Nekuda who lives one mile north and two miles west of Sargent. Tuesday morning he began discing with a tongueless disc. He was driving a good four horse team made up of three horses seven years of age and one six years. Mr. Nekuda says he cautioned the young man in handling the team although his own boy had worked them right along last summer. Everything went well Tuesday and the young man went to work in good spirits Wednesday morning and soon finished discing the first field he had started on and had started in a field of millet stubble. Along about eleven o'clock a Mr Anderson was coming to Sargent and saw a four horse team hitched to a disc and apparently without a driver, running in Mr. Nekuda's field, and stopped at the Nekuda house to tell the folks there. Mr. Nekuda's fifteen year old son went running out to stop the team and, meeting the horses grabbed hold of one by the bridle but was thrown several feet and lay there as if dead when picked up a few minutes later. Just as the Nekuda boy was running to stop the team, R. A. Moore of this city was driving past the Nekuda farm, taking a fruit tree man and a bundle of trees out to the Peter Zulkoski home, a mile or so west of the Nekuda home. Just before they passed the Nekuda house they saw the running team and then they saw the Nekuda boy try to stop the team and saw him thrown. Just about that time the lines or something must have gotten wrapped around in the wheels of the disc so as to stop the team. Mr. Moore and the fruit tree man stopped their auto and went across to the team. Then it was they saw that a man was caught in the disc. About that time Mr. Nekuda arrived there and one of them raised up on the disc while the other two extricated the young man who was already dead. They put the body into the auto and took it to the Nekuda home and in answer to a call for a physician, Dr. Fenstermacher went. Finding that life was extinct the only thing to do was to call the undertaker and the body was brought to the Spooner Furniture Company's undertaking apartment. As no one was present to see the runaway start, it will never he known just how it happened. Since the young man's right foot was caught between a brace and another part of the disc, it may be possible that he rose up out of the seat as he went to turn around and slipped and this scared the team. It is also not known whether or not death was instantaneous. The disc wheels had cut a gash above one eye clear to the bone. The cheek was cut open on the left side and there was a cut or two on the chest. The funeral is being held this (Friday April 20, 1923) forenoon at the Catholic church and interment is being made in the Catholic cemetery. The .young man was twenty one years old last Christmas. His mother's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kuklis, reside in this city. His mother is a sister of Mrs. Peter Janesofsky, and Jerry, Louie, and Bohumil Kuklis. This is one of the most terrible accidents that has ever occurred near here and the Leader extends it sympathy to the bereaved relatives.

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