Henry J. Bachman - German Methodist Hill Cemetery - Homemade Tombstones on Waymarking.com

Henry Bachman's homemade tombstone, along with the weathered wooden cross caught my eye and I took a few pictures. I didn't realize until getting on FindaGrave.com how tragic his death was after reading his obituary. It reads:

Man Killed, Wife Badly Injured, and House Burned, near Madras

A disasterous explosion of dynamite occurred about 9 o'clock Tuesday morning at the H.J. Bachmann place nine miles west of Madras, whereby Mr. Bachmann was killed, his wife badly injured and their house burned. Mrs. Bachmann will recover from her wounds.

Bachmann was thawing four sticks of explosive in the kitchen stove oven, and poked one of them to see if it was getting soft. Wherupon the four sticks exploded. Bachmann was struck just over the eye by a piece of flying iron, which penetrated the socket about an inch. Another piece struck hiom on the forehead and fractured his skull. There was also a compound fracture of the right leg below the knee. He died within a few hours, death being due to his having breathed fire and smoke from the explosion.

In this frightfully wounded condition Mrs. Bachmann helped her husband from the burning building Dr. Snook of Madras was called at once and later Dr. Edwards of Prineville was summoned to assist.

Wow, what a tragic set of circumstances! I can't believe he was heating up sticks of dynamite in his oven!

Henry's grave can be visited on FindaGrave.com here

Date of Birth: 1873 Date of Death: Jan. 30, 1907 Material: Concrete Web Site: Not listed

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