1867 - Died trying to rescue cow

Sidney Tompkins, a farmer of Stillwater, New York, discovered that one of his cows had a potato lodged in her throat. Mr. Thompkins undertook to relieve the animal, and thrust his arm partially down her throat. While standing over the head of the animal, the cow pressed his head downward and suddenly elevating it again, caught Mr. T. upon her horns, throwing him several feet into the air. In his descent he struck upon the palings of a fence, one of the pickets which entered his neck, severing one of the arteries, from which he bled to death in a few minutes.