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The phrase horrible death has appeared seven hundred and five times in the pages of the New York Times since 1851

The phrase shows up in 101 headlines

All but seven of them appearing before 1900

One can safely assume that this mirrors a general waning of the popularity of the phrase

But it also seems to point to a similarly faded inclination

Among the various editors of the times to write articles that highlight deaths

What follows is in the count of five of those deaths

On December 9, 1888

Michael Liske was working an overnight shift in a coal-breaking plant in Wilkesbury, Pennsylvania

The immense steel cogs that they used to break down the coal got jam

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