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Looks like a bar fight to me. It's rare, but occasionally they end up with somebody dying. Did it happen in your tavern?
I just noticed yet another problem - there's no power connection between the drive train on the upper level and the pumps.
Axles only transmit power in their main direction, not to the sides. That means a vertical axle will accept and provide power only to tiles directly above and below. You have one positioned horizontally adjacent to an incoming horizontal axle, which transmits no power. And it appears to stand on a solid floor, so there's no power transmission to the lower floor possible anyway. To connect power from a horizontal axle on the level above to the level below, you need a gear assembly, and the floor under it must be channelled away to actually transmit power. If there's proper machinery on the level below, the connecting gear assembly can (and in fact must) be built on "empty space" - it will be supported by the machine component on the level below, e.g. a pump, vertical axle or other gear assembly.
You can check if your machinery is connected properly by checking the "Total power needed" display. If you look at a complete block of machinery that should all be powered by one source and get two different power readouts like here, there's no transmission between the two parts. And if "Total power" is zero, it means that no power at all is incoming. Check power readouts for your windmills, to see if they generate power at all - chances are you have three independent readouts, one for each mill, with twenty or forty 'total power' and zero 'total power needed'; if the windmills show zero 'total power', you're in even more trouble - either the central tile of the windmill is under a ceiling (on a tile marked "inside" - channel away floor above the _central tile_ or remove constructions present above it) or you ended up in a biome without wind and will not get any use out of windmills in this fort.
By far most forts have at least twenty potential windpower per mill, though.
Well they did prepare it for you at least.
Yeah, used to be like you. "Don't draft the mothers" and "Make sure that mood gets fulfilled!" and "He's tantruming, better make him happier and not order him killed" or "Leave the gate open! The woodcutter is still running away from the ambush!" Then I started throwing children to their deaths in an ornate glass display case in the middle of the dining hall. My dwarves attained "has become used to tragedy" and I along with them.
