56 yrs
Married Caroline Blank 1867 Peoria
Killed in Explosion at Woolners Distillery
1881 Peoria City Dirctory lists Wiegand as an engineer at Woolner Brothers Distilling Co
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York Times, July 31, 1881, page 2
Huge Fire in downtown ChillicotheNew
A Still-Tub Explodes
One Man Killed and Thirteen Injured—Most of the Injured Likely to Die
PEORIA, Ill.—July 30—At 6 o'clock this evening a terrible explosion occurred at Woolner's Distillery in Lower Peoria. Max Woolner, son of Abrahm Woolner, was instantly killed, and 13 others were scalded and bruised. The following are the names of the wounded: Ignatius Woolner, son of the proprietor, badly burned, and will probably die before morning; John Kirkland, Henry Williams, William Rice and two sons, Henry Goetz, Charles Hoffner, August Stetter, Tom Lawless, Sinclair, of York, Freeman, Henry Cashing, William Voehl and two sons, and August Riefner, all of whom are badly burned, and some will, no doubt, die before morning.
The distillery was burned on June 6, and the proprietors were engaged in trying to save a tub of beer that had been saved from the fire. Through some defect in the machinery or in the pipes the still-tub exploded with fearful results. It is believed that of the 13 wounded most are hurt fatally.
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1880 Census
Name Age
Viegand Fahl 45
Caroline Fahl 35
Fritz Fahl 10
Menaul Fahl 9
William Fahl 6
Pauline Fahl 5
Married Caroline Blank 1867 Peoria
Killed in Explosion at Woolners Distillery
1881 Peoria City Dirctory lists Wiegand as an engineer at Woolner Brothers Distilling Co
***********
York Times, July 31, 1881, page 2
Huge Fire in downtown ChillicotheNew
A Still-Tub Explodes
One Man Killed and Thirteen Injured—Most of the Injured Likely to Die
PEORIA, Ill.—July 30—At 6 o'clock this evening a terrible explosion occurred at Woolner's Distillery in Lower Peoria. Max Woolner, son of Abrahm Woolner, was instantly killed, and 13 others were scalded and bruised. The following are the names of the wounded: Ignatius Woolner, son of the proprietor, badly burned, and will probably die before morning; John Kirkland, Henry Williams, William Rice and two sons, Henry Goetz, Charles Hoffner, August Stetter, Tom Lawless, Sinclair, of York, Freeman, Henry Cashing, William Voehl and two sons, and August Riefner, all of whom are badly burned, and some will, no doubt, die before morning.
The distillery was burned on June 6, and the proprietors were engaged in trying to save a tub of beer that had been saved from the fire. Through some defect in the machinery or in the pipes the still-tub exploded with fearful results. It is believed that of the 13 wounded most are hurt fatally.
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1880 Census
Name Age
Viegand Fahl 45
Caroline Fahl 35
Fritz Fahl 10
Menaul Fahl 9
William Fahl 6
Pauline Fahl 5
56 yrs
Married Caroline Blank 1867 Peoria
Killed in Explosion at Woolners Distillery
1881 Peoria City Dirctory lists Wiegand as an engineer at Woolner Brothers Distilling Co
***********
York Times, July 31, 1881, page 2
Huge Fire in downtown ChillicotheNew
A Still-Tub Explodes
One Man Killed and Thirteen Injured—Most of the Injured Likely to Die
PEORIA, Ill.—July 30—At 6 o'clock this evening a terrible explosion occurred at Woolner's Distillery in Lower Peoria. Max Woolner, son of Abrahm Woolner, was instantly killed, and 13 others were scalded and bruised. The following are the names of the wounded: Ignatius Woolner, son of the proprietor, badly burned, and will probably die before morning; John Kirkland, Henry Williams, William Rice and two sons, Henry Goetz, Charles Hoffner, August Stetter, Tom Lawless, Sinclair, of York, Freeman, Henry Cashing, William Voehl and two sons, and August Riefner, all of whom are badly burned, and some will, no doubt, die before morning.
The distillery was burned on June 6, and the proprietors were engaged in trying to save a tub of beer that had been saved from the fire. Through some defect in the machinery or in the pipes the still-tub exploded with fearful results. It is believed that of the 13 wounded most are hurt fatally.
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1880 Census
Name Age
Viegand Fahl 45
Caroline Fahl 35
Fritz Fahl 10
Menaul Fahl 9
William Fahl 6
Pauline Fahl 5
Married Caroline Blank 1867 Peoria
Killed in Explosion at Woolners Distillery
1881 Peoria City Dirctory lists Wiegand as an engineer at Woolner Brothers Distilling Co
***********
York Times, July 31, 1881, page 2
Huge Fire in downtown ChillicotheNew
A Still-Tub Explodes
One Man Killed and Thirteen Injured—Most of the Injured Likely to Die
PEORIA, Ill.—July 30—At 6 o'clock this evening a terrible explosion occurred at Woolner's Distillery in Lower Peoria. Max Woolner, son of Abrahm Woolner, was instantly killed, and 13 others were scalded and bruised. The following are the names of the wounded: Ignatius Woolner, son of the proprietor, badly burned, and will probably die before morning; John Kirkland, Henry Williams, William Rice and two sons, Henry Goetz, Charles Hoffner, August Stetter, Tom Lawless, Sinclair, of York, Freeman, Henry Cashing, William Voehl and two sons, and August Riefner, all of whom are badly burned, and some will, no doubt, die before morning.
The distillery was burned on June 6, and the proprietors were engaged in trying to save a tub of beer that had been saved from the fire. Through some defect in the machinery or in the pipes the still-tub exploded with fearful results. It is believed that of the 13 wounded most are hurt fatally.
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1880 Census
Name Age
Viegand Fahl 45
Caroline Fahl 35
Fritz Fahl 10
Menaul Fahl 9
William Fahl 6
Pauline Fahl 5
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