Loveland Reporter Herald, Monday, August 29, 1955
Loveland, Colorado
Carl Walter
Carl Walter, 46, a Union Pacific railroad foreman, was electrocuted Saturday night while talking from Snyder, northeast of Brush, with railroad headquarters in Denver on the telephone.
Bert Frezlers, deputy coroner of Morgan county at Brush, said the lethal charge of electricity coursed through Walter’s body when lightning hit the telephone line about 8 p.m. at the height of a severe electrical storm.
Walter’s family rushed him to the hospital in Brush, but all efforts to revive him failed.
He was born in Loveland and attended school there. He had worked for the railroad about 25 years.
He is survived by his wife, Esther, of Snyder; two sons, Edward and Larry, of Snyder; his mother, Mrs. Jacob Walter, of Loveland; and two brothers, Jacob, Jr., and Reuben, both of Loveland;
Services will be held tomorrow at 1 p.m. at Brush, with interment here at Loveland Burial park scheduled for 4 p.m.
Loveland, Colorado
Carl Walter
Carl Walter, 46, a Union Pacific railroad foreman, was electrocuted Saturday night while talking from Snyder, northeast of Brush, with railroad headquarters in Denver on the telephone.
Bert Frezlers, deputy coroner of Morgan county at Brush, said the lethal charge of electricity coursed through Walter’s body when lightning hit the telephone line about 8 p.m. at the height of a severe electrical storm.
Walter’s family rushed him to the hospital in Brush, but all efforts to revive him failed.
He was born in Loveland and attended school there. He had worked for the railroad about 25 years.
He is survived by his wife, Esther, of Snyder; two sons, Edward and Larry, of Snyder; his mother, Mrs. Jacob Walter, of Loveland; and two brothers, Jacob, Jr., and Reuben, both of Loveland;
Services will be held tomorrow at 1 p.m. at Brush, with interment here at Loveland Burial park scheduled for 4 p.m.
Loveland Reporter Herald, Monday, August 29, 1955
Loveland, Colorado
Carl Walter
Carl Walter, 46, a Union Pacific railroad foreman, was electrocuted Saturday night while talking from Snyder, northeast of Brush, with railroad headquarters in Denver on the telephone.
Bert Frezlers, deputy coroner of Morgan county at Brush, said the lethal charge of electricity coursed through Walter’s body when lightning hit the telephone line about 8 p.m. at the height of a severe electrical storm.
Walter’s family rushed him to the hospital in Brush, but all efforts to revive him failed.
He was born in Loveland and attended school there. He had worked for the railroad about 25 years.
He is survived by his wife, Esther, of Snyder; two sons, Edward and Larry, of Snyder; his mother, Mrs. Jacob Walter, of Loveland; and two brothers, Jacob, Jr., and Reuben, both of Loveland;
Services will be held tomorrow at 1 p.m. at Brush, with interment here at Loveland Burial park scheduled for 4 p.m.
Loveland, Colorado
Carl Walter
Carl Walter, 46, a Union Pacific railroad foreman, was electrocuted Saturday night while talking from Snyder, northeast of Brush, with railroad headquarters in Denver on the telephone.
Bert Frezlers, deputy coroner of Morgan county at Brush, said the lethal charge of electricity coursed through Walter’s body when lightning hit the telephone line about 8 p.m. at the height of a severe electrical storm.
Walter’s family rushed him to the hospital in Brush, but all efforts to revive him failed.
He was born in Loveland and attended school there. He had worked for the railroad about 25 years.
He is survived by his wife, Esther, of Snyder; two sons, Edward and Larry, of Snyder; his mother, Mrs. Jacob Walter, of Loveland; and two brothers, Jacob, Jr., and Reuben, both of Loveland;
Services will be held tomorrow at 1 p.m. at Brush, with interment here at Loveland Burial park scheduled for 4 p.m.
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