THE OSHKOSH DAILY NORTHWESTERN (OSHKOSH, WI) TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1886, PAGE 4, COLUMN 2:
THE TRAGIC DEATH OF WM. ZINN
FORMERLY OF OSHKOSH
A dispatch was received this morning by Mrs. C. Heiss conveying the sad news that Wm. Zinn, her brother, was drowned Monday at Plattsmouth by falling into a well. No particulars as to how or under what circumstances the dreadful accident happened accompanied the message and today no further information concerning the sudden and tragic death was obtainable. The deceased was a young man twenty-eight years old and a son of Henry Zinn, the baker. Up to the past five or six years he resided in this city, leaving here to go west and engage in business. He was a butcher by trade and it is presumed that he followed that trade up to the time of death. His father, Henry Zinn, and sister, Mrs. C. Heiss, both reside here at present. Another brother is a resident of Marinette and was in this city during the latter part of April when he addressed a large meeting of workingmen and aided in the establishment of two new assemblies of the Knights of Labor. It is probable that the remains may be brought to this city for burial. Plattsmouth is a Nebraska city.
THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN (OSHKOSH, WI) SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1886, PAGE 1:
Further particulars regarding the drowning of Henry (sic) Zinn of this city at Plattsmouth, Neb., have been obtained from the papers of that city as follows: "At the slaughter-house of the butcher for whom Zinn worked, was a well 77 feet deep, which he proposed to explore to settle a bet of a box of cigars on the amount of water in the well. The descent was to be accomplished with a well digger's apparatus and the young man stepped into the bucket, grasped the rope above it, and with Mr. Gehrmann at the crank the descent began. When he had gone down from 25 to 40 feet, Mr. Gehrmann says, the young man cried out for him to stop, and at the same instant the old gentleman says he thought he heard something dropping in the well. Considerably frightened, he made an effort to reverse the crank, but it split squarely at its fastening and the rope on the windlass began to unreel with lighting rapidity. Aid was procured, and after an hour the body was recovered, when deep gashes were found in the head from hitting the stones, any one of which were sufficient to have caused death. After the inquest certain persons talked foul play, but it is claimed there was nothing to warrant suspicion. The funeral of young Zinn took place at Plattsmouth at 2 p.m. on the 27th, from Boeck's undertaking rooms, where Rev. John Frank performed a short service in German. There was a large attendance, and the remains were deposited in Oak Hill."
THE TRAGIC DEATH OF WM. ZINN
FORMERLY OF OSHKOSH
A dispatch was received this morning by Mrs. C. Heiss conveying the sad news that Wm. Zinn, her brother, was drowned Monday at Plattsmouth by falling into a well. No particulars as to how or under what circumstances the dreadful accident happened accompanied the message and today no further information concerning the sudden and tragic death was obtainable. The deceased was a young man twenty-eight years old and a son of Henry Zinn, the baker. Up to the past five or six years he resided in this city, leaving here to go west and engage in business. He was a butcher by trade and it is presumed that he followed that trade up to the time of death. His father, Henry Zinn, and sister, Mrs. C. Heiss, both reside here at present. Another brother is a resident of Marinette and was in this city during the latter part of April when he addressed a large meeting of workingmen and aided in the establishment of two new assemblies of the Knights of Labor. It is probable that the remains may be brought to this city for burial. Plattsmouth is a Nebraska city.
THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN (OSHKOSH, WI) SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1886, PAGE 1:
Further particulars regarding the drowning of Henry (sic) Zinn of this city at Plattsmouth, Neb., have been obtained from the papers of that city as follows: "At the slaughter-house of the butcher for whom Zinn worked, was a well 77 feet deep, which he proposed to explore to settle a bet of a box of cigars on the amount of water in the well. The descent was to be accomplished with a well digger's apparatus and the young man stepped into the bucket, grasped the rope above it, and with Mr. Gehrmann at the crank the descent began. When he had gone down from 25 to 40 feet, Mr. Gehrmann says, the young man cried out for him to stop, and at the same instant the old gentleman says he thought he heard something dropping in the well. Considerably frightened, he made an effort to reverse the crank, but it split squarely at its fastening and the rope on the windlass began to unreel with lighting rapidity. Aid was procured, and after an hour the body was recovered, when deep gashes were found in the head from hitting the stones, any one of which were sufficient to have caused death. After the inquest certain persons talked foul play, but it is claimed there was nothing to warrant suspicion. The funeral of young Zinn took place at Plattsmouth at 2 p.m. on the 27th, from Boeck's undertaking rooms, where Rev. John Frank performed a short service in German. There was a large attendance, and the remains were deposited in Oak Hill."
THE OSHKOSH DAILY NORTHWESTERN (OSHKOSH, WI) TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1886, PAGE 4, COLUMN 2:
THE TRAGIC DEATH OF WM. ZINN
FORMERLY OF OSHKOSH
A dispatch was received this morning by Mrs. C. Heiss conveying the sad news that Wm. Zinn, her brother, was drowned Monday at Plattsmouth by falling into a well. No particulars as to how or under what circumstances the dreadful accident happened accompanied the message and today no further information concerning the sudden and tragic death was obtainable. The deceased was a young man twenty-eight years old and a son of Henry Zinn, the baker. Up to the past five or six years he resided in this city, leaving here to go west and engage in business. He was a butcher by trade and it is presumed that he followed that trade up to the time of death. His father, Henry Zinn, and sister, Mrs. C. Heiss, both reside here at present. Another brother is a resident of Marinette and was in this city during the latter part of April when he addressed a large meeting of workingmen and aided in the establishment of two new assemblies of the Knights of Labor. It is probable that the remains may be brought to this city for burial. Plattsmouth is a Nebraska city.
THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN (OSHKOSH, WI) SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1886, PAGE 1:
Further particulars regarding the drowning of Henry (sic) Zinn of this city at Plattsmouth, Neb., have been obtained from the papers of that city as follows: "At the slaughter-house of the butcher for whom Zinn worked, was a well 77 feet deep, which he proposed to explore to settle a bet of a box of cigars on the amount of water in the well. The descent was to be accomplished with a well digger's apparatus and the young man stepped into the bucket, grasped the rope above it, and with Mr. Gehrmann at the crank the descent began. When he had gone down from 25 to 40 feet, Mr. Gehrmann says, the young man cried out for him to stop, and at the same instant the old gentleman says he thought he heard something dropping in the well. Considerably frightened, he made an effort to reverse the crank, but it split squarely at its fastening and the rope on the windlass began to unreel with lighting rapidity. Aid was procured, and after an hour the body was recovered, when deep gashes were found in the head from hitting the stones, any one of which were sufficient to have caused death. After the inquest certain persons talked foul play, but it is claimed there was nothing to warrant suspicion. The funeral of young Zinn took place at Plattsmouth at 2 p.m. on the 27th, from Boeck's undertaking rooms, where Rev. John Frank performed a short service in German. There was a large attendance, and the remains were deposited in Oak Hill."
THE TRAGIC DEATH OF WM. ZINN
FORMERLY OF OSHKOSH
A dispatch was received this morning by Mrs. C. Heiss conveying the sad news that Wm. Zinn, her brother, was drowned Monday at Plattsmouth by falling into a well. No particulars as to how or under what circumstances the dreadful accident happened accompanied the message and today no further information concerning the sudden and tragic death was obtainable. The deceased was a young man twenty-eight years old and a son of Henry Zinn, the baker. Up to the past five or six years he resided in this city, leaving here to go west and engage in business. He was a butcher by trade and it is presumed that he followed that trade up to the time of death. His father, Henry Zinn, and sister, Mrs. C. Heiss, both reside here at present. Another brother is a resident of Marinette and was in this city during the latter part of April when he addressed a large meeting of workingmen and aided in the establishment of two new assemblies of the Knights of Labor. It is probable that the remains may be brought to this city for burial. Plattsmouth is a Nebraska city.
THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN (OSHKOSH, WI) SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1886, PAGE 1:
Further particulars regarding the drowning of Henry (sic) Zinn of this city at Plattsmouth, Neb., have been obtained from the papers of that city as follows: "At the slaughter-house of the butcher for whom Zinn worked, was a well 77 feet deep, which he proposed to explore to settle a bet of a box of cigars on the amount of water in the well. The descent was to be accomplished with a well digger's apparatus and the young man stepped into the bucket, grasped the rope above it, and with Mr. Gehrmann at the crank the descent began. When he had gone down from 25 to 40 feet, Mr. Gehrmann says, the young man cried out for him to stop, and at the same instant the old gentleman says he thought he heard something dropping in the well. Considerably frightened, he made an effort to reverse the crank, but it split squarely at its fastening and the rope on the windlass began to unreel with lighting rapidity. Aid was procured, and after an hour the body was recovered, when deep gashes were found in the head from hitting the stones, any one of which were sufficient to have caused death. After the inquest certain persons talked foul play, but it is claimed there was nothing to warrant suspicion. The funeral of young Zinn took place at Plattsmouth at 2 p.m. on the 27th, from Boeck's undertaking rooms, where Rev. John Frank performed a short service in German. There was a large attendance, and the remains were deposited in Oak Hill."
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