From the Logansport Daily Reporter on Nov. 3, 1898:
August Asmus was the victim of a sewer cave-in this morning at 8:30 o'clock, while at work in the Plum Street sewer trench. Huge stones rolled upon his breast and he was held fast by the weight of the earth that piled itself upon his feet and about his limbs. Four ribs were broken and his collarbone was fractured. Woll and Barnett's ambulance was summoned and Asmus was conveyed to his home on Brown and Linden Streets where he died at 10:30 this morning.
The accident was due to the presence in the earth of an old post which the workmen had not found and which weakened the trench sides so that about thirty feet of earth was permitted to break loose. Asmus was 47 years old. For some time he worked as a blacksmith with John Myers. He was married, Wilhelmina (Hardt), and has a son, Gus, who is a member of Company M, 160th, Indiana. He was a cousin of Dr. F.A. and John Busjahn and a brother-in-law of Mrs Sophia Hardt.
August Asmus was the victim of a sewer cave-in this morning at 8:30 o'clock, while at work in the Plum Street sewer trench. Huge stones rolled upon his breast and he was held fast by the weight of the earth that piled itself upon his feet and about his limbs. Four ribs were broken and his collarbone was fractured. Woll and Barnett's ambulance was summoned and Asmus was conveyed to his home on Brown and Linden Streets where he died at 10:30 this morning.
The accident was due to the presence in the earth of an old post which the workmen had not found and which weakened the trench sides so that about thirty feet of earth was permitted to break loose. Asmus was 47 years old. For some time he worked as a blacksmith with John Myers. He was married, Wilhelmina (Hardt), and has a son, Gus, who is a member of Company M, 160th, Indiana. He was a cousin of Dr. F.A. and John Busjahn and a brother-in-law of Mrs Sophia Hardt.
From the Logansport Daily Reporter on Nov. 3, 1898:
August Asmus was the victim of a sewer cave-in this morning at 8:30 o'clock, while at work in the Plum Street sewer trench. Huge stones rolled upon his breast and he was held fast by the weight of the earth that piled itself upon his feet and about his limbs. Four ribs were broken and his collarbone was fractured. Woll and Barnett's ambulance was summoned and Asmus was conveyed to his home on Brown and Linden Streets where he died at 10:30 this morning.
The accident was due to the presence in the earth of an old post which the workmen had not found and which weakened the trench sides so that about thirty feet of earth was permitted to break loose. Asmus was 47 years old. For some time he worked as a blacksmith with John Myers. He was married, Wilhelmina (Hardt), and has a son, Gus, who is a member of Company M, 160th, Indiana. He was a cousin of Dr. F.A. and John Busjahn and a brother-in-law of Mrs Sophia Hardt.
August Asmus was the victim of a sewer cave-in this morning at 8:30 o'clock, while at work in the Plum Street sewer trench. Huge stones rolled upon his breast and he was held fast by the weight of the earth that piled itself upon his feet and about his limbs. Four ribs were broken and his collarbone was fractured. Woll and Barnett's ambulance was summoned and Asmus was conveyed to his home on Brown and Linden Streets where he died at 10:30 this morning.
The accident was due to the presence in the earth of an old post which the workmen had not found and which weakened the trench sides so that about thirty feet of earth was permitted to break loose. Asmus was 47 years old. For some time he worked as a blacksmith with John Myers. He was married, Wilhelmina (Hardt), and has a son, Gus, who is a member of Company M, 160th, Indiana. He was a cousin of Dr. F.A. and John Busjahn and a brother-in-law of Mrs Sophia Hardt.
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