Sheboygan Telegram, Sep 6, 1895
A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.
Little Alice Rosenthal Instantly Killed.
One of the saddest accidents that ever happened in this city occurred at about 1:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, when Alice Rosenthal, the six-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rosenthal of 815 Niagara avenue was instantly killed by the fall of a window. The accident took place when the child's parents were not at home. The little girl attended the kindergarten in the Second ward public school, and when school was out in the afternoon, she went to the home of her uncle, Mr. Fred Rosenthal, near her own home, where she intended to remain until the return of her folks. She went on an errand for one of her aunts at 4:20 o'clock, after which she went to look for her playmate, whom she found obtaining empty pasteboard boxes at a neighboring store. She took some boxes and left for her home and that was the last seen of her alive, for not a great many minutes afterwards she was found by two of her young friends, dead, hanging from a woodshed window in the rear of her home. It is quite evident that the child wanted to put the boxes in the shed, and not knowing that the door was unlocked, started to climb through the window. She obtained three bricks and piled them against the side of the building, upon which she stood to reach the window. She managed to raise the sash and had her head inside, when the window came down on her striking the spinal chord, the attending physician states and causing death instantly. She could not have been hanging there but a few moments when two of her playmates found her, who failing to arouse her, became alarmed and summoned Mr. Rosenthal's hired man who went to the child, who still had one foot on the brick and to his horror, found that she was dead. A physician was summoned, and though the body was still warm, it was of no avail. The child's parents were called immediately, and the terrible news was broken to them as gently as possible. Coroner Goodell empaneled a jury last evening, which met this morning and determined that the deceased had met instant death by the fall of a window upon her neck. The deceased was aged five years and ten months. The funeral will take place from the home at two o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Rev. Wollbrecht of the Lutheran Trinity church will officiate and the burial will be made at Wildwood.
A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.
Little Alice Rosenthal Instantly Killed.
One of the saddest accidents that ever happened in this city occurred at about 1:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, when Alice Rosenthal, the six-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rosenthal of 815 Niagara avenue was instantly killed by the fall of a window. The accident took place when the child's parents were not at home. The little girl attended the kindergarten in the Second ward public school, and when school was out in the afternoon, she went to the home of her uncle, Mr. Fred Rosenthal, near her own home, where she intended to remain until the return of her folks. She went on an errand for one of her aunts at 4:20 o'clock, after which she went to look for her playmate, whom she found obtaining empty pasteboard boxes at a neighboring store. She took some boxes and left for her home and that was the last seen of her alive, for not a great many minutes afterwards she was found by two of her young friends, dead, hanging from a woodshed window in the rear of her home. It is quite evident that the child wanted to put the boxes in the shed, and not knowing that the door was unlocked, started to climb through the window. She obtained three bricks and piled them against the side of the building, upon which she stood to reach the window. She managed to raise the sash and had her head inside, when the window came down on her striking the spinal chord, the attending physician states and causing death instantly. She could not have been hanging there but a few moments when two of her playmates found her, who failing to arouse her, became alarmed and summoned Mr. Rosenthal's hired man who went to the child, who still had one foot on the brick and to his horror, found that she was dead. A physician was summoned, and though the body was still warm, it was of no avail. The child's parents were called immediately, and the terrible news was broken to them as gently as possible. Coroner Goodell empaneled a jury last evening, which met this morning and determined that the deceased had met instant death by the fall of a window upon her neck. The deceased was aged five years and ten months. The funeral will take place from the home at two o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Rev. Wollbrecht of the Lutheran Trinity church will officiate and the burial will be made at Wildwood.
Sheboygan Telegram, Sep 6, 1895
A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.
Little Alice Rosenthal Instantly Killed.
One of the saddest accidents that ever happened in this city occurred at about 1:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, when Alice Rosenthal, the six-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rosenthal of 815 Niagara avenue was instantly killed by the fall of a window. The accident took place when the child's parents were not at home. The little girl attended the kindergarten in the Second ward public school, and when school was out in the afternoon, she went to the home of her uncle, Mr. Fred Rosenthal, near her own home, where she intended to remain until the return of her folks. She went on an errand for one of her aunts at 4:20 o'clock, after which she went to look for her playmate, whom she found obtaining empty pasteboard boxes at a neighboring store. She took some boxes and left for her home and that was the last seen of her alive, for not a great many minutes afterwards she was found by two of her young friends, dead, hanging from a woodshed window in the rear of her home. It is quite evident that the child wanted to put the boxes in the shed, and not knowing that the door was unlocked, started to climb through the window. She obtained three bricks and piled them against the side of the building, upon which she stood to reach the window. She managed to raise the sash and had her head inside, when the window came down on her striking the spinal chord, the attending physician states and causing death instantly. She could not have been hanging there but a few moments when two of her playmates found her, who failing to arouse her, became alarmed and summoned Mr. Rosenthal's hired man who went to the child, who still had one foot on the brick and to his horror, found that she was dead. A physician was summoned, and though the body was still warm, it was of no avail. The child's parents were called immediately, and the terrible news was broken to them as gently as possible. Coroner Goodell empaneled a jury last evening, which met this morning and determined that the deceased had met instant death by the fall of a window upon her neck. The deceased was aged five years and ten months. The funeral will take place from the home at two o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Rev. Wollbrecht of the Lutheran Trinity church will officiate and the burial will be made at Wildwood.
A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.
Little Alice Rosenthal Instantly Killed.
One of the saddest accidents that ever happened in this city occurred at about 1:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, when Alice Rosenthal, the six-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rosenthal of 815 Niagara avenue was instantly killed by the fall of a window. The accident took place when the child's parents were not at home. The little girl attended the kindergarten in the Second ward public school, and when school was out in the afternoon, she went to the home of her uncle, Mr. Fred Rosenthal, near her own home, where she intended to remain until the return of her folks. She went on an errand for one of her aunts at 4:20 o'clock, after which she went to look for her playmate, whom she found obtaining empty pasteboard boxes at a neighboring store. She took some boxes and left for her home and that was the last seen of her alive, for not a great many minutes afterwards she was found by two of her young friends, dead, hanging from a woodshed window in the rear of her home. It is quite evident that the child wanted to put the boxes in the shed, and not knowing that the door was unlocked, started to climb through the window. She obtained three bricks and piled them against the side of the building, upon which she stood to reach the window. She managed to raise the sash and had her head inside, when the window came down on her striking the spinal chord, the attending physician states and causing death instantly. She could not have been hanging there but a few moments when two of her playmates found her, who failing to arouse her, became alarmed and summoned Mr. Rosenthal's hired man who went to the child, who still had one foot on the brick and to his horror, found that she was dead. A physician was summoned, and though the body was still warm, it was of no avail. The child's parents were called immediately, and the terrible news was broken to them as gently as possible. Coroner Goodell empaneled a jury last evening, which met this morning and determined that the deceased had met instant death by the fall of a window upon her neck. The deceased was aged five years and ten months. The funeral will take place from the home at two o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Rev. Wollbrecht of the Lutheran Trinity church will officiate and the burial will be made at Wildwood.
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