William Melow was killed by the caving in of an embankment of clay on Twentieth street hill near Twelfth avenue at 3:30 this afternoon.
Martin Theus and John Volk, both fellow laborers, were seriously, if not fatally, injured.
The city ambulance was summoned and hustled to the scene of the disaster, Dr. C. Bernhardi accompanying it. The injured men were conveyed to their homes in the lower end of the city.
Undertaker Knox took the body of Melow in charge, taking it to his rooms, where the inquest is in progress.
The men were engaged in hauling clay from the west side of Twentieth street for Contractor William Nevins, to be used in filling in depressions in the storm drain on Twenty-fourth street. Two wagons were being loaded, and the men were standing between them and the bluff when a great mass of dirt slid down, burying all three men. Theus and Volk, were extricated, but Melow was buried for 15 minutes, and just as he was gotten out, there was another landslide covering him a second time. When he was dug out he expired in a few minutes.
Melow who was a teamster in the employ of William Hubers, was 20 years of age and single. He lived with his widowed mother, Mrs. Wilhelmina Melow, 825 Sixth street. His father, Carl Melow, was killed in the alley near Market Square some years ago.
(The Rock Island Argus - Feb. 17, 1897)
Martin Theus and John Volk, both fellow laborers, were seriously, if not fatally, injured.
The city ambulance was summoned and hustled to the scene of the disaster, Dr. C. Bernhardi accompanying it. The injured men were conveyed to their homes in the lower end of the city.
Undertaker Knox took the body of Melow in charge, taking it to his rooms, where the inquest is in progress.
The men were engaged in hauling clay from the west side of Twentieth street for Contractor William Nevins, to be used in filling in depressions in the storm drain on Twenty-fourth street. Two wagons were being loaded, and the men were standing between them and the bluff when a great mass of dirt slid down, burying all three men. Theus and Volk, were extricated, but Melow was buried for 15 minutes, and just as he was gotten out, there was another landslide covering him a second time. When he was dug out he expired in a few minutes.
Melow who was a teamster in the employ of William Hubers, was 20 years of age and single. He lived with his widowed mother, Mrs. Wilhelmina Melow, 825 Sixth street. His father, Carl Melow, was killed in the alley near Market Square some years ago.
(The Rock Island Argus - Feb. 17, 1897)
William Melow was killed by the caving in of an embankment of clay on Twentieth street hill near Twelfth avenue at 3:30 this afternoon.
Martin Theus and John Volk, both fellow laborers, were seriously, if not fatally, injured.
The city ambulance was summoned and hustled to the scene of the disaster, Dr. C. Bernhardi accompanying it. The injured men were conveyed to their homes in the lower end of the city.
Undertaker Knox took the body of Melow in charge, taking it to his rooms, where the inquest is in progress.
The men were engaged in hauling clay from the west side of Twentieth street for Contractor William Nevins, to be used in filling in depressions in the storm drain on Twenty-fourth street. Two wagons were being loaded, and the men were standing between them and the bluff when a great mass of dirt slid down, burying all three men. Theus and Volk, were extricated, but Melow was buried for 15 minutes, and just as he was gotten out, there was another landslide covering him a second time. When he was dug out he expired in a few minutes.
Melow who was a teamster in the employ of William Hubers, was 20 years of age and single. He lived with his widowed mother, Mrs. Wilhelmina Melow, 825 Sixth street. His father, Carl Melow, was killed in the alley near Market Square some years ago.
(The Rock Island Argus - Feb. 17, 1897)
Martin Theus and John Volk, both fellow laborers, were seriously, if not fatally, injured.
The city ambulance was summoned and hustled to the scene of the disaster, Dr. C. Bernhardi accompanying it. The injured men were conveyed to their homes in the lower end of the city.
Undertaker Knox took the body of Melow in charge, taking it to his rooms, where the inquest is in progress.
The men were engaged in hauling clay from the west side of Twentieth street for Contractor William Nevins, to be used in filling in depressions in the storm drain on Twenty-fourth street. Two wagons were being loaded, and the men were standing between them and the bluff when a great mass of dirt slid down, burying all three men. Theus and Volk, were extricated, but Melow was buried for 15 minutes, and just as he was gotten out, there was another landslide covering him a second time. When he was dug out he expired in a few minutes.
Melow who was a teamster in the employ of William Hubers, was 20 years of age and single. He lived with his widowed mother, Mrs. Wilhelmina Melow, 825 Sixth street. His father, Carl Melow, was killed in the alley near Market Square some years ago.
(The Rock Island Argus - Feb. 17, 1897)
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