Peter Nielson Dead
Kicked by Horses
Peter Nielson, 46, died Saturday at the Horton hospital of injuries received when he attempted to halt a young team in a runaway at a farm near Robinson. Nielson, who lived in Hiawatha community until he moved to Robinson vicinity not long ago, got in front of his team to prevent the horses running away, was kicked-mauled so severly that hospital treatment failed to save him. For years he was a member of Battery E. national guard unit in Hiawatha. Surviving are his widow, a sister, Mrs. Lewis Hawkins, of Hiawatha, brother, Maurice Nielson, who is employed at the post office in Hiawatha. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 Sunday afternoon at the Zion Lutheran church, Rev. K. C. Grundahl in charge, burial in Hiawatha cemetery.
—The Hiawatha Daily World (Hiawatha, KS)
Sat Apr 15, 1939, p.1.
Kicked by Horses
Peter Nielson, 46, died Saturday at the Horton hospital of injuries received when he attempted to halt a young team in a runaway at a farm near Robinson. Nielson, who lived in Hiawatha community until he moved to Robinson vicinity not long ago, got in front of his team to prevent the horses running away, was kicked-mauled so severly that hospital treatment failed to save him. For years he was a member of Battery E. national guard unit in Hiawatha. Surviving are his widow, a sister, Mrs. Lewis Hawkins, of Hiawatha, brother, Maurice Nielson, who is employed at the post office in Hiawatha. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 Sunday afternoon at the Zion Lutheran church, Rev. K. C. Grundahl in charge, burial in Hiawatha cemetery.
—The Hiawatha Daily World (Hiawatha, KS)
Sat Apr 15, 1939, p.1.
Peter Nielson Dead
Kicked by Horses
Peter Nielson, 46, died Saturday at the Horton hospital of injuries received when he attempted to halt a young team in a runaway at a farm near Robinson. Nielson, who lived in Hiawatha community until he moved to Robinson vicinity not long ago, got in front of his team to prevent the horses running away, was kicked-mauled so severly that hospital treatment failed to save him. For years he was a member of Battery E. national guard unit in Hiawatha. Surviving are his widow, a sister, Mrs. Lewis Hawkins, of Hiawatha, brother, Maurice Nielson, who is employed at the post office in Hiawatha. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 Sunday afternoon at the Zion Lutheran church, Rev. K. C. Grundahl in charge, burial in Hiawatha cemetery.
—The Hiawatha Daily World (Hiawatha, KS)
Sat Apr 15, 1939, p.1.
Kicked by Horses
Peter Nielson, 46, died Saturday at the Horton hospital of injuries received when he attempted to halt a young team in a runaway at a farm near Robinson. Nielson, who lived in Hiawatha community until he moved to Robinson vicinity not long ago, got in front of his team to prevent the horses running away, was kicked-mauled so severly that hospital treatment failed to save him. For years he was a member of Battery E. national guard unit in Hiawatha. Surviving are his widow, a sister, Mrs. Lewis Hawkins, of Hiawatha, brother, Maurice Nielson, who is employed at the post office in Hiawatha. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 Sunday afternoon at the Zion Lutheran church, Rev. K. C. Grundahl in charge, burial in Hiawatha cemetery.
—The Hiawatha Daily World (Hiawatha, KS)
Sat Apr 15, 1939, p.1.
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