Farm Youth is First Highway Fatality in The County for 1938
Ewald (sic) Lenz of Meeme Is Killed When Car Overturns; Girl Is Injured
Manitowoc county’s first highway fatality for 1938 took the life of Ewald August Lenz, 25-year-old town of Meeme youth, shortly after 1 a.m. Sunday at the intersection of Highway 149 and County Trunk M midway between School Hill and Liberty Pole. The car overturned and rolled end over end at least three times.
Norma Karstedt, 17, School Hill, who was riding with Lenz, suffered only minor bruises, shock and exposure, the latter from a walk of over a mile through the snow without shoes or a hat to seek help for her companion. Miss Karstedt tried to secure assistance at two farmhouses near the scene of the crash but her pounding and shouts failed to awaken the residents and she stumbled on up the road toward School Hill.
Almost Instantly Killed.
His chest was badly crushed and he had severe neck injuries.Lenz and Miss Karstedt had been at School Hill playing cards Saturday evening. They left in Lenz’s car at about 1 a.m. and drove south on County Trunk M. Although nobody saw the actual crash, authorities said Lenz must have been driving too fast when he reached the intersection where the highway curves slightly to the east. The car, a coach, evidently went through the arterial stop, veered to the left side of the road and went off into a field. The machine slid along on two wheels for about 40 feet. At that point Lenz evidently made some effort to turn back to the road, for the path of the car through the snow curved back. At that point the machine overturned, tipping end over end, crushing in the front end and badly denting the top as it rolled. According to authorities there was a patch of ice on the west side of the highway but the Lenz car did not hit it.
Miss Karstedt, badly shaken up and frightened by the crash, was incoherent in her description of the accident. It was probable, authorities said, that she may have been unconscious, for a short time after the smashup. She said she believes she spoke to Lenz shortly after the crash and that he answered. She walked to a nearby farmhouse for help, without shoes, which had been knocked from her feet by the crash. Sheriff Norman Berkedal, upon investigating
the accident, a short time later, found the shoes outside of the car. Unable to arouse anyone at the farm, Miss Karstedt went back to the wreck and tried to get Lenz to speak.
Leaves Again For Aid
“He didn’t talk, he didn’t answer me,” she told Dr. Foley later. She left the
wreck again and started toward School Hill, stopping in a fruitless attempt to awaken occupants of another farmhouse down the road. Meanwhile John Ahl, Newton route 1, accompanied by Milton Lutzke, Sheboygan, and Norbert Bonde, Valders route 1, reached the scene of the accident. A moment later Milton Meyer and Norbert Lenz, brother of the dead youth, also drove to the wrecked car. Lenz, with Lutzke and Meyer, took the body of his brother to Dr. Foley’s office in St. Nazianz in Meyer’s car. Ahl picked up Miss Karstedt, over a mile up the road from the scene of the crash. She was taken first to St. Nazianz and then to the Holy Family hospital in Manitowoc for treatment. Sheriff Berkdeal was called a few minutes after the crash was discovered, and went to St. Nazianz with District Attorney John R. Cashman. Dr. Gerald Rau,
County coroner, Two Rivers, also was called. Dr. Rau pronounced the death accidental and said there would be no inquest.
Was Born in Meeme
Ewald August Lenz, son of Mr. and Mrs. August W. Lenz, town of Meeme, was born
October 30, 1912 in the town of Meeme, where his parents own and operate a farm. He attended the district school and upon graduation, was employed for several years on various farms throughout the county. For the past year he had been employed at the Garden Toy Company in Sheboygan. Several days ago Mr. Lenz, father of the accident victim, purchased a farm and had planned that the boy would move to it and run it this coming spring.
Survivors besides the parents, include four brothers, Norbert, Alvis and Clarence, all at home, and Arno of Green Lake.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 from the home and at two o’clock from the Zion Evangelical Lutheran church at Louis Corners. The Rev. Harold O. Grunwald will officiate. Burial will be in the church cemetery.The body was taken to the home today from C. J. Meiselwitz funeral home in Kiel. It will lie at the home from this evening until the time of services Wednesday….
Manitowoc Herald Times, January 3, 1938 P. 2
Ewald (sic) Lenz of Meeme Is Killed When Car Overturns; Girl Is Injured
Manitowoc county’s first highway fatality for 1938 took the life of Ewald August Lenz, 25-year-old town of Meeme youth, shortly after 1 a.m. Sunday at the intersection of Highway 149 and County Trunk M midway between School Hill and Liberty Pole. The car overturned and rolled end over end at least three times.
Norma Karstedt, 17, School Hill, who was riding with Lenz, suffered only minor bruises, shock and exposure, the latter from a walk of over a mile through the snow without shoes or a hat to seek help for her companion. Miss Karstedt tried to secure assistance at two farmhouses near the scene of the crash but her pounding and shouts failed to awaken the residents and she stumbled on up the road toward School Hill.
Almost Instantly Killed.
His chest was badly crushed and he had severe neck injuries.Lenz and Miss Karstedt had been at School Hill playing cards Saturday evening. They left in Lenz’s car at about 1 a.m. and drove south on County Trunk M. Although nobody saw the actual crash, authorities said Lenz must have been driving too fast when he reached the intersection where the highway curves slightly to the east. The car, a coach, evidently went through the arterial stop, veered to the left side of the road and went off into a field. The machine slid along on two wheels for about 40 feet. At that point Lenz evidently made some effort to turn back to the road, for the path of the car through the snow curved back. At that point the machine overturned, tipping end over end, crushing in the front end and badly denting the top as it rolled. According to authorities there was a patch of ice on the west side of the highway but the Lenz car did not hit it.
Miss Karstedt, badly shaken up and frightened by the crash, was incoherent in her description of the accident. It was probable, authorities said, that she may have been unconscious, for a short time after the smashup. She said she believes she spoke to Lenz shortly after the crash and that he answered. She walked to a nearby farmhouse for help, without shoes, which had been knocked from her feet by the crash. Sheriff Norman Berkedal, upon investigating
the accident, a short time later, found the shoes outside of the car. Unable to arouse anyone at the farm, Miss Karstedt went back to the wreck and tried to get Lenz to speak.
Leaves Again For Aid
“He didn’t talk, he didn’t answer me,” she told Dr. Foley later. She left the
wreck again and started toward School Hill, stopping in a fruitless attempt to awaken occupants of another farmhouse down the road. Meanwhile John Ahl, Newton route 1, accompanied by Milton Lutzke, Sheboygan, and Norbert Bonde, Valders route 1, reached the scene of the accident. A moment later Milton Meyer and Norbert Lenz, brother of the dead youth, also drove to the wrecked car. Lenz, with Lutzke and Meyer, took the body of his brother to Dr. Foley’s office in St. Nazianz in Meyer’s car. Ahl picked up Miss Karstedt, over a mile up the road from the scene of the crash. She was taken first to St. Nazianz and then to the Holy Family hospital in Manitowoc for treatment. Sheriff Berkdeal was called a few minutes after the crash was discovered, and went to St. Nazianz with District Attorney John R. Cashman. Dr. Gerald Rau,
County coroner, Two Rivers, also was called. Dr. Rau pronounced the death accidental and said there would be no inquest.
Was Born in Meeme
Ewald August Lenz, son of Mr. and Mrs. August W. Lenz, town of Meeme, was born
October 30, 1912 in the town of Meeme, where his parents own and operate a farm. He attended the district school and upon graduation, was employed for several years on various farms throughout the county. For the past year he had been employed at the Garden Toy Company in Sheboygan. Several days ago Mr. Lenz, father of the accident victim, purchased a farm and had planned that the boy would move to it and run it this coming spring.
Survivors besides the parents, include four brothers, Norbert, Alvis and Clarence, all at home, and Arno of Green Lake.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 from the home and at two o’clock from the Zion Evangelical Lutheran church at Louis Corners. The Rev. Harold O. Grunwald will officiate. Burial will be in the church cemetery.The body was taken to the home today from C. J. Meiselwitz funeral home in Kiel. It will lie at the home from this evening until the time of services Wednesday….
Manitowoc Herald Times, January 3, 1938 P. 2
Farm Youth is First Highway Fatality in The County for 1938
Ewald (sic) Lenz of Meeme Is Killed When Car Overturns; Girl Is Injured
Manitowoc county’s first highway fatality for 1938 took the life of Ewald August Lenz, 25-year-old town of Meeme youth, shortly after 1 a.m. Sunday at the intersection of Highway 149 and County Trunk M midway between School Hill and Liberty Pole. The car overturned and rolled end over end at least three times.
Norma Karstedt, 17, School Hill, who was riding with Lenz, suffered only minor bruises, shock and exposure, the latter from a walk of over a mile through the snow without shoes or a hat to seek help for her companion. Miss Karstedt tried to secure assistance at two farmhouses near the scene of the crash but her pounding and shouts failed to awaken the residents and she stumbled on up the road toward School Hill.
Almost Instantly Killed.
His chest was badly crushed and he had severe neck injuries.Lenz and Miss Karstedt had been at School Hill playing cards Saturday evening. They left in Lenz’s car at about 1 a.m. and drove south on County Trunk M. Although nobody saw the actual crash, authorities said Lenz must have been driving too fast when he reached the intersection where the highway curves slightly to the east. The car, a coach, evidently went through the arterial stop, veered to the left side of the road and went off into a field. The machine slid along on two wheels for about 40 feet. At that point Lenz evidently made some effort to turn back to the road, for the path of the car through the snow curved back. At that point the machine overturned, tipping end over end, crushing in the front end and badly denting the top as it rolled. According to authorities there was a patch of ice on the west side of the highway but the Lenz car did not hit it.
Miss Karstedt, badly shaken up and frightened by the crash, was incoherent in her description of the accident. It was probable, authorities said, that she may have been unconscious, for a short time after the smashup. She said she believes she spoke to Lenz shortly after the crash and that he answered. She walked to a nearby farmhouse for help, without shoes, which had been knocked from her feet by the crash. Sheriff Norman Berkedal, upon investigating
the accident, a short time later, found the shoes outside of the car. Unable to arouse anyone at the farm, Miss Karstedt went back to the wreck and tried to get Lenz to speak.
Leaves Again For Aid
“He didn’t talk, he didn’t answer me,” she told Dr. Foley later. She left the
wreck again and started toward School Hill, stopping in a fruitless attempt to awaken occupants of another farmhouse down the road. Meanwhile John Ahl, Newton route 1, accompanied by Milton Lutzke, Sheboygan, and Norbert Bonde, Valders route 1, reached the scene of the accident. A moment later Milton Meyer and Norbert Lenz, brother of the dead youth, also drove to the wrecked car. Lenz, with Lutzke and Meyer, took the body of his brother to Dr. Foley’s office in St. Nazianz in Meyer’s car. Ahl picked up Miss Karstedt, over a mile up the road from the scene of the crash. She was taken first to St. Nazianz and then to the Holy Family hospital in Manitowoc for treatment. Sheriff Berkdeal was called a few minutes after the crash was discovered, and went to St. Nazianz with District Attorney John R. Cashman. Dr. Gerald Rau,
County coroner, Two Rivers, also was called. Dr. Rau pronounced the death accidental and said there would be no inquest.
Was Born in Meeme
Ewald August Lenz, son of Mr. and Mrs. August W. Lenz, town of Meeme, was born
October 30, 1912 in the town of Meeme, where his parents own and operate a farm. He attended the district school and upon graduation, was employed for several years on various farms throughout the county. For the past year he had been employed at the Garden Toy Company in Sheboygan. Several days ago Mr. Lenz, father of the accident victim, purchased a farm and had planned that the boy would move to it and run it this coming spring.
Survivors besides the parents, include four brothers, Norbert, Alvis and Clarence, all at home, and Arno of Green Lake.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 from the home and at two o’clock from the Zion Evangelical Lutheran church at Louis Corners. The Rev. Harold O. Grunwald will officiate. Burial will be in the church cemetery.The body was taken to the home today from C. J. Meiselwitz funeral home in Kiel. It will lie at the home from this evening until the time of services Wednesday….
Manitowoc Herald Times, January 3, 1938 P. 2
Ewald (sic) Lenz of Meeme Is Killed When Car Overturns; Girl Is Injured
Manitowoc county’s first highway fatality for 1938 took the life of Ewald August Lenz, 25-year-old town of Meeme youth, shortly after 1 a.m. Sunday at the intersection of Highway 149 and County Trunk M midway between School Hill and Liberty Pole. The car overturned and rolled end over end at least three times.
Norma Karstedt, 17, School Hill, who was riding with Lenz, suffered only minor bruises, shock and exposure, the latter from a walk of over a mile through the snow without shoes or a hat to seek help for her companion. Miss Karstedt tried to secure assistance at two farmhouses near the scene of the crash but her pounding and shouts failed to awaken the residents and she stumbled on up the road toward School Hill.
Almost Instantly Killed.
His chest was badly crushed and he had severe neck injuries.Lenz and Miss Karstedt had been at School Hill playing cards Saturday evening. They left in Lenz’s car at about 1 a.m. and drove south on County Trunk M. Although nobody saw the actual crash, authorities said Lenz must have been driving too fast when he reached the intersection where the highway curves slightly to the east. The car, a coach, evidently went through the arterial stop, veered to the left side of the road and went off into a field. The machine slid along on two wheels for about 40 feet. At that point Lenz evidently made some effort to turn back to the road, for the path of the car through the snow curved back. At that point the machine overturned, tipping end over end, crushing in the front end and badly denting the top as it rolled. According to authorities there was a patch of ice on the west side of the highway but the Lenz car did not hit it.
Miss Karstedt, badly shaken up and frightened by the crash, was incoherent in her description of the accident. It was probable, authorities said, that she may have been unconscious, for a short time after the smashup. She said she believes she spoke to Lenz shortly after the crash and that he answered. She walked to a nearby farmhouse for help, without shoes, which had been knocked from her feet by the crash. Sheriff Norman Berkedal, upon investigating
the accident, a short time later, found the shoes outside of the car. Unable to arouse anyone at the farm, Miss Karstedt went back to the wreck and tried to get Lenz to speak.
Leaves Again For Aid
“He didn’t talk, he didn’t answer me,” she told Dr. Foley later. She left the
wreck again and started toward School Hill, stopping in a fruitless attempt to awaken occupants of another farmhouse down the road. Meanwhile John Ahl, Newton route 1, accompanied by Milton Lutzke, Sheboygan, and Norbert Bonde, Valders route 1, reached the scene of the accident. A moment later Milton Meyer and Norbert Lenz, brother of the dead youth, also drove to the wrecked car. Lenz, with Lutzke and Meyer, took the body of his brother to Dr. Foley’s office in St. Nazianz in Meyer’s car. Ahl picked up Miss Karstedt, over a mile up the road from the scene of the crash. She was taken first to St. Nazianz and then to the Holy Family hospital in Manitowoc for treatment. Sheriff Berkdeal was called a few minutes after the crash was discovered, and went to St. Nazianz with District Attorney John R. Cashman. Dr. Gerald Rau,
County coroner, Two Rivers, also was called. Dr. Rau pronounced the death accidental and said there would be no inquest.
Was Born in Meeme
Ewald August Lenz, son of Mr. and Mrs. August W. Lenz, town of Meeme, was born
October 30, 1912 in the town of Meeme, where his parents own and operate a farm. He attended the district school and upon graduation, was employed for several years on various farms throughout the county. For the past year he had been employed at the Garden Toy Company in Sheboygan. Several days ago Mr. Lenz, father of the accident victim, purchased a farm and had planned that the boy would move to it and run it this coming spring.
Survivors besides the parents, include four brothers, Norbert, Alvis and Clarence, all at home, and Arno of Green Lake.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 from the home and at two o’clock from the Zion Evangelical Lutheran church at Louis Corners. The Rev. Harold O. Grunwald will officiate. Burial will be in the church cemetery.The body was taken to the home today from C. J. Meiselwitz funeral home in Kiel. It will lie at the home from this evening until the time of services Wednesday….
Manitowoc Herald Times, January 3, 1938 P. 2
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