Mishicot Farmer Killed While Blasting Stumps
Wenzel Shebesta, 51-year-old town of Mishicot farmer and father of nine children, was instantly killed Friday afternoon while engaged in blasting stumps on the farm of a neighbor, Frank Kowalski, Gibson. Shebesta was struck full in the face by a charge of dynamite he had placed in the stump of an old tree a few moments before.
Was Blasting Stumps
The farmer was dead when a son Raymond, 22, and a companion, Joseph Robinson, working with him in blasting stumps on the Kowalski farm, six miles north of the village of Mishicot, reached his side. Shebesta's face was mutilated and his skull fractured. The younger Shebesta and Robinson moved the farmer to the Martin Hodek farm. Coroner Gerald Rau, Two Rivers, summoned to the scene, announced that there would be no inquest. The body was removed to the Beduhn
funeral home, Two Rivers.
Shebesta, who was experienced in the handling of dynamite, is believed to have become careless for a moment Friday afternoon and peered from behind a tree 60 feet from the stump where he had placed two sticks of dynamite. At that moment the charge let go and Shebesta was struck in the face.
Raymond Shebesta and Robinson, who had retreated a considerable distance farther than Wenzel Shebesta, told the coroner that they turned their backs as the dynamite charge exploded. When they looked around, they noted the elder Shebesta crumpled in a heap alongside a tree.
Born in Mishicot
Mr. Shebesta was born in the town of Mishicot 51 years ago and for years operated the homestead farm. Twenty-five years ago, he married Miss Mary Aulik at Tisch Mills.
Survivors are the widow;
five daughters,
*Mrs. Edward Ording and
*Evelyn, city,
*Frances,
*Delores and
*Dorothy, Mishicot;
four sons,
*Raymond,
*Alfred,
*Joseph and
*Donald, all of Mishicot.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Saturday, March 6, 1937.
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Wenzel Shebesta, 51-year-old town of Mishicot farmer and father of nine children, was instantly killed Friday afternoon while engaged in blasting stumps on the farm of a neighbor, Frank Kowalski, Gibson. Shebesta was struck full in the face by a charge of dynamite he had placed in the stump of an old tree a few moments before.
Was Blasting Stumps
The farmer was dead when a son Raymond, 22, and a companion, Joseph Robinson, working with him in blasting stumps on the Kowalski farm, six miles north of the village of Mishicot, reached his side. Shebesta's face was mutilated and his skull fractured. The younger Shebesta and Robinson moved the farmer to the Martin Hodek farm. Coroner Gerald Rau, Two Rivers, summoned to the scene, announced that there would be no inquest. The body was removed to the Beduhn
funeral home, Two Rivers.
Shebesta, who was experienced in the handling of dynamite, is believed to have become careless for a moment Friday afternoon and peered from behind a tree 60 feet from the stump where he had placed two sticks of dynamite. At that moment the charge let go and Shebesta was struck in the face.
Raymond Shebesta and Robinson, who had retreated a considerable distance farther than Wenzel Shebesta, told the coroner that they turned their backs as the dynamite charge exploded. When they looked around, they noted the elder Shebesta crumpled in a heap alongside a tree.
Born in Mishicot
Mr. Shebesta was born in the town of Mishicot 51 years ago and for years operated the homestead farm. Twenty-five years ago, he married Miss Mary Aulik at Tisch Mills.
Survivors are the widow;
five daughters,
*Mrs. Edward Ording and
*Evelyn, city,
*Frances,
*Delores and
*Dorothy, Mishicot;
four sons,
*Raymond,
*Alfred,
*Joseph and
*Donald, all of Mishicot.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Saturday, March 6, 1937.
(edited)
Mishicot Farmer Killed While Blasting Stumps
Wenzel Shebesta, 51-year-old town of Mishicot farmer and father of nine children, was instantly killed Friday afternoon while engaged in blasting stumps on the farm of a neighbor, Frank Kowalski, Gibson. Shebesta was struck full in the face by a charge of dynamite he had placed in the stump of an old tree a few moments before.
Was Blasting Stumps
The farmer was dead when a son Raymond, 22, and a companion, Joseph Robinson, working with him in blasting stumps on the Kowalski farm, six miles north of the village of Mishicot, reached his side. Shebesta's face was mutilated and his skull fractured. The younger Shebesta and Robinson moved the farmer to the Martin Hodek farm. Coroner Gerald Rau, Two Rivers, summoned to the scene, announced that there would be no inquest. The body was removed to the Beduhn
funeral home, Two Rivers.
Shebesta, who was experienced in the handling of dynamite, is believed to have become careless for a moment Friday afternoon and peered from behind a tree 60 feet from the stump where he had placed two sticks of dynamite. At that moment the charge let go and Shebesta was struck in the face.
Raymond Shebesta and Robinson, who had retreated a considerable distance farther than Wenzel Shebesta, told the coroner that they turned their backs as the dynamite charge exploded. When they looked around, they noted the elder Shebesta crumpled in a heap alongside a tree.
Born in Mishicot
Mr. Shebesta was born in the town of Mishicot 51 years ago and for years operated the homestead farm. Twenty-five years ago, he married Miss Mary Aulik at Tisch Mills.
Survivors are the widow;
five daughters,
*Mrs. Edward Ording and
*Evelyn, city,
*Frances,
*Delores and
*Dorothy, Mishicot;
four sons,
*Raymond,
*Alfred,
*Joseph and
*Donald, all of Mishicot.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Saturday, March 6, 1937.
(edited)
Wenzel Shebesta, 51-year-old town of Mishicot farmer and father of nine children, was instantly killed Friday afternoon while engaged in blasting stumps on the farm of a neighbor, Frank Kowalski, Gibson. Shebesta was struck full in the face by a charge of dynamite he had placed in the stump of an old tree a few moments before.
Was Blasting Stumps
The farmer was dead when a son Raymond, 22, and a companion, Joseph Robinson, working with him in blasting stumps on the Kowalski farm, six miles north of the village of Mishicot, reached his side. Shebesta's face was mutilated and his skull fractured. The younger Shebesta and Robinson moved the farmer to the Martin Hodek farm. Coroner Gerald Rau, Two Rivers, summoned to the scene, announced that there would be no inquest. The body was removed to the Beduhn
funeral home, Two Rivers.
Shebesta, who was experienced in the handling of dynamite, is believed to have become careless for a moment Friday afternoon and peered from behind a tree 60 feet from the stump where he had placed two sticks of dynamite. At that moment the charge let go and Shebesta was struck in the face.
Raymond Shebesta and Robinson, who had retreated a considerable distance farther than Wenzel Shebesta, told the coroner that they turned their backs as the dynamite charge exploded. When they looked around, they noted the elder Shebesta crumpled in a heap alongside a tree.
Born in Mishicot
Mr. Shebesta was born in the town of Mishicot 51 years ago and for years operated the homestead farm. Twenty-five years ago, he married Miss Mary Aulik at Tisch Mills.
Survivors are the widow;
five daughters,
*Mrs. Edward Ording and
*Evelyn, city,
*Frances,
*Delores and
*Dorothy, Mishicot;
four sons,
*Raymond,
*Alfred,
*Joseph and
*Donald, all of Mishicot.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Saturday, March 6, 1937.
(edited)
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