JOSEPH MLADA
MLADA CARRIED $10,000 ON LIFE
Family Well Provided For - Funeral Tuesday in Charge of Societies
Family of Joseph Mlada the late unfortunate victim of the explosion
of the dynamite store house is comfortably provided for, the deceased
having $10,000 or more insurance on his life carried in the C.Z.B.J.
society, and old line companies. The Odd Fellows society of which the
decedent was a member will provide the funeral expense.
Funeral services will be held on Tuesday afternoon under auspices of
the Odd Fellows and the Bohemian societies the obsquies taking place
at 2 p.m. from the late home.
The Bohemian turners society and the C.Z.B.J. will have charge of the
services at the home on Chicago street and the Odd Fellows will take
charge of the last rites at the cemetery.
Interment will be at Evergreen cemetery.
Manitowoc Daily Herald, Monday, July 22, 1912 P.1
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[bur. 07-23-1912/cause: explosion of dynamite warehouse-
only small bits of body found]
The following contributed by: Shari Milks (49043446) • [email protected]
TERRIBLE EXPLOSION OF DYNAMITE.
An explosion last Friday afternoon stunned this community with its suddenness and the completeness of its destruction. The dynamite contained in the shed maintained on the Maresch farm by Joseph Mlada, a north side merchant, for the purpose of storing explosives "blew up," snuffing out of existence Mr. Mlada so completely that only small pieces of charred human remains were found.
Mr. Mlada was local agent for a Michigan powder house and kept in stock a large quantity of explosives in this building which was built for the purpose 500 feet north of the north Rapids road, in the ravine where the old "pest house" was formerly located. Expecting a call from a state inspector Mr. Mlada went out Friday to check up his supply of dynamite. There is said to have been about two ton in stock there. He left Mr. Maresh at the road and went up the ravine alone. At 3:10 in the afternoon the people for miles around were startled by an explosion. It shook the city and a dense could of white smoke rose high and indicated the source of the detonation. Plate glass in stores two miles away were shattered. Nearly every house for a mile around had windows broken. The shock was felt a distance of some fifteen miles. Early arrivals on the scene picked up small fragments of human remains, the largest an inch or two long. Enough to fill a small jar was patiently gathered. It is all that was left of Joseph Mlada. Where the dynamite house stood there is a large excavation. Everything in the immediate vicinity seems to have been consumed. Of the building only a few small pieces were found. A blanket of green leaves settled over everything near. Large nearby trees were uprooted and tossed quite a distance. A barn about 20 rods away, and protected by the bank of the ravine, was wrecked. Trees for a long distance were stripped of their foliage, and those for some distance of bark. To the deadening effect of the sides of the ravine is due the escape from a greater destruction of property and possibly life. How the accident occurred must remain merest conjecture and surmises can serve no purpose. Lured by the gruesome details thousands of people visited the scene beginning Friday afternoon and continuing Sunday.
Mr. Mlada has been in the retail mercantile business on Chicago street at the old Cizek stand for years. He came to this city from Kossuth and continued in the business through various vicissitudes. The store, for a time, a few years ago, was a farmers' co-operative establishment since which time it is said not to have been very prosperous. Mr. Mlada was 48 years of age and is survived by his wife, a son Irving, two daughters, Miss Belle Mlada and Mrs. Edward Colyer, all of this city, and a brother Anton of Cadott, Wis.
A funeral was held Tuesday under the auspices of the Odd Fellow and the Z.C.B.J., a Bohemian fraternal society.
Manitowoc Pilot, July 25, 1912 P. 1
MLADA CARRIED $10,000 ON LIFE
Family Well Provided For - Funeral Tuesday in Charge of Societies
Family of Joseph Mlada the late unfortunate victim of the explosion
of the dynamite store house is comfortably provided for, the deceased
having $10,000 or more insurance on his life carried in the C.Z.B.J.
society, and old line companies. The Odd Fellows society of which the
decedent was a member will provide the funeral expense.
Funeral services will be held on Tuesday afternoon under auspices of
the Odd Fellows and the Bohemian societies the obsquies taking place
at 2 p.m. from the late home.
The Bohemian turners society and the C.Z.B.J. will have charge of the
services at the home on Chicago street and the Odd Fellows will take
charge of the last rites at the cemetery.
Interment will be at Evergreen cemetery.
Manitowoc Daily Herald, Monday, July 22, 1912 P.1
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[bur. 07-23-1912/cause: explosion of dynamite warehouse-
only small bits of body found]
The following contributed by: Shari Milks (49043446) • [email protected]
TERRIBLE EXPLOSION OF DYNAMITE.
An explosion last Friday afternoon stunned this community with its suddenness and the completeness of its destruction. The dynamite contained in the shed maintained on the Maresch farm by Joseph Mlada, a north side merchant, for the purpose of storing explosives "blew up," snuffing out of existence Mr. Mlada so completely that only small pieces of charred human remains were found.
Mr. Mlada was local agent for a Michigan powder house and kept in stock a large quantity of explosives in this building which was built for the purpose 500 feet north of the north Rapids road, in the ravine where the old "pest house" was formerly located. Expecting a call from a state inspector Mr. Mlada went out Friday to check up his supply of dynamite. There is said to have been about two ton in stock there. He left Mr. Maresh at the road and went up the ravine alone. At 3:10 in the afternoon the people for miles around were startled by an explosion. It shook the city and a dense could of white smoke rose high and indicated the source of the detonation. Plate glass in stores two miles away were shattered. Nearly every house for a mile around had windows broken. The shock was felt a distance of some fifteen miles. Early arrivals on the scene picked up small fragments of human remains, the largest an inch or two long. Enough to fill a small jar was patiently gathered. It is all that was left of Joseph Mlada. Where the dynamite house stood there is a large excavation. Everything in the immediate vicinity seems to have been consumed. Of the building only a few small pieces were found. A blanket of green leaves settled over everything near. Large nearby trees were uprooted and tossed quite a distance. A barn about 20 rods away, and protected by the bank of the ravine, was wrecked. Trees for a long distance were stripped of their foliage, and those for some distance of bark. To the deadening effect of the sides of the ravine is due the escape from a greater destruction of property and possibly life. How the accident occurred must remain merest conjecture and surmises can serve no purpose. Lured by the gruesome details thousands of people visited the scene beginning Friday afternoon and continuing Sunday.
Mr. Mlada has been in the retail mercantile business on Chicago street at the old Cizek stand for years. He came to this city from Kossuth and continued in the business through various vicissitudes. The store, for a time, a few years ago, was a farmers' co-operative establishment since which time it is said not to have been very prosperous. Mr. Mlada was 48 years of age and is survived by his wife, a son Irving, two daughters, Miss Belle Mlada and Mrs. Edward Colyer, all of this city, and a brother Anton of Cadott, Wis.
A funeral was held Tuesday under the auspices of the Odd Fellow and the Z.C.B.J., a Bohemian fraternal society.
Manitowoc Pilot, July 25, 1912 P. 1
JOSEPH MLADA
MLADA CARRIED $10,000 ON LIFE
Family Well Provided For - Funeral Tuesday in Charge of Societies
Family of Joseph Mlada the late unfortunate victim of the explosion
of the dynamite store house is comfortably provided for, the deceased
having $10,000 or more insurance on his life carried in the C.Z.B.J.
society, and old line companies. The Odd Fellows society of which the
decedent was a member will provide the funeral expense.
Funeral services will be held on Tuesday afternoon under auspices of
the Odd Fellows and the Bohemian societies the obsquies taking place
at 2 p.m. from the late home.
The Bohemian turners society and the C.Z.B.J. will have charge of the
services at the home on Chicago street and the Odd Fellows will take
charge of the last rites at the cemetery.
Interment will be at Evergreen cemetery.
Manitowoc Daily Herald, Monday, July 22, 1912 P.1
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[bur. 07-23-1912/cause: explosion of dynamite warehouse-
only small bits of body found]
The following contributed by: Shari Milks (49043446) • [email protected]
TERRIBLE EXPLOSION OF DYNAMITE.
An explosion last Friday afternoon stunned this community with its suddenness and the completeness of its destruction. The dynamite contained in the shed maintained on the Maresch farm by Joseph Mlada, a north side merchant, for the purpose of storing explosives "blew up," snuffing out of existence Mr. Mlada so completely that only small pieces of charred human remains were found.
Mr. Mlada was local agent for a Michigan powder house and kept in stock a large quantity of explosives in this building which was built for the purpose 500 feet north of the north Rapids road, in the ravine where the old "pest house" was formerly located. Expecting a call from a state inspector Mr. Mlada went out Friday to check up his supply of dynamite. There is said to have been about two ton in stock there. He left Mr. Maresh at the road and went up the ravine alone. At 3:10 in the afternoon the people for miles around were startled by an explosion. It shook the city and a dense could of white smoke rose high and indicated the source of the detonation. Plate glass in stores two miles away were shattered. Nearly every house for a mile around had windows broken. The shock was felt a distance of some fifteen miles. Early arrivals on the scene picked up small fragments of human remains, the largest an inch or two long. Enough to fill a small jar was patiently gathered. It is all that was left of Joseph Mlada. Where the dynamite house stood there is a large excavation. Everything in the immediate vicinity seems to have been consumed. Of the building only a few small pieces were found. A blanket of green leaves settled over everything near. Large nearby trees were uprooted and tossed quite a distance. A barn about 20 rods away, and protected by the bank of the ravine, was wrecked. Trees for a long distance were stripped of their foliage, and those for some distance of bark. To the deadening effect of the sides of the ravine is due the escape from a greater destruction of property and possibly life. How the accident occurred must remain merest conjecture and surmises can serve no purpose. Lured by the gruesome details thousands of people visited the scene beginning Friday afternoon and continuing Sunday.
Mr. Mlada has been in the retail mercantile business on Chicago street at the old Cizek stand for years. He came to this city from Kossuth and continued in the business through various vicissitudes. The store, for a time, a few years ago, was a farmers' co-operative establishment since which time it is said not to have been very prosperous. Mr. Mlada was 48 years of age and is survived by his wife, a son Irving, two daughters, Miss Belle Mlada and Mrs. Edward Colyer, all of this city, and a brother Anton of Cadott, Wis.
A funeral was held Tuesday under the auspices of the Odd Fellow and the Z.C.B.J., a Bohemian fraternal society.
Manitowoc Pilot, July 25, 1912 P. 1
MLADA CARRIED $10,000 ON LIFE
Family Well Provided For - Funeral Tuesday in Charge of Societies
Family of Joseph Mlada the late unfortunate victim of the explosion
of the dynamite store house is comfortably provided for, the deceased
having $10,000 or more insurance on his life carried in the C.Z.B.J.
society, and old line companies. The Odd Fellows society of which the
decedent was a member will provide the funeral expense.
Funeral services will be held on Tuesday afternoon under auspices of
the Odd Fellows and the Bohemian societies the obsquies taking place
at 2 p.m. from the late home.
The Bohemian turners society and the C.Z.B.J. will have charge of the
services at the home on Chicago street and the Odd Fellows will take
charge of the last rites at the cemetery.
Interment will be at Evergreen cemetery.
Manitowoc Daily Herald, Monday, July 22, 1912 P.1
********
[bur. 07-23-1912/cause: explosion of dynamite warehouse-
only small bits of body found]
The following contributed by: Shari Milks (49043446) • [email protected]
TERRIBLE EXPLOSION OF DYNAMITE.
An explosion last Friday afternoon stunned this community with its suddenness and the completeness of its destruction. The dynamite contained in the shed maintained on the Maresch farm by Joseph Mlada, a north side merchant, for the purpose of storing explosives "blew up," snuffing out of existence Mr. Mlada so completely that only small pieces of charred human remains were found.
Mr. Mlada was local agent for a Michigan powder house and kept in stock a large quantity of explosives in this building which was built for the purpose 500 feet north of the north Rapids road, in the ravine where the old "pest house" was formerly located. Expecting a call from a state inspector Mr. Mlada went out Friday to check up his supply of dynamite. There is said to have been about two ton in stock there. He left Mr. Maresh at the road and went up the ravine alone. At 3:10 in the afternoon the people for miles around were startled by an explosion. It shook the city and a dense could of white smoke rose high and indicated the source of the detonation. Plate glass in stores two miles away were shattered. Nearly every house for a mile around had windows broken. The shock was felt a distance of some fifteen miles. Early arrivals on the scene picked up small fragments of human remains, the largest an inch or two long. Enough to fill a small jar was patiently gathered. It is all that was left of Joseph Mlada. Where the dynamite house stood there is a large excavation. Everything in the immediate vicinity seems to have been consumed. Of the building only a few small pieces were found. A blanket of green leaves settled over everything near. Large nearby trees were uprooted and tossed quite a distance. A barn about 20 rods away, and protected by the bank of the ravine, was wrecked. Trees for a long distance were stripped of their foliage, and those for some distance of bark. To the deadening effect of the sides of the ravine is due the escape from a greater destruction of property and possibly life. How the accident occurred must remain merest conjecture and surmises can serve no purpose. Lured by the gruesome details thousands of people visited the scene beginning Friday afternoon and continuing Sunday.
Mr. Mlada has been in the retail mercantile business on Chicago street at the old Cizek stand for years. He came to this city from Kossuth and continued in the business through various vicissitudes. The store, for a time, a few years ago, was a farmers' co-operative establishment since which time it is said not to have been very prosperous. Mr. Mlada was 48 years of age and is survived by his wife, a son Irving, two daughters, Miss Belle Mlada and Mrs. Edward Colyer, all of this city, and a brother Anton of Cadott, Wis.
A funeral was held Tuesday under the auspices of the Odd Fellow and the Z.C.B.J., a Bohemian fraternal society.
Manitowoc Pilot, July 25, 1912 P. 1
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