THIESE, Irene died 1901

THIESE

Posted By: Sharyl Ferrall (email)
Date: 1/9/2003 at 05:48:49

At Postville on Monday, Irene Thiese, the 11-year-old daughter of Henry Thiese, while returning home from school shortly after 12o'clock was run over by an accomodation train on the C.M. & St.P. road east bound. The engineer, as the train approached the crossing, called to the child not to cross, but she did not heed the warning and was run down. Her right leg was severed near the hip and her body was badly mangled. She lived an hour and a half and suffered great agony.
~Elkader Register; March ?, 1901

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Added by Joy Moore 3/16/2020:

Source: Decorah Republican Mar. 21, 1901 P 7 C 5

Child Killed at Postville.
Postville, March 18:—Irene Thiese, the 11-year-old daughter of Henry Thiese, while returning home from school shortly after 12 o’clock was run over by an accommodation train on the C., M. & St. P road, east bound. The engineer as the train approached the crossing called to the child not to cross, but she did not heed the warning and was run down. Her right leg was severed near the hip and her body badly mangled. She lived an hour and a half and suffered great agony.

Transcriber’s Note: Find a Grave shows she is buried in the Postville Cemetery and was born July 22, 1889