JACOBSON, Carl Gustav 1877-1901

JACOBSON

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 1/7/2017 at 19:17:50

Dubuque Daily Herald, August 2, 1901

Life Was Insured
~
Carl Jacobson, the young man who died here last week from a fall from an electric pole, carried $6,000 life insurance. This will make comfortable his near relatives who live in Waterville, this state, where his remains were shipped for burial.

______________________________________

Added by S. Ferrall 1/9/2017:

Carl Jacobson, the young man who fell from an electric light pole in the alley between Second and Third streets Tuesday and received serious internal injuries, died this morning at Mercy hospital. Jacobson, it will be remembered, was in the employ of the Union Electric Company, and with a companion was doing work up on a pole about thirty feet from the ground when he caught a live wire. The shock caused him to lose his balance, and he finally fell to the ground. Before he fell the wire burned his hand and face quite severely, but it was the fall that proved fatal and he never fully recovered consciousness.

The deceased came here some time ago from Waukon and had been employed before entering the services of the Union Electric Company as a lineman for the Standard Telephone Company. He was an industrious young man of good habits and his associates who had learned to like him deplore his death. He was familiar with the work and no blame could possibly be attached to anyone for his death. His remains will be shipped to Waukon for interment.

~Dubuque Daily Telegraph, Thurs. evening, July 25, 1901

-- -- -- -- --

Dubuque July 30, Carl Jacobson, a young man who's home was at Waterville, met with an accidental death. He was in the employ of the electric light company, and in some manner his hand came in contact with a live wire while at work on a pole thirty feet from the ground. The shock caused him to loose his balance and he fell to the ground, breaking his right leg in two places. His hand was so badly burned by the electricity that amputation was necessary, the shock of which in connection with his other injuries causing his death on Thursday August 1*, at the hospital where he was removed shortly after the accident.

For some time past, Jacobson was in the employ of the Standard Phone Co., and only a week ago had gone to the electric light company. He was warned by V.H. Stevens his late employer, to be careful about his new work. The wires of the electric company are said to be poorly insulated and in a condition not sanctioned by the city ordinances. It is likely the company will be a party to a big damage suit brought by Jacobson's relatives for negligence that caused his death.

~Elgin Echo, Thursday, August 8, 1901
*DOD was Thursday, July 25th, not August 1st.

Notes:
-1885 Iowa State census-
Carl Gustav Jacobson, age 7, is enumerated in the household of his parents Olaus & Touetta Jacobson, Paint Creek twp.
-Gravestone-
Old East Paint Creek cemetery
09/20/1877 - 07/25/1901

___________________________

Added by Joy Moore 3/31/2020:

Source: Decorah Republican Aug. 22, 1901 P 3 C 3

—Carl Jacobson, a young man from Waterville who was killed by an electric light wire in Dubuque recently, carried $4,000 of life insurance.