Schroeder, Karl died 1895
SCHROEDER
Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 4/1/2022 at 14:52:28
Elkader Register, Fri., 05 July 1895.
Friday morning the mangled body of Carl Schroeder, a son of James Schroeder, of Guttenberg, was found on the railroad track three miles above the city. The young man had started on Monday looking for work, and was evidently on his way home when he met his death.
We learn from Guttenberg that the belief is expressed that the young was forced off the train while it was in motion and thus was killed.
The Dubuque Herald is informed that the fact that only one rail bore evidences of the tragedy started the investigation. It is the opinion of those who saw the body on the track that death was not instantaneous, but that the young man had bled to death. At McGregor it was learned that the young man had boarded the night passenger train for Guttenberg, and relatives of the deceased then began looking for passengers of the train. On Friday a woman was found who was on the train, and rode from McGregor to Dubuque. She was induced to go to Guttenberg. Coroner Kriebs, of Elkport, was summoned and an inquest was held Saturday and Sunday. Our informant did not obtain full details of her testimony, but from what he learned, she testified that the deceased and two other men were occupants of the coach. The deceased had no money to pay his fare, and about the place where the accident occurred the conductor slowed up and put him off.
The right arm was torn out of the socket, the heel of the right foot was crushed and the left leg was terribly mangled. The theory of those pushing the investigation is that either the train did not slow up enough, or the deceased resisted and was forced off, and that while hanging on to the platform his foot caught in the wheel: he clung desperately to the handrail until his arm was torn out, and then fell on the track and the wheels passed over the other leg.
We understand that the verdict of the coroner's jury is that the young man came to his death by the train in a manner unknown to them (the jury.) It is though the matter will be further investigated.
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Elkader Register, Fri., 12 July 1895. Local columns.
In the matter of the killing of Carl Schroeder near Guttenberg, it is said that Supt. Stapleton says an investigation shows that no one answering the description of the young man was on the early passenger train, and that the train did not stop between McGregor and Guttenberg.
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Gravestone in the Guttenberg City cemetery spells his given name as KARL
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