Krause, Frank 1894

KRAUSE, KRAUS

Posted By: Nettie Mae
Date: 5/23/2021 at 17:43:30

The Clinton Morning Age 10 Feb 1894
VERY SUDDEN DEATH
FRANK KRAUSE CALLED LATE THURSDAY NIGHT.
Was About Town Thursday Afternoon -- A Highly Esteemed Young Man -- The Funeral.
Many friends and acquaintances were greatly shocked Friday morning when it was announced that Frank Kraus was dead. He died very suddenly at his home, 312 Ninth avenue, at 11:45 o'clock Thursday night after an illness of about two weeks, the immediate cause of death being congestion of the lungs.
Frank Kraus was born in Galena, Ill., and was twenty-six years old at the time of his death. He was an industrious young man of excellent habits and had built and paid for his pretty home on Ninth avenue before his marriage, which even took place about eighteen months ago. He was a machinist, and for several years past had been employed in the C. & N. W. Railway shops in this city.
Two weeks ago he was taken ill with la grippe and was obliged to quit work, being confined to his home until Thursday, when he felt so much improved that he went down town and consulted with his physician.
He was about his home in the evening and retired to his bed about 10 o'clock, shortly after which he was so violently ill that his physician was hastily summoned. Despite the medical skill, however, he continued to fail rapidly until the hour of his death as above stated.
Besides the widow and a little girl baby, the parents of deceased are left to mourn, the father being Conrad Kraus, who for twenty-three years has been first engineer on the steamer W. J. Young, Jr.
The remains will be taken to Galena, Ill., this morning, where the funeral services will be held Sunday.