Leo Otto

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Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 5/23/2021 at 17:43:30

26 June 1956 - The Tipton Conservative

The body of Leo D. Otto, 31, Clinton, who fell from the Gateway bridge at Clinton May 3, was recovered from the Mississippi river early Thursday evening by three boatmen.

Otto was the brother of Robert Otto, Tipton.

The body was discovered in the river near the point of Beaver Island, about a half-mile downstream from the bridge.

Otto was employed as a laborer for the Industrial Constr. Co., Minneapolis, when the accident occurred. He was stripping concrete forms from the bridge when he reached for a rope and fell 60 feet to the river.

The body was discovered by William Holcomb, Klemmins Ekert and William Jensen, all of Muscatine. The body was taken to the Snell funeral home from which services were held Saturday.