Joseph Rittner, 1829-1854

RITTNER

Posted By: Leslie W. Saint (email)
Date: 12/20/2013 at 18:18:54

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 8, Number 1136, 13 November 1854, p. 1

The Daily Union.
Latter from Northern California.

Joseph Rittner, a young man twenty-five years of age, from Burlington, Iowa, was crushed to death on the 4th inst. He was hauling a load of lumber, and the cart running over some stumps in the road, threw the entire load over him, fracturing his skull and otherwise injuring him, so that he died.