August Kirsch 1871

KIRSCH

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 11/18/2015 at 17:16:35

DUBUQUE DAILY TELEGRAPH, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1901

HIS SKULL FRACTURED
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AUG. KUSCH, AN AGED TAILOR,
FELL FROM THIRD STORY
OF A BUILDING
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HIS INJURIES MAY PROVE FATAL
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Was on Way to His Room When
He Lost His Balance and Fell
Forty Feet
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August Kirsch, a tailor employed by C. A. Lorenz & Co., 255 Sixth Street, lies in a critical condition at Mercy Hospital as the result of injuries he sustained at 11:30 o’clock last night by falling headlong from the third story of the building at 928 White Street. Kirsch is on to seventy years of age and it is feared that owing to his advanced age and the nature of the injuries that they may prove fatal.

The injured man was removed to the police station shortly after the accident occurred. A physician and priest were summoned, but as Kirsch did not regain consciousness the physician ordered him removed to the hospital while an examination of his injuries proved that the back part of his skull was fractured. At 1:30 o’clock this morning the patient had not regained consciousness and little is entertained for his recovery.
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Alighted on a Pile of Rocks
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The building from which Kirsch fell is a third story brick structure at the corner of Ninth and Clay Streets and is was while he was in the act of unlocking the door leading from the back porch into the building that he lost his balance and fell over the railing a lightening upon a heap of rubbish forty feet below. People residing in other parts of the building heard a crash, and upon investigating the cause of the noise they discovered the unconsciousness form of the aged man lying upon the heap of rubbish. Not a groan was heard from the apparently lifeless form and those who first reached the spot where the tailor lay thought that he had been instantly killed. The ambulance was sent for and upon its arrival the injured man was removed to the police station and was later taken to the hospital

HEARD HIM CLIMB THE STAIRS

A member of one of the families residing in the building heard the old gentleman go up the stairs which lead to the porches in the rear of the building, he reached the third landing and it was only a few seconds after arriving there which the crash which startled the other occupants of the building was heard.

Kirsch is a widow and has been a resident of the city for many years. He has two children, a son and a daughter.