Angelo Calesso Drowned - 1913

CALESSO, ZINZER, STONER, CHIVINGTON, MEALEY, ZANATTA, TRIGGIANI

Posted By: Dorothy (email)
Date: 1/11/2009 at 18:35:34

Angelo Calesso was drowned in the
Otter a short distance above the dam
just above the Iron bridge Sunday
afternoon at about 6:15. He was employed
in the C. G. W. shops and
worked till 5:30 when he declared
his intention of going in bathing. This
intention he followed at the place
above designated. As far as known
he was alone and no one was present
to witness the last struggle or to
assist him. The water where he was
drowned is between six and seven
feet in depth.'
A boy named Victor Zinzer, saw some
clothes on the bank about 6:30
and on returning to the place about
twenty minutes later noticed that they
had not been disturbed. Later Officer
Stoner was phoned as to the case and
about 9 with Chief Chivington drove
down in the hack with grappling rods.
After a few minutes Paul Mealey, who
was one of the party, hooked the body
and it was brought to shore from
where it had been layng in over six
feet of water.
The body was brought to the Hintz
undertaking parlors and prepared for
burial. Cornner Smiffle was notified
and came to the city Monday morning
and an inquest held with the Jury
consisting of J. G. Schaum, C. M.
Langley and W. G. Fettkether heard
the evidence as given by those who
last saw the unfortunate man alive
and by the boy who first saw the
clothes on the bank and those who
recovered the body. Their verdict
was accidental-drowning
Angelo Calesso came to this country
from Traviso, Italy, two and a half
years ago and has been in the employ
of the Great Western in the
shops for nearly all the time since he
arrived here. He was a young man
of about twenty five years of age
and his father and mother are living
in the old,country.
In conversation with B. Zanatta.
where he boarded, it is learned that
he was a young man of good habits
and that he was planning to go back
to his native town in Italy in about
three months to wed the young woman
of his choice. He had been sending
the most of his wages to the old
country..
In his clothes there was found but
$2.10 but there is due him from the
C. G. W. for the present month's
work something like $60. It is said
by his associates that he could swim
so it is probable that he was seized
with cramps and thus sank to his
death. Vito Triggiani a friend of Calesso,
was one of the witnesses and
acted as interpreter at the inquest.

Oelwein Daily Register - 30 June 1913