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Quentin Knape

KNAPE

Posted By: CJeanealogy (email)
Date: 12/14/2019 at 22:34:14

Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette Monday November 20, 1922
Sand Pile Cave-In Kills 2 Boys
BURIED ALIVE WHILE PLAYING NEAR HOSPITAL
Quentine[sic] Knape And Homer Rude Meet Tragic Fate Here Suiday[sic] P.M.
Back of children's laughter at play yesterday afternoon stalked tragedy when Homer Rude, 324 North Thirteenth street, and Quentin Knape, 1252 C avenue, both 9 years old, were killed by being buried alive in a cave in of the sand bank at the rear of St. Luke's hospital, near the end of North Eleventh street.
Both boys were dead when dug out from beneath two to three feet of sand, dirt and rocks at 6 p.m. Desperate efforts were made with a pulmotor to revive them but to no avail.
That the Knape boy met his death in a heroic effort to save his playmate is indicated from the fact that Homer Rude had been dead several hours when the rescue party reached them, while Quentin's body showed that he had been dead a short time. Other children who rant when the first landslide came remembered that Quentin stayed. Fighting frantically against the elusive, heavy sand, throwing it away from the prostrate form of his chum as best he could with his hands and sticks, the second slide caught him while bending over in this work and he had no chance.
The two boys with Quentin's brother, Donald, and several other children left their homes early thin the afternoon saying they were going to the high sand bank back of the hospital where they had been in the habit of playing at digging tunnels and caves, building miniature cities and other imitations that come only to the graphic imagination of happy children.
B.E. Rude, grandfather of Homer and at whose home the boy had lived, declares he warned them to be careful and to not dig under the sand cliff that rises in steep ascent from the tracks of the Waterloo interurban at the bank of the slough. When the boys did not return at 4:30 and when the other children told of the first land-slide Mr. and Mrs. Rude, Mrs. Knape, Donald and Muriel Knape and other started in search.
They went directly to the sand bank and there, where the other children pointed out where they had been playing, were the tell-tale, tragic mounds in which the boys were entombed near the top of the cliff. The rescuers were aided by C.W. Seltrecht from the Coe college heating plant, and others who as soon as they heard of the tragedy rushed to the scene.
It took but a few minutes to reach the bodies. Both were in a doubled up position and about two feet apart. Neither had suffered broken bones or other bodily injuries in the slide, but the fine sand, covering them like an impenetrable blanket had suffocated them. Wymer's ambulance and pulmotor were called, but efforts to revive them failed. Their bodies were taken first to St. Lukes' hospital and then to Wymer's mortuary.
Quentin Knape is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C.M. Knape, the fomer an electrical engineer. Homer Rude is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Purvis Rude. The boy's father is employed on the Canton, Ill., Daily Register as a linotype operator and while working there Mrs. Rude and their four children had been living with Mr. Rude's parents. Homer is survived by two sisters, Mary and Bernadine, and a brother, Ben, in addition to his parents and grandparents.
Coroner R.A. Vorpahl was notified late last night and made an investigation this forenoon. There will be no inquest, he said.
Funeral services for Quentin Knape will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Wymer mortuary, the Rev. R.B. Hyten officiating. Burial will be in Oak Hill.
Arrangements for the funeral of Homer Rude have not been made.

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