Henry A. Clausen (1908)

CLAUSEN

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 3/16/2014 at 15:40:30

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, November 19, 1908
Page 1

A FATAL ACCIDENT

TWO YEAR OLD BOY KILLED

Infant Son of Anton Clausen of Penn Township Meets Instant Death—Under Loaded Wagon

A fearful accident occurred Monday noon at the home of Anton Clausen on what was formerly the R. S. Williams farm south of Dexter, which caused the instant death of his two year old son. Mr. Clausen had been gathering corn and stopped with the loaded wagon when he reached the yard while he went to the well for a drink. When he returned to the wagon to drive to the crib, two of the older children were on the wagon. Mr. Clausen without knowing that the younger child was about the wagon, climbed on the load and started the team. The little boy was on the opposite side of the wagon, and was probably trying to climb up with the other children, though just how he got under the wheel will never be known. He was in front of the hindwheel and as the wagon started it knocked him down and passed over his head crushing it fearfully and causing instant death. Guy Lenocker, one of the neighbors, was on horseback a few yards away, and turned his horse toward the wagon just in time to see the life crushed out of the child, but too late to do anything to save it. The parents were crazed with grief, and the entire neighborhood shocked by the accident to the bright little boy. It seems almost incredible that such a fearful accident could occur at such a time and place.

The funeral services were held Wednesday at Dexter and the body laid to rest in the cemetery at that place.

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