Schroeder, Son of Nic 1880-1883

SCHROEDER, SCHRADER

Posted By: Linda Mohning (email)
Date: 6/10/2016 at 09:01:14

DISTRESSING DEATH. The little Son of N. Schrader, of Marion Township, Upsets a Coffee Boiler and is Scalded to Death. A most terrible and heart-rendering accident took place at the residence of N. Shrader, in Marion township yesterday morning, the circumstances of which are as follows:
While preparing breakfast Mrs. Schrader chanced to set down a coffee boiler filled with boiling coffee within reach of her little child, aged about two years, who was playing about the floor. While the mother’s back was turned the little one approached the stove and reaching up seized the coffee boiler, which was standing on the hearth, and pulling it over emptied its entire contents on its head and person. The screams of the child attracted the mother’s attention and turning about she beheld her little one on the floor writhing in agony, the boiling coffee dripping from its head, face and clothing. Catching up the child she quickly stripped off its clothes but the boiling fluid had done its cruel work, and the little one’s body was blistered from its head to its feet, although the worst burns were about the head and face.
A physician was summoned as soon as possible, but all that could be done for the little sufferer was of no avail and after lingering in terrible agony for nearly three hours, the pure spirit left is scorched and blistered casket, and the little form that had been convulsed with agony for hours, that to attendants seemed lengthened into days became still. The grief of the parents on being told their child was dead, was inconsolable, but perhaps not unmingled with a feeling that the little one’s agony was ended.
Also - in the same paper --
SCALDED TO DEATH. An Account of the Terrible Death of Nic Schroeder’s Little Boy. The gentleman who furnished us the particulars of the death of N. Schroeder’s little boy, published in yesterday morning’s Sentinel, obtained his information from another man who claimed to understand the full particulars. After passing through so many hands the particulars reached our reported in a somewhat distorted shape, although the statement was in main true, as will be seen by the following communication received at this office:
The three year old boy of Nic Schroeder while eating his dinner Monday was most terribly burned by his brother upsetting the coffee pot, and spilling the contents over the little boy. Through the effect of the burn, the skin was removed from just below the ribs down to his feet. Although medical aid was summoned at once, the little sufferer seemed to be doing well during the night, he was taken with convulsions Wednesday morning, dying a few hours after, at about 10 o’clock in the forenoon. Mr. Schroeder lives at Oyens, near the depot. Le Mars Weekly Sentinel, Thursday, September 13, 1883, page 3, column 3