Womeldorf, Minnie 1894 - 1915
WOMELDORF
Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 3/18/2025 at 10:57:57
Source: Decorah Republican Feb, 25, 1915, P2 C5
A DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.
Minnie Womeldorf is Killed Saturday Night When Thrown Off of a ride in Glenwood Township.
Last Saturday night the young people living down near the Drake school house held a basket sociable in the school building. The evening was passed as usual at such occasions and when the Sunday hour approached the company broke up and they started for their homes. Miss Minnie Womeldorf was riding with Albert Lien and as they were crossing the Stewart bridge about a mile north of the school house the horse either stumbled or was choken some way so he fell off of the last approach of the bridge into the gully below, a distance of ten or more feet. The falling of the horse took the cutter also and Miss Womeldorf was thrown about fourteen feet, striking with her right side on an old pile that had been cut and left with a pointed top. Miss Womeldorf did not know she was seriously hurt for her first question was “Is the horse hurt?” When asked if she had been injured she replied “No, I am all right.” Mr. Lien had a flashlight and when it disclosed that she was very palid he questioned her more closely only to be reassured by her answer. She seemed to realize suddenly that she was badly injured for she said, “It can’t end like this. I can’t die here.” Mr. Lien called for help which came quickly and Miss Womeldorf was carried to Bert Stewart’s home which was only a short distance away. When they reached the home life was practically extinct as she was known to breathe only once or twice. Dr. Barfoot was sent for but when he arrived he could do nothing. He found that her right side under the arm had been torn open and the point of the pile had entered the body sufficiently to puncture one of the lungs, and several ribs were crushed. Miss Womeldorf had just grown into womanhood. She was a genial young lady, a favorite, and her demise will be sadly regretted by a large number of friends. To her family the sympathy of a host of friends is extended.
The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon at two o’clock at the Freeport church, Rev. O. E. Schmidt officiating, and interment was made in the church yard cemetery.Transcriber’s Note: Find a Grave shows she was born Sept. 24, 1894 and died Feb. 21, 1915. She is buried in the Freeport Cemetery.
Winneshiek Obituaries maintained by John Schulte.
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