New Ulm review., 1895-10-16
] MRS. FRITsCHE KILLED.
The Aged Lady is Struck by q Locomotive
and Killed Instantly.
The Terrible Accident Occurred Below the
Depot Yesterday Morning.

e Inc terrible Accident Occurred Below the
Depot Yesterday Morning
The Deceased Was Just Eighty Years of
| Age Last Week.
Mrs. Fredericka Fritsche, mother Of
Fred and Ernst Fritsche and Mrs. John
Hauenstein and Mrs. Strasser, was killed
by q locomotive on the railroad tracks
below the depot yesterday morning. a
Review reporter visited the scene Of the
accident q few minutes after and learned
the following PARTICULARS:
The aged LADY had visited her son.
Ernst, in the morning, as was her daily.
custom, and was returning home about
ten o'clock. She passed through the
railroad fence and crossed the track
about three hundred feet below the en-
g1ne house. just as she was doing this
the switch engine was backing into town
from the Courtland hill, and the woman
was struck by the rear end of the locomo-
tive and thrown about fifteen feet from
the track. The track at this point is at
least eight feet above the ground and
neither the engineer nor fireman saw any
thing of her until after the accident
Whether she was walking along the track
or was just making an effort to cross it
is therefore Il question. The station
agent was informed at once, of course,
of what had happened, and Mr.. Heide.
man telephoned for the company's sur
geon, DR.. Stricken. He arrived in a.
short while, and then it was first ascer-
tanned that the body was that of Mrs.
Fritsche. Her person was not mangled
much and it is quite evident that her
death was instantaneous.
The body was removed to the home of
MIR. Strasser where she has been living.
Whether an inquest will be held we can
not say at this writing. l-"..
The deceased was woman of wonder
full endurance and it was her practice
daily to take long walks alone, Last
week she celebrated her eightieth birth
day and seemed as lively as most people
at fifty. % =
T. She was the mother of six children.
now living, four of whom reside in New
Ulm or the Immediate vicinity.
If anybody thinks Jim Hill has given
| up all idea of obtaining control Of the
Northern Pacific system, they don't
known Jim Hill, that's all. Jim Hill
never gives up any cherished object that
money or strategy may accomplish. He
has started in to do away with danger
Gus rival by the method of absorption.
He desires to have the Great Northern
| and Northern Pacific, like the scriptural
lion and lamb, lie down together, but he
proposes to have the Northern Pacific
lamb, on the inside of the Great North
ern lion. If he strikes court that is alb.
solutely beyond the power of his meth
DDS of reasoning, watch him as he trans
fers his case to another court. Jim is
subtle, very, and what he purposes, that
he performs. if it is at all possibility:
The only funny part of the whole bust
ness is that all men and newspapers Of
any influence in st. Paul to ady to him
and are trying hard to convince them
selves and the rest of the world that Jim
Hill is actually trying to benefit St. Paul,
and incidentally everybody else On earth
but himself, by this attempted consoli-
dation scheme. There are few people
however on earth that can't be made to
believe such rot, no not in a hundred
years. What Jim Hill is really after is
a coupe such as he made when he swiped
the old st. Paul and Pacific road from
the Dutch bondhold ders, through the me-
dium of one of those handy courts and
Iobl1ging Judges. What he wants is not
only to remove dangerous rival and
competitor, but at the same time to turn
q stream of coin into his own pockets
that shall give him that unlimited pow
or to which he aspires. Jim Hill, with
all of his millions, wants money just as
badly now as he dll few years ago
when he was trucking freight on the st.
Paul levee. The lust and thirst for gold
and the unlimited power which it brings
is the ruling passion with him and will
be strong till death. But is there no way
Ito curb such man when he deliberately
itreads on the rights of his fellow man2
There is. Only let those whose sworn
duty it is to protect the people and thel-
rights, be true to their trust, and the
power Of Jim Hill Of any other Of his
like to ride rough shod over them viii
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