New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-02-08
FALLS DEAD CALLING DOCTOR
r. Hellriegel Is Stricken While at
Telephone.
Receiver Falls From Fingers and
He Drops to Floor.
Paralysis of Heart Claims Victim
Unexpectedly.

In the very act of calling physician
over the telephone Sunday afternoon,
Richard Hellriegel, proprietor of a
piano and musical instrument store on
Center street, dropped dead from
paralysis of the heart. He was so
years old.
He had been afflicted with a stomach
disease for several years, but his con-
dition had not been such as to keep
him in doors until four weeks ago. He
had not been out of the house since
then but had never called a physician,
using remedies of his own. Sunday
afternoon Mr.. Hellriegel must have
realized that his condition was getting
critical, for stepping to the telephone
he rang up Central and took down the
receiver to summon medical aid
Before the operator had time to ask
his number, the receiver fell from the
limp hand and Mr.. Hellriegel toppled
backward onto the floor. Members of
his family were near and carried him
into the sitting room where they laid
him down in what they thought was a
| faint, then summoned DR.. Reineke. In
less than three minutes the physician
was at the side of the PROSTATE man,
but life was extinct.
PHYSICIAN s EFFORTS IN VAIN.
Believing he was dead, but unwill-
ing to let any chance go by of bring
ing back the spark of life if it could be
done, the doctor gave q stimulating
injection and used artificial respiration;
but without result.
The sudden death came as an almost
prostrating shock to his family, be-
cause of it's unaxpectedness. They
knew that Mr.. Hellriegel was in poor
health, but did not realize that even a
critical condition, much less death. was
near.
i The funeral services will be held al
the house on Center street this after.
) noon and villa be simple.
i Mr.. Hellriegel had been a resident
of New Ulm since 1901, only, but hi
came to Minnesota ia 1856, moving witt
his parents from Utica, n. Y, the cit,
| OF his birth. The family settled in Jht
4 village of Chaska, Carver county, ant
there the boy grew into manhood.
When the war broke out, Mr.
Hellriegel enlisted in the Fifth low;
regiment, Brackets battalion. Fl,
never saw service on eastern battle
| fields, however, as Lincoln sent hi
1 regiment into the western states tx
| quell the Indians, and he was engaged
in border warfare until mustered out
THIRTY-FoUR YEARS IN. BUSINESS.
| Thirty-four years ago Mr.. Hellriege
entered the piano and musical instru
! ment business in Chaska and has beel
actively engaged in this line of worl
since.
In 1883 he married a young lad
from New Ulm, Miss Anna Bogen, an
it was because of her desire to iv
again in her home town that he move
TO this city four years ago. He ha
| done a prosperous business here an
his never regretted the change.
i Surviving are the widow and tw
daughters, Misses Meta and Hilds
| the latter still child. A brother
/ John Hellriegel of Chaska, is the onl
other living relative. He is here toda
4 for the funeral.
1 Mr.. Hellriegel carried no life i,
! surance and was member of d
I fraternal society, neither did /
] affiliate with any church.