Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-08-11
ACCIDENTAL DEATH
Roy Lawrence Bauske Meets
With Fatal Accident Sunday
FALLS INTO GASOLINE TANK
Little Fellow Drops His Hat in
Gasoline Tank on Flat Car
and Loses His Life in
Attempting to Get it.

Attempting to Get it.
The community was shocked Sunday
afternoon when the news was brought
up town from the station that Roy
Lawrence Bauske had just been taken
out of gasoline car or tank and that
life was extinct.
The story as we gathered it from the
boys father, Gust C. Bauske, is as
follows: There had been a shortage of
gasoline in the city for some time and
car arrived Saturday night and Mr..
Bauske was employed to pump it out
Sunday. Gust went over to the rail
road yards in the morning and began
his work. Two of his little boys, Roy
and Alonzo, accompanied him, and
while he was working, were playing
around the car. About noon Mrs.
Bauske came over and announced that
dinner was ready. Gust closed the top
of the tank and in company with his
wife and the boys went home to din
ner. The little boys finished their din
ner first and asked their father for
some money to get some ice cream and
received ten cents to get ice cream
cones. Roy then asked his father for
the key to the oil house saying that he
and Alonzo would go in there in the
shade and eat the ice cream. The
father gave them the key and thought
nothing of it. After Gust had finished
his dinner he got interested in news
paper and sat down to read for while.
All that is known of what happened
after the children left their home is
learned from Alonzo, the five-year-old
brother. He says that they went up
town, got the ice cream and came down
to the oil house and ate the cones.
Then Roy went up on top of the tank
and looked in and in some manner his
hat dropped off and into the tank. Roy
started down after it. He got down
about three steps when he let loose OF
the ladder and fell to the bottom.
Alonzo then tried to go down and get
his brother, but after going down few
steps turned around and assembled the
ladder and started for home again cry
ing for help. Mrs. Bauske was in the
yard. She heard the little fellows
cries and rushed to the car and the TOP
of the tank. Looking in she saw her
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cowboy who was passing, no one seems
to know who he was, heard her cries
and went to her assistance. He tried
to get the boy out with pole with a
nail in the end of it. Swan Nelson was
attracted by the calls for help and
arrived at this time. He called to the
cowboy to go in ad get the lad, and the
man went in and brought the boy to
the top of the tank. Mr.. Bauske ha6
had heard the news and reached the tor
of the car just as the little fellow was
handed out and took him and laid him
on the grass. Chief of Police Martin
coming on the scene took the boy tc
the shade and on the platform of Pot,
ter, Garrick & Potter's elevator. DR..
Herman had been hastily summoned
and went to work Immediately with
artificial respiration to recusitate the
boy if possible and was assisted by H.
Tegtmeier. The most heroic treatment
was used but the boys life was rome.
There was no postmortem exami-
nation held but we are informed that il
is the belief of the physicians that the
little fellow was overcome by the
gases in the tank and his heart action
was paralyzed and he was practically
dead when he fell from the ladder.
Roy Lawrence Bauske was born to
Mr.. and Mrs. Gust, c. Bauske, in the
City of Webster, S. D., Nov. 9, 1901,
and was their oldest child. He was a
bright accommodating little fellow and
very much liked by all who saw him
quite frequently with his father on the
dray. The funeral took place Sunday
from the German Friedens church.
The floral tributes were many and
beautiful. Rev. E. c. H. Peithmann
preached very appropriate sermon.
Interment took place in Webster GENE
terry. The bereaved family, parents,
three brothers and two sisters, have
the deepest sympathy of all in the
terrible bereavement which has befallen
them.