The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-09-06
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Henry Kaiser of Delhi Victim
of Probable Misstep
Last Thursday.

The tragic death last Thursday of
Henry Kaiser, son of Herman Kaiser
of this city, elected general SYM
pathy here for the striker parents
and the widow so early bereaved of
a devoted husband. The long funer-
al train from Delhi and the immense
throng which yesterday overfowed
the Lutheran church in this city, in
which the funeral service was con-
Quoted. bore mute testimony to the
sympathy felt for the stricken rela-
tives. Rev. Paustian, whose minis
trations here had been appreciated
by the deceased for some time be-
fore Mr.. Paustian's departure for
his present pastorate, conducted the
last sad rites at the request of the
family of the deceased.
The details of the accident given
below were reported by the Belview
Independent:
According to information cleaned
from those connected with the
Kaiser threshing machine it appears
that the rig was being moved from
the Boehm farm eastward to the
McDougalI farm. That when they
reached the west line of the Peter
Mckay farm they stopped and Henry
Kaiser assisted in pumping the tank
of water to the water tender of the
engine. The machine then started
again and Mr.. Kaiser was seen at
tempting to cover a water key used
for drinking water for the crew
located on a platform built over the
tongue Of the separator. Presently
John Kaiser, who was running the
engine, heard his brother yell and
as hastily as possible stopped the en-
CINE and ran back to see what was
the trouble and was Mortified to find
the front wheel of the separator
standing squarely on his brothers.
head. He started the engine enough
to allow them to release the victim
and he then rolled the body oyer
only to find that life was extinct.
Just exactly how Mr.. Kaiser got
caught will never be known but
suffice it to say that the front wheel
of the separator caught him in such
fashion that it ran the entire length
of his body and crushed his head to
d pulp forcing the brains out of his
nose dmouth and onto the ground.
Both Kaiser brothers are ex-
perienced threshers and have had
the reputation of being among
the best in the country which will
never be explained how he came to
be caught as he was known as a
careful man. No blame whatever
can be attached to anyone as it was
purely accidental and Coroner AID
rich decided that no inquest was
needed as the facts plainly showed
this to be the fact.
Upon Peter Mckay fell the pain
full duty of notifying the aged par
ents at Redwood Falls and the SO
suddenly bereaved wife at home
wholly unsuspecting of the disaster
which had fallen to her husbands
lot.
q AS soon as possible the father,
Herman Kaiser, arrived from Red
wood Falls in an auto and his grief
was most pitiful to behold as was
that of the wife who arrived a few
minutes later than the father. Plen-
ty of old tried and true neighbors
were there to offer consolation and
assista nee but there was little to be
done.
Henry Kaiser was about IS years
old and was married in Dec. 1908,
to Miss Martha Huhnerkoch who
survives him, besides Mr.. and Mrs.
Herman Kaiser, his father and moth
er, his brother John and two sisters.
Henry Kaiser was good man.
an industrious worker, a man of
integrity and honor, a dutiful son,
kind husband and that he was
thus cut off in the prime of a useful
life, in the flower of his manhood,
seems too cruel"