Accidental Deaths in Shoshone County
Believe Skeleton That of Rathjen
WALLACE, Idaho, Sept. 4 - (Special) - J.J. Rathjen was the name of the
Wallace man who disappeared while on a hunting trip in the Fourth of
July canyon in 1914 or 1915 and whose skeleton is believed to have been
found on Copper Mountain, southeast of Coeur d'Alene last week.
Rathjen disappeared on Thanksgiving day in either 1914 or 1915 when he
went into the hills on a deer hunting trip. He was with a man named
Frank Keller from whom he became separated in the hills.
Source: Spokane Daily Chronicle, September 4, 1934
Submitted and transcribed by Sandra Davis |
Falling Building Kills Woman
A Wallace dispatch says: Mrs. William Settlemeyer was crushed to
death Wednesday by the collapse of a woodshed at her home in Nine Mile
canyon in this city from the weight of snow on the roof. Her
husband, a laboring man, was away at work cutting wood near Osburn. Her
children, a boy and a girl, coming home from school, discovered their
mother missing, and fearing she was in the wrecked building alarmed the
neighbors, who located her under the debris. Her body was still warm,
but life was extinct.
It is supposed that Mrs. Settlemeyer had gone to the shed for fuel and
was caught in the shed as it collapsed. The position of the debris
shows the roof fell in and the sides followed, piling more weight upon
the body of the woman. Neighbors passing about 1 o'clock noticed the
fallen shed, but did not connect with the tragedy revealed by later
search.
Source: Idaho Statesman, February 18, 1911
Submitted and transcribed by Sandra Davis |
YOUNG WOODSMAN LOSES HIS LIFE IN THE NORTH
Sent Sister Christmas Present and Freezes to Death on Way Back to Camp
A determination to send his sister in Salt Lake a Christmas present is
largely responsible for the death of Fred Gehrke, the young woodsman,
frozen to death near the McGoldrick Lumber company's Slate creek camp,
according to local authorities.
Last Saturday Gehrke had his first chance to make his Christmas
purchases and started for Wallace on a 13-mile trip through three feet
of snow. He mailed her a money order and then started on his 13-mile
return trip without snow shoes, and on arriving in the company's first
camp was exhausted.
After a short rest he decided to go to his home camp, a half mile
further on, and without a lantern he set out in the blizzard, lost his
way and perished.
Source: Idaho Statesman, December 30, 1911
Submitted and transcribed by Sandra Davis |
CHOKED TO DEATH WHILE AT SUPPER
Edward Short, Coeur d'Alene Mining Man, Meets Peculiar Death at Saltese, Mont., Boarding House
While seated at a table eating his dinner last night in a boarding
house at Saltese, Mont., Edward Short, a mining man of the Coeur
d'Alenes, choked upon a piece of meat he was endeavoring to swallow and
died within a few minutes while friends were working over him
endeavoring to render him some assistance. They were unable to remove
the obstruction, which shut off his breath.
Mr. Short had lived in the Coeur d'Alenes for a number of years and was
well known. He was 40 years of age and unmarried. He will be buried in
Wallace.
Source: Idaho Statesman, September 14, 1904
Submitted and transcribed by Sandra Davis |
At Osburn, Idaho,
yesterday the body of Mrs. Philip Harrington was found by Ben Hill, one
of the contractors for building roads to some of the mines. She was
about fifty yards from her house and her face was under water. She was
subject to epileptic fits and the verdict is accidental drowning,
although there are suspicions of foul play.
Source: Spokane Daily Chronicle, April 30, 1892
Submitted by Robyn Greenlund
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