Wright County, Minnesota
Obituaries

Carl Fosberg
Carl J. Fosberg, a young man from Rockford, Minn., enroute to Lincoln, met death from asphyxiation at the State hotel, Omaha, some time Saturday night or Sunday. He registered at the hotel Saturday morning and went to his room about 10 o'clock. Some time along about midnight the night clerk, George DeFrance, heard groans issuing from the room, but did not think that anything serious was the matter and no more attention was paid to it until noon Sunday, when a chambermaid smelled gas and when the door was opened Fosberg was dead in his bed. He had blown out the gas. Letters in his valise disclosed the fact that his wife lives in Rockford, Minn., and that he has relatives named O.A. Sidwell at Holdredge and Johnson, at Kearney. The remains were turned over to the coroner and the relatives notified. [Jefferson County Journal, Fairbury Nebraska, November 27, 1897 - Submitted by Kristin Vaughn] [Note: It seems that part of Rockford is in Hennepin Co. and part of it in Wright Co.]

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