(first part of story, Second part in Lydia's page)
KILLED BY DYNAMITE
AN ENTIRE FAMILY DESTROYED
A telephone message was received in this city from Forest Junction, on Thursday morning, informing our citizens of a terrible accident which occurred in Brillion town, two and one-half miles northwest of that village and resulted in the death of an entire family consisting of William Broehm Sr., aged 26 years, Lydia Broehm, his wife aged 24 years, and three children, William aged 5, Walter aged 3 and Alfred aged 2, also William Steffens, aged 8 years, a brother of Mrs. Broehm.
A Times reporter was immediately dispatched to the scene of the catastrophy and the horror and desolation there, is indeed, hard to describe. Stretched upon the floor of a large frame barn where they had been carried from amidst the wreckage of what was once their home, where lying father, mother, children and brother.
The house was a beautiful two story building, the west portion of which was used as a dining room and kitchen and it was that part of the building that was occupied by the family when the terrible accident took place. The sight here was appalling. The interior and exterior of the west portion of the building is a mass of wreckage in which household furniture, plaster, lath and timber are intermingled. The east half of the building also was greatly damaged and rent with holes. Every window in the structure was shattered and the front porch also completely detatched from the building.
William Broehm was the owner of eighty acres of land and a few days ago purchased ten sticks of dynamite to use in blasting stumps. On Wednesday, assisted b y his brother, August, he used seven of the ten sticks and the remaining three he stored away in an upper room in the west part of his residence, directly over the kitchen. Thursday morning he and his family arose, did their morning work and Mr. Broehm visited his father. He returned to his home about eight o’clock and with all the members of his family sat down to eat breakfast. Just about this time, Gotlieb Stanelle, a neighbor who lives across the road from the Broehm farm, heard a terrific explosion and upon discovering its whereabouts hastened to the assistance of the unfortunates. Upon his arrival he found Mrs. Broehm, Willie Steffens and one of the younger children in a dying condition and so badly injured that they were unable to give a statement of what had occurred. They expired a few seconds later. The other three members of the family were dead.
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KILLED BY DYNAMITE
AN ENTIRE FAMILY DESTROYED
A telephone message was received in this city from Forest Junction, on Thursday morning, informing our citizens of a terrible accident which occurred in Brillion town, two and one-half miles northwest of that village and resulted in the death of an entire family consisting of William Broehm Sr., aged 26 years, Lydia Broehm, his wife aged 24 years, and three children, William aged 5, Walter aged 3 and Alfred aged 2, also William Steffens, aged 8 years, a brother of Mrs. Broehm.
A Times reporter was immediately dispatched to the scene of the catastrophy and the horror and desolation there, is indeed, hard to describe. Stretched upon the floor of a large frame barn where they had been carried from amidst the wreckage of what was once their home, where lying father, mother, children and brother.
The house was a beautiful two story building, the west portion of which was used as a dining room and kitchen and it was that part of the building that was occupied by the family when the terrible accident took place. The sight here was appalling. The interior and exterior of the west portion of the building is a mass of wreckage in which household furniture, plaster, lath and timber are intermingled. The east half of the building also was greatly damaged and rent with holes. Every window in the structure was shattered and the front porch also completely detatched from the building.
William Broehm was the owner of eighty acres of land and a few days ago purchased ten sticks of dynamite to use in blasting stumps. On Wednesday, assisted b y his brother, August, he used seven of the ten sticks and the remaining three he stored away in an upper room in the west part of his residence, directly over the kitchen. Thursday morning he and his family arose, did their morning work and Mr. Broehm visited his father. He returned to his home about eight o’clock and with all the members of his family sat down to eat breakfast. Just about this time, Gotlieb Stanelle, a neighbor who lives across the road from the Broehm farm, heard a terrific explosion and upon discovering its whereabouts hastened to the assistance of the unfortunates. Upon his arrival he found Mrs. Broehm, Willie Steffens and one of the younger children in a dying condition and so badly injured that they were unable to give a statement of what had occurred. They expired a few seconds later. The other three members of the family were dead.
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(first part of story, Second part in Lydia's page)
KILLED BY DYNAMITE
AN ENTIRE FAMILY DESTROYED
A telephone message was received in this city from Forest Junction, on Thursday morning, informing our citizens of a terrible accident which occurred in Brillion town, two and one-half miles northwest of that village and resulted in the death of an entire family consisting of William Broehm Sr., aged 26 years, Lydia Broehm, his wife aged 24 years, and three children, William aged 5, Walter aged 3 and Alfred aged 2, also William Steffens, aged 8 years, a brother of Mrs. Broehm.
A Times reporter was immediately dispatched to the scene of the catastrophy and the horror and desolation there, is indeed, hard to describe. Stretched upon the floor of a large frame barn where they had been carried from amidst the wreckage of what was once their home, where lying father, mother, children and brother.
The house was a beautiful two story building, the west portion of which was used as a dining room and kitchen and it was that part of the building that was occupied by the family when the terrible accident took place. The sight here was appalling. The interior and exterior of the west portion of the building is a mass of wreckage in which household furniture, plaster, lath and timber are intermingled. The east half of the building also was greatly damaged and rent with holes. Every window in the structure was shattered and the front porch also completely detatched from the building.
William Broehm was the owner of eighty acres of land and a few days ago purchased ten sticks of dynamite to use in blasting stumps. On Wednesday, assisted b y his brother, August, he used seven of the ten sticks and the remaining three he stored away in an upper room in the west part of his residence, directly over the kitchen. Thursday morning he and his family arose, did their morning work and Mr. Broehm visited his father. He returned to his home about eight o’clock and with all the members of his family sat down to eat breakfast. Just about this time, Gotlieb Stanelle, a neighbor who lives across the road from the Broehm farm, heard a terrific explosion and upon discovering its whereabouts hastened to the assistance of the unfortunates. Upon his arrival he found Mrs. Broehm, Willie Steffens and one of the younger children in a dying condition and so badly injured that they were unable to give a statement of what had occurred. They expired a few seconds later. The other three members of the family were dead.
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KILLED BY DYNAMITE
AN ENTIRE FAMILY DESTROYED
A telephone message was received in this city from Forest Junction, on Thursday morning, informing our citizens of a terrible accident which occurred in Brillion town, two and one-half miles northwest of that village and resulted in the death of an entire family consisting of William Broehm Sr., aged 26 years, Lydia Broehm, his wife aged 24 years, and three children, William aged 5, Walter aged 3 and Alfred aged 2, also William Steffens, aged 8 years, a brother of Mrs. Broehm.
A Times reporter was immediately dispatched to the scene of the catastrophy and the horror and desolation there, is indeed, hard to describe. Stretched upon the floor of a large frame barn where they had been carried from amidst the wreckage of what was once their home, where lying father, mother, children and brother.
The house was a beautiful two story building, the west portion of which was used as a dining room and kitchen and it was that part of the building that was occupied by the family when the terrible accident took place. The sight here was appalling. The interior and exterior of the west portion of the building is a mass of wreckage in which household furniture, plaster, lath and timber are intermingled. The east half of the building also was greatly damaged and rent with holes. Every window in the structure was shattered and the front porch also completely detatched from the building.
William Broehm was the owner of eighty acres of land and a few days ago purchased ten sticks of dynamite to use in blasting stumps. On Wednesday, assisted b y his brother, August, he used seven of the ten sticks and the remaining three he stored away in an upper room in the west part of his residence, directly over the kitchen. Thursday morning he and his family arose, did their morning work and Mr. Broehm visited his father. He returned to his home about eight o’clock and with all the members of his family sat down to eat breakfast. Just about this time, Gotlieb Stanelle, a neighbor who lives across the road from the Broehm farm, heard a terrific explosion and upon discovering its whereabouts hastened to the assistance of the unfortunates. Upon his arrival he found Mrs. Broehm, Willie Steffens and one of the younger children in a dying condition and so badly injured that they were unable to give a statement of what had occurred. They expired a few seconds later. The other three members of the family were dead.
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