16 Months Old Child Killed Near Grimms
Daniel Welch Is Fatally Hurt When Run Over By Milk Truck
Daniel Welch, 16 month old son of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Welch, was killed instantly at 9:45 am today at the home of his parents, on half mile south of Grimms, when he was run over by a milk truck driven by Norman Reach, 18, of Reedsville.
The child apparently wandered in front of the truck while it was loading milk alongside the barn and was run over by the right front wheel when the truck started to leave. The child's body was found by the father, who was working on a tractor nearby, after the truck was out of the yard.
Driver Unaware Of Mishap
Reach did not know that the truck he was driving had killed the child until he was contacted by the authorities at the White House Milk plant in this city shortly after 10:15 am.
Dr. Theodore Teligen, county coroner, said the child's head and body were crushed by the right front wheel of the truck. He said early this afternoon that he had not yet conferred with District Attorney John Danielson but he added that he thought there would not be an inquest.
The body was taken to the Watt funeral home in Maple Grove where it may be viewed tonight and funeral services will be held at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Maple Grove on Thursday at 9 am. Interment will be in the church cemetery.
Reach told Sheriff Elmer Bergner that he stopped at the Welch home with the milk truck owned by Mrs. Henry Sheahan, Maple Grove, backed the truck up to the barn, which is about 50 feet from the house and talked to the father of the child for a few minutes. He then loaded four cans of milk on the truck from the left, jumped into the cab and drove away.
Blood On Wheel
The right front wheel of the truck was found to have blood on it and there was a little on the right rear wheel, but authorities believed that only the front wheel passed over the child.
"I never saw the child while I was at the Welch home this morning," Reach told the sheriff, "I had seen him on one or two other occasions when he was with his mother."
The Welch home is about a half mile south of the old quarry at Grimms. The house and the barn are about the same distance from the road and the barn is about 50 feet north of the house. Sheriff Elmer Bergner said. The truck backed up a slight incline to the barn. The father was working on a tractor some distance behind the truck. Sheriff Bergner and County Traffic Officer Henry Pleuss rushed to the scene of the mishap as soon as they were informed of it and found Coroner Theodore Teitgen already there. Daniel was the only child of the Welches.
Manitowoc Herald-Times; Wednesday 2 Sept 1942; p. 2, c. 1
Daniel Welch Is Fatally Hurt When Run Over By Milk Truck
Daniel Welch, 16 month old son of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Welch, was killed instantly at 9:45 am today at the home of his parents, on half mile south of Grimms, when he was run over by a milk truck driven by Norman Reach, 18, of Reedsville.
The child apparently wandered in front of the truck while it was loading milk alongside the barn and was run over by the right front wheel when the truck started to leave. The child's body was found by the father, who was working on a tractor nearby, after the truck was out of the yard.
Driver Unaware Of Mishap
Reach did not know that the truck he was driving had killed the child until he was contacted by the authorities at the White House Milk plant in this city shortly after 10:15 am.
Dr. Theodore Teligen, county coroner, said the child's head and body were crushed by the right front wheel of the truck. He said early this afternoon that he had not yet conferred with District Attorney John Danielson but he added that he thought there would not be an inquest.
The body was taken to the Watt funeral home in Maple Grove where it may be viewed tonight and funeral services will be held at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Maple Grove on Thursday at 9 am. Interment will be in the church cemetery.
Reach told Sheriff Elmer Bergner that he stopped at the Welch home with the milk truck owned by Mrs. Henry Sheahan, Maple Grove, backed the truck up to the barn, which is about 50 feet from the house and talked to the father of the child for a few minutes. He then loaded four cans of milk on the truck from the left, jumped into the cab and drove away.
Blood On Wheel
The right front wheel of the truck was found to have blood on it and there was a little on the right rear wheel, but authorities believed that only the front wheel passed over the child.
"I never saw the child while I was at the Welch home this morning," Reach told the sheriff, "I had seen him on one or two other occasions when he was with his mother."
The Welch home is about a half mile south of the old quarry at Grimms. The house and the barn are about the same distance from the road and the barn is about 50 feet north of the house. Sheriff Elmer Bergner said. The truck backed up a slight incline to the barn. The father was working on a tractor some distance behind the truck. Sheriff Bergner and County Traffic Officer Henry Pleuss rushed to the scene of the mishap as soon as they were informed of it and found Coroner Theodore Teitgen already there. Daniel was the only child of the Welches.
Manitowoc Herald-Times; Wednesday 2 Sept 1942; p. 2, c. 1
16 Months Old Child Killed Near Grimms
Daniel Welch Is Fatally Hurt When Run Over By Milk Truck
Daniel Welch, 16 month old son of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Welch, was killed instantly at 9:45 am today at the home of his parents, on half mile south of Grimms, when he was run over by a milk truck driven by Norman Reach, 18, of Reedsville.
The child apparently wandered in front of the truck while it was loading milk alongside the barn and was run over by the right front wheel when the truck started to leave. The child's body was found by the father, who was working on a tractor nearby, after the truck was out of the yard.
Driver Unaware Of Mishap
Reach did not know that the truck he was driving had killed the child until he was contacted by the authorities at the White House Milk plant in this city shortly after 10:15 am.
Dr. Theodore Teligen, county coroner, said the child's head and body were crushed by the right front wheel of the truck. He said early this afternoon that he had not yet conferred with District Attorney John Danielson but he added that he thought there would not be an inquest.
The body was taken to the Watt funeral home in Maple Grove where it may be viewed tonight and funeral services will be held at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Maple Grove on Thursday at 9 am. Interment will be in the church cemetery.
Reach told Sheriff Elmer Bergner that he stopped at the Welch home with the milk truck owned by Mrs. Henry Sheahan, Maple Grove, backed the truck up to the barn, which is about 50 feet from the house and talked to the father of the child for a few minutes. He then loaded four cans of milk on the truck from the left, jumped into the cab and drove away.
Blood On Wheel
The right front wheel of the truck was found to have blood on it and there was a little on the right rear wheel, but authorities believed that only the front wheel passed over the child.
"I never saw the child while I was at the Welch home this morning," Reach told the sheriff, "I had seen him on one or two other occasions when he was with his mother."
The Welch home is about a half mile south of the old quarry at Grimms. The house and the barn are about the same distance from the road and the barn is about 50 feet north of the house. Sheriff Elmer Bergner said. The truck backed up a slight incline to the barn. The father was working on a tractor some distance behind the truck. Sheriff Bergner and County Traffic Officer Henry Pleuss rushed to the scene of the mishap as soon as they were informed of it and found Coroner Theodore Teitgen already there. Daniel was the only child of the Welches.
Manitowoc Herald-Times; Wednesday 2 Sept 1942; p. 2, c. 1
Daniel Welch Is Fatally Hurt When Run Over By Milk Truck
Daniel Welch, 16 month old son of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Welch, was killed instantly at 9:45 am today at the home of his parents, on half mile south of Grimms, when he was run over by a milk truck driven by Norman Reach, 18, of Reedsville.
The child apparently wandered in front of the truck while it was loading milk alongside the barn and was run over by the right front wheel when the truck started to leave. The child's body was found by the father, who was working on a tractor nearby, after the truck was out of the yard.
Driver Unaware Of Mishap
Reach did not know that the truck he was driving had killed the child until he was contacted by the authorities at the White House Milk plant in this city shortly after 10:15 am.
Dr. Theodore Teligen, county coroner, said the child's head and body were crushed by the right front wheel of the truck. He said early this afternoon that he had not yet conferred with District Attorney John Danielson but he added that he thought there would not be an inquest.
The body was taken to the Watt funeral home in Maple Grove where it may be viewed tonight and funeral services will be held at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Maple Grove on Thursday at 9 am. Interment will be in the church cemetery.
Reach told Sheriff Elmer Bergner that he stopped at the Welch home with the milk truck owned by Mrs. Henry Sheahan, Maple Grove, backed the truck up to the barn, which is about 50 feet from the house and talked to the father of the child for a few minutes. He then loaded four cans of milk on the truck from the left, jumped into the cab and drove away.
Blood On Wheel
The right front wheel of the truck was found to have blood on it and there was a little on the right rear wheel, but authorities believed that only the front wheel passed over the child.
"I never saw the child while I was at the Welch home this morning," Reach told the sheriff, "I had seen him on one or two other occasions when he was with his mother."
The Welch home is about a half mile south of the old quarry at Grimms. The house and the barn are about the same distance from the road and the barn is about 50 feet north of the house. Sheriff Elmer Bergner said. The truck backed up a slight incline to the barn. The father was working on a tractor some distance behind the truck. Sheriff Bergner and County Traffic Officer Henry Pleuss rushed to the scene of the mishap as soon as they were informed of it and found Coroner Theodore Teitgen already there. Daniel was the only child of the Welches.
Manitowoc Herald-Times; Wednesday 2 Sept 1942; p. 2, c. 1
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