Wednesday, 6 June 1923, page 2
ALLIANCE FARMER MEETS DEATH BY ELECTROCUTION
Alliance, Neb., June 5 - Fred Schwaderer, Jr., 30, a Box Butte county farmer, was instantly killed and a dozen other persons narrowly escaped electrocution when Schwaderer grasped a heavy wire cable used to connect hitching posts at Fourth street and Laramie avenue at 6:30 o'clock Tuesday evening. The cable had been connected to a ground wire running from the top of a pole carrying electric feed wires, charged with twenty-three hundred volts. [Omitted here are more details of the lay-out of the cable ] ... The victim was thrown into the air by the shock and fell on his face, the fall breaking his hold on the cable, his hand being burned to the bone. . .
Schwaderer is survived by his father, mother and eight brothers. An inquest will be held by county authorities Wednesday morning.
Wednesday, 6 June 1923, page 2
ALLIANCE FARMER MEETS DEATH BY ELECTROCUTION
Alliance, Neb., June 5 - Fred Schwaderer, Jr., 30, a Box Butte county farmer, was instantly killed and a dozen other persons narrowly escaped electrocution when Schwaderer grasped a heavy wire cable used to connect hitching posts at Fourth street and Laramie avenue at 6:30 o'clock Tuesday evening. The cable had been connected to a ground wire running from the top of a pole carrying electric feed wires, charged with twenty-three hundred volts. [Omitted here are more details of the lay-out of the cable ] ... The victim was thrown into the air by the shock and fell on his face, the fall breaking his hold on the cable, his hand being burned to the bone. . .
Schwaderer is survived by his father, mother and eight brothers. An inquest will be held by county authorities Wednesday morning.
Family Members
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Christina Schwaderer Fuerniss
1887–1981
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George Frederick Schwaderer
1888–1959
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Gottlieb Schwaderer
1892–1968
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Edward Schwaderer
1894–1965
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John Schwaderer
1895–1973
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Gotthilf Schwaderer
1897–1980
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Rebecca Freda Schwaderer Noetzelmann
1899–1930
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Emil Schwaderer
1903–1984
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Anna M. Schwaderer Hashman
1904–2001
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Albert Walter Schwaderer
1906–1979
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Martha E. Schwaderer Larson
1908–1980
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Otto M. Schwaderer
1911–1989
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