Deprived of wife and child.
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Mr. Buschmann tragically loses his teenage wife and their young child. -- Both drowned in a washtub.
A strange and most unfortunate accident occurred in Canton on Sunday night. Namely, Barbara Buschmann, wife of Mr. George Buschmann, who is employed as a cellar boy at the National Brewery at Canton and lives at No. 305 O'Donnell Street, Canton, and their two-month-old child Johnnie, were all put in miserable circumstances by the mother's illness.
Mr. Buschmann and his wife, nee Rollwagen, were married fourteen months ago in Philadelphia, and the man had lucrative employment in a brewery there. However, about four months ago he lost his job with others and came to Baltimore, where about six weeks ago he managed to get employment at the National Brewery. He then allowed his wife, who had just given him twins, two handsome boys, to move to Baltimore as well. Here they rented a modest three-room apartment on the first floor of the above-named house, but soon after their arrival in Baltimore and the death two weeks ago of one of the twins, who was named George, the woman began to be ill and surprised her husband recently by suddenly falling to the floor in the middle of the dining room of her apartment and going into convulsions. Soon after, she fell out of her chair at dinner and got cramps again.
On Sunday evening Mr. Buschmann and his wife were enjoying themselves with their darling, two month old Johnnie, and around 9 o'clock in the evening, when Mr. Buschmann got tired, he went to bed on his wife's advice.
He fell asleep quickly in the front room of his apartment, especially since his wife had explained to him that she wanted to sit down on the stairs leading to the courtyard of the apartment and get some fresh air with her child. At the foot of the stairs there was a small washtub half filled with water, in which the woman wanted to soak the laundry in the morning.
Mr. Buschmann slept on peacefully and was not awoken by any noise until 2 o'clock yesterday morning when the guard at the National Brewery woke him to go to work. He woke up quickly and called his wife to bring him his work clothes. Since he received no answer when he called again, he went in search, and when he reached the stairs leading from the kitchen to the yard, he saw a terrible spectacle. His wife lay with the left side of the back of her head partly in the tub, while her feet were still on the stairs. In her left arm, which was in the tub, she held the child convulsively, which was completely covered by the water.
Horrified, Mr. Buschmann took the child out of the mother's arms and ran with him up to Mr. Johann Stumpf's family, who lived on the second floor of the house. He soon woke up, and together they picked up Mrs. Buschmann and brought her into the house, where they laid her on the sofa next to the child. Meanwhile, Doctors E.J. Williams and A. Sauer were summoned, but they could only declare that mother and child were dead.
The woman died of convulsions caused by intermittent fever and kidney disease, while the child drowned. Apparently the unfortunate woman must have had a fit while reaching down the stairs and fell into the tub with the child in her arms. Justice of the Peace Dorsey held an inquest yesterday and gave a verdict of accidental death.
Hundreds of people attended the funeral home yesterday afternoon. The mother lay in her silk wedding dress, and the child rested on her breast with folded hands.
The funeral is scheduled for 2 p.m. today at Mount Carmel Cemetery. Pastor P.A. Menzel from the 1st German United Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canton, who baptized the drowned child as well as his little brother, will officiate.
Translated from Der Deutsche Correspondent - Tuesday, August 13, 1895.
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Mr. Buschmann tragically loses his teenage wife and their young child. -- Both drowned in a washtub.
A strange and most unfortunate accident occurred in Canton on Sunday night. Namely, Barbara Buschmann, wife of Mr. George Buschmann, who is employed as a cellar boy at the National Brewery at Canton and lives at No. 305 O'Donnell Street, Canton, and their two-month-old child Johnnie, were all put in miserable circumstances by the mother's illness.
Mr. Buschmann and his wife, nee Rollwagen, were married fourteen months ago in Philadelphia, and the man had lucrative employment in a brewery there. However, about four months ago he lost his job with others and came to Baltimore, where about six weeks ago he managed to get employment at the National Brewery. He then allowed his wife, who had just given him twins, two handsome boys, to move to Baltimore as well. Here they rented a modest three-room apartment on the first floor of the above-named house, but soon after their arrival in Baltimore and the death two weeks ago of one of the twins, who was named George, the woman began to be ill and surprised her husband recently by suddenly falling to the floor in the middle of the dining room of her apartment and going into convulsions. Soon after, she fell out of her chair at dinner and got cramps again.
On Sunday evening Mr. Buschmann and his wife were enjoying themselves with their darling, two month old Johnnie, and around 9 o'clock in the evening, when Mr. Buschmann got tired, he went to bed on his wife's advice.
He fell asleep quickly in the front room of his apartment, especially since his wife had explained to him that she wanted to sit down on the stairs leading to the courtyard of the apartment and get some fresh air with her child. At the foot of the stairs there was a small washtub half filled with water, in which the woman wanted to soak the laundry in the morning.
Mr. Buschmann slept on peacefully and was not awoken by any noise until 2 o'clock yesterday morning when the guard at the National Brewery woke him to go to work. He woke up quickly and called his wife to bring him his work clothes. Since he received no answer when he called again, he went in search, and when he reached the stairs leading from the kitchen to the yard, he saw a terrible spectacle. His wife lay with the left side of the back of her head partly in the tub, while her feet were still on the stairs. In her left arm, which was in the tub, she held the child convulsively, which was completely covered by the water.
Horrified, Mr. Buschmann took the child out of the mother's arms and ran with him up to Mr. Johann Stumpf's family, who lived on the second floor of the house. He soon woke up, and together they picked up Mrs. Buschmann and brought her into the house, where they laid her on the sofa next to the child. Meanwhile, Doctors E.J. Williams and A. Sauer were summoned, but they could only declare that mother and child were dead.
The woman died of convulsions caused by intermittent fever and kidney disease, while the child drowned. Apparently the unfortunate woman must have had a fit while reaching down the stairs and fell into the tub with the child in her arms. Justice of the Peace Dorsey held an inquest yesterday and gave a verdict of accidental death.
Hundreds of people attended the funeral home yesterday afternoon. The mother lay in her silk wedding dress, and the child rested on her breast with folded hands.
The funeral is scheduled for 2 p.m. today at Mount Carmel Cemetery. Pastor P.A. Menzel from the 1st German United Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canton, who baptized the drowned child as well as his little brother, will officiate.
Translated from Der Deutsche Correspondent - Tuesday, August 13, 1895.
Deprived of wife and child.
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Mr. Buschmann tragically loses his teenage wife and their young child. -- Both drowned in a washtub.
A strange and most unfortunate accident occurred in Canton on Sunday night. Namely, Barbara Buschmann, wife of Mr. George Buschmann, who is employed as a cellar boy at the National Brewery at Canton and lives at No. 305 O'Donnell Street, Canton, and their two-month-old child Johnnie, were all put in miserable circumstances by the mother's illness.
Mr. Buschmann and his wife, nee Rollwagen, were married fourteen months ago in Philadelphia, and the man had lucrative employment in a brewery there. However, about four months ago he lost his job with others and came to Baltimore, where about six weeks ago he managed to get employment at the National Brewery. He then allowed his wife, who had just given him twins, two handsome boys, to move to Baltimore as well. Here they rented a modest three-room apartment on the first floor of the above-named house, but soon after their arrival in Baltimore and the death two weeks ago of one of the twins, who was named George, the woman began to be ill and surprised her husband recently by suddenly falling to the floor in the middle of the dining room of her apartment and going into convulsions. Soon after, she fell out of her chair at dinner and got cramps again.
On Sunday evening Mr. Buschmann and his wife were enjoying themselves with their darling, two month old Johnnie, and around 9 o'clock in the evening, when Mr. Buschmann got tired, he went to bed on his wife's advice.
He fell asleep quickly in the front room of his apartment, especially since his wife had explained to him that she wanted to sit down on the stairs leading to the courtyard of the apartment and get some fresh air with her child. At the foot of the stairs there was a small washtub half filled with water, in which the woman wanted to soak the laundry in the morning.
Mr. Buschmann slept on peacefully and was not awoken by any noise until 2 o'clock yesterday morning when the guard at the National Brewery woke him to go to work. He woke up quickly and called his wife to bring him his work clothes. Since he received no answer when he called again, he went in search, and when he reached the stairs leading from the kitchen to the yard, he saw a terrible spectacle. His wife lay with the left side of the back of her head partly in the tub, while her feet were still on the stairs. In her left arm, which was in the tub, she held the child convulsively, which was completely covered by the water.
Horrified, Mr. Buschmann took the child out of the mother's arms and ran with him up to Mr. Johann Stumpf's family, who lived on the second floor of the house. He soon woke up, and together they picked up Mrs. Buschmann and brought her into the house, where they laid her on the sofa next to the child. Meanwhile, Doctors E.J. Williams and A. Sauer were summoned, but they could only declare that mother and child were dead.
The woman died of convulsions caused by intermittent fever and kidney disease, while the child drowned. Apparently the unfortunate woman must have had a fit while reaching down the stairs and fell into the tub with the child in her arms. Justice of the Peace Dorsey held an inquest yesterday and gave a verdict of accidental death.
Hundreds of people attended the funeral home yesterday afternoon. The mother lay in her silk wedding dress, and the child rested on her breast with folded hands.
The funeral is scheduled for 2 p.m. today at Mount Carmel Cemetery. Pastor P.A. Menzel from the 1st German United Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canton, who baptized the drowned child as well as his little brother, will officiate.
Translated from Der Deutsche Correspondent - Tuesday, August 13, 1895.
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Mr. Buschmann tragically loses his teenage wife and their young child. -- Both drowned in a washtub.
A strange and most unfortunate accident occurred in Canton on Sunday night. Namely, Barbara Buschmann, wife of Mr. George Buschmann, who is employed as a cellar boy at the National Brewery at Canton and lives at No. 305 O'Donnell Street, Canton, and their two-month-old child Johnnie, were all put in miserable circumstances by the mother's illness.
Mr. Buschmann and his wife, nee Rollwagen, were married fourteen months ago in Philadelphia, and the man had lucrative employment in a brewery there. However, about four months ago he lost his job with others and came to Baltimore, where about six weeks ago he managed to get employment at the National Brewery. He then allowed his wife, who had just given him twins, two handsome boys, to move to Baltimore as well. Here they rented a modest three-room apartment on the first floor of the above-named house, but soon after their arrival in Baltimore and the death two weeks ago of one of the twins, who was named George, the woman began to be ill and surprised her husband recently by suddenly falling to the floor in the middle of the dining room of her apartment and going into convulsions. Soon after, she fell out of her chair at dinner and got cramps again.
On Sunday evening Mr. Buschmann and his wife were enjoying themselves with their darling, two month old Johnnie, and around 9 o'clock in the evening, when Mr. Buschmann got tired, he went to bed on his wife's advice.
He fell asleep quickly in the front room of his apartment, especially since his wife had explained to him that she wanted to sit down on the stairs leading to the courtyard of the apartment and get some fresh air with her child. At the foot of the stairs there was a small washtub half filled with water, in which the woman wanted to soak the laundry in the morning.
Mr. Buschmann slept on peacefully and was not awoken by any noise until 2 o'clock yesterday morning when the guard at the National Brewery woke him to go to work. He woke up quickly and called his wife to bring him his work clothes. Since he received no answer when he called again, he went in search, and when he reached the stairs leading from the kitchen to the yard, he saw a terrible spectacle. His wife lay with the left side of the back of her head partly in the tub, while her feet were still on the stairs. In her left arm, which was in the tub, she held the child convulsively, which was completely covered by the water.
Horrified, Mr. Buschmann took the child out of the mother's arms and ran with him up to Mr. Johann Stumpf's family, who lived on the second floor of the house. He soon woke up, and together they picked up Mrs. Buschmann and brought her into the house, where they laid her on the sofa next to the child. Meanwhile, Doctors E.J. Williams and A. Sauer were summoned, but they could only declare that mother and child were dead.
The woman died of convulsions caused by intermittent fever and kidney disease, while the child drowned. Apparently the unfortunate woman must have had a fit while reaching down the stairs and fell into the tub with the child in her arms. Justice of the Peace Dorsey held an inquest yesterday and gave a verdict of accidental death.
Hundreds of people attended the funeral home yesterday afternoon. The mother lay in her silk wedding dress, and the child rested on her breast with folded hands.
The funeral is scheduled for 2 p.m. today at Mount Carmel Cemetery. Pastor P.A. Menzel from the 1st German United Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canton, who baptized the drowned child as well as his little brother, will officiate.
Translated from Der Deutsche Correspondent - Tuesday, August 13, 1895.
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