At ten o'clock Tuesday morning the citizens of Shullsburg met at the residence of John Hebenstreit, to assist in the last sad rites which sympathy and affection accorded to the dead. No event has occurred in our city in recent times which has more moved our people than the announcement Sunday evening that young John Hebenstreit was dead.
Sunday afternoon John and a comrade started with their guns toward the Drybone to hunt. A shower came up and they took shelter in a building near the Little Giant reduction works. After the shower they came out, and the comrade attempted to let down the hammer of his gun.
It was discharged, and the charge entered the body of John. The wound was a terrible one, the charge entered the right side at the point of the hip and tore through the liver, and no doubt lacerated other organs fatally. In about five hours he was dead.
He was removed to the residence of John Kilcoyne; his parents and Dr. C.C. Gratiot summoned. The latter saw at once that the wound was fatal. The deceased was a boy loved and respected by everyone who knew him. His untimely end brought out the deepest sympathy of the whole community, which mingles its grief for his loss, with the deepest condolence for the bereaved family, and with it all is pity and commiseration for the author who is nearly distraught at the frightful result.
The boys were each about sixteen years of age and were two of the best boys in this city. The students of the High School and of the Grammer room attended the funeral in a body. It was one of the largest ever seen in the city.
Southwestern Local 16 Oct 1897
Contributor Audrey Quinn Porter Fag#47005894
At ten o'clock Tuesday morning the citizens of Shullsburg met at the residence of John Hebenstreit, to assist in the last sad rites which sympathy and affection accorded to the dead. No event has occurred in our city in recent times which has more moved our people than the announcement Sunday evening that young John Hebenstreit was dead.
Sunday afternoon John and a comrade started with their guns toward the Drybone to hunt. A shower came up and they took shelter in a building near the Little Giant reduction works. After the shower they came out, and the comrade attempted to let down the hammer of his gun.
It was discharged, and the charge entered the body of John. The wound was a terrible one, the charge entered the right side at the point of the hip and tore through the liver, and no doubt lacerated other organs fatally. In about five hours he was dead.
He was removed to the residence of John Kilcoyne; his parents and Dr. C.C. Gratiot summoned. The latter saw at once that the wound was fatal. The deceased was a boy loved and respected by everyone who knew him. His untimely end brought out the deepest sympathy of the whole community, which mingles its grief for his loss, with the deepest condolence for the bereaved family, and with it all is pity and commiseration for the author who is nearly distraught at the frightful result.
The boys were each about sixteen years of age and were two of the best boys in this city. The students of the High School and of the Grammer room attended the funeral in a body. It was one of the largest ever seen in the city.
Southwestern Local 16 Oct 1897
Contributor Audrey Quinn Porter Fag#47005894
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