Glenn Christian Ramstad was born 13 July 1911 in Minneapolis to Norwegian immigrant John Martin Ramstad (1879-1945) and Nelsine "Sena" Olava Borup Ramstad (1882-1946), born in Wisconsin of Norwegian descent. His older brother Myrl Peter Ramstad (1901-1959) was born in Minneapolis, but the family had moved to Faribault, MN when his older sister Violet Ramstad Crellin (1907-1987) was born, though they had moved back to Minneapolis by 1910. After graduating South High School in 1929, he was listed as living at home in the 1930 census, and at age 18 was employed as a city laborer with the City of Minneapolis. He was a clerk with an oil company at the time he was tragically killed in an automobile accident on 26 February 1933 at the age of 21. At the time of his death he was reportedly engaged to be married to a Miss Helen Jarpe, who was traveling with him when the accident occurred. He was interred at Hillside Cemetery in northeast Minneapolis two days later.
CAR HURTLES DOWN RIVER BANK, KILLS OWNER
Glenn C. Ramstad, 21 years old, was crushed to death when he tried to stop his car from skidding down the river bank on the West River Road near the Lake Street bridge. The car hurtled down the bank, pinning Ramstad beneath it. He lived at 3925 Drew Avenue South. [photograph of car crashed into two trees] (Minneapolis Star Tribune, Monday, February 27, 1933)
1 KILLED, 1 BADLY HURT AS AUTOS CRUSH OWN DRIVERS
Two automobile accidents, in which cars plunged over embankments, took the life of one Minneapolis motorist and seriously injured another yesterday [Sunday, February 26, 1933].
Glenn C. Ramstad, 3925 Drew Avenue South, was killed when his car skidded over the bank of the West River Road near the Lake Street Bridge.
As the car skidded from the road, it stopped for a moment on the brink of the embankment. Ramstad got out and attempted to push the machine back on the road. It started to roll, then skidded 40 feet down the river bank, pinning him beneath it.
When a police squad pulled his body from the wreckage, he was dead. Miss Helen Jarpe, 608 Sixteenth Avenue SE, his companion, was unhurt. (Minneapolis Star Tribune, Monday, February 27, 1933)
AUTOS JUMP EMBANKMENTS; 1 DRIVER DEAD
PUSHES AUTO; STRANGLED AS IT SLIPS BACK
MACHINE PINIONS DRIVER AS IT GOES OVER RIVER BANK
Two automobile accidents of similar nature killed one Minneapolis motorist and severely injured another during the weekend.
The dead man is Glenn C. Ramstad, 21, of 3925 Drew Avenue South. The injured is Arthur Flamant, 38, of 802 South Sixth Street. Both were involved in plunges of cars down steep embankments.
Ramstad was caught with his car as he attempted to push it back upon the slippery West River road. Out of control, it slid 40 feet down the Mississippi river bank, crashed into trees, and suffocated him beneath it.
In the other, Flamant failed to notice a turn in a roadway. His machine broke over an embankment of 20 feet at Third avenue north and First street, crashed on railroad tracks below, and pinned him underneath. He is in General Hospital, suffering from brain concussion.
The freak plunge that killed Ramstad brought only a wild ride and a few bumps and bruises for a young woman companion, Miss Helen Jarpe, 20, of 608 Sixteenth Avenue Southeast. It was her outcries that started rescue parties on the way.
Across the Mississippi from West River Road, a passerby along the St. Paul Boulevard heard the screaming of a woman during the darkness early Sunday [February 26, 1933]. He called St. Paul Police. A squad car cruised up and down the road, but found nothing. The police couldn’t locate the screams.
NOTICES AUTO HEADLIGHTS
Then one of the patrolmen glanced across the river. Far down the bank of the West River Road two automobile headlights gleamed out of the dark. The squad car raced across the Lake Street Bridge and down the West River Road to a slippery stretch of pavement between Thirty-Third and Thirty-Fourth Streets. Forty feet down the bank, the police found the automobile, overturned against a clump of trees that halted its downward plunge.
Besides the machine, crying for help, was Miss Jarpe. Pinioned beneath was Ramstad. She had been unable to give him aid or to climb up the bank. He died before police could remove his body.
MACHINE SKIDS, LEAVES ROAD
Miss Jarpe told Deputy Coroner Harold F. Neilsen that she and Ramstad were driving toward the loop on the West River Road when the machine skidded suddenly on the icy road and turned around off the left side of the road with the rear wheels toward the river bank.
Ramstad, she said, got out of the car and went to the front where he attempted to push the machine back onto the road. Miss Jarpe sat at the wheel, while Ramstad was pushing, she said, the car started to slide toward the river bank.
Ramstad ran alongside and jumped on the left running board, getting the door partly opened, as he attempted to reach the wheel. The machine reached the bank and plunged downward, landing on its left side with Ramstad underneath. It did not halt until it struck the clump of trees farther down the bank.
Dr. Neilsen said that Ramstad died from strangulation, caused by a heavy weight resting across his face and neck. He otherwise bore no signs of injuries and there were no broken bones.
The accident occurred shortly before 2:00 a.m.
THE DEAD
GLENN RAMSTAD, 21, of 3925 Drew Avenue South, suffocated when pinned underneath his car after it had plunged 40 feet down the Mississippi river bank from West River Road south of Thirty-Second Street.
JOSEPH EMERFOLL, 442 University Avenue, St. Paul, died at Ancker Hospital from injuries received early Saturday in an automobile accident at University Avenue and Kent Street, St. Paul.
THE INJURED
MISS HELEN JARPE, 20, of 608 Sixteenth Avenue Southeast, slightly bruised in the crash of the Glenn Ramstad machine.
ARTHUR FLAMANT, 38, of 802 South Sixth Street, suffered concussion of the brain and severe bruises when his machine plunged down a 20-foot embankment to the railroad tracks at a turn at Third Avenue North near First Street. Serious condition at General Hospital.
JOHN KAPP, 55, of 204 Second Street North, a pedestrian, suffered a broken leg and severe cuts when struck at Second Street and Hennepin Avenue by Al Pearson, 5455 Nicollet Avenue. General Hospital.
B.V. BRAY, 49, of 3340 Fremont Avenue South, cut and bruised when his automobile collided with a machine at Twenty-Second Street and Hennepin Avenue.
MARY PATRICIA BRAY, 8, same address, cut and bruised in the same accident.
RUSSELL SANDGREN, 29, of 819 Thomas Street, St. Paul, treated at Ancker Hospital in St. Paul for minor injuries suffered when struck at Sixth Street and Smith Avenue in St. Paul by H.J. Howe, 608 Nicollet Avenue.
(Minneapolis Tribune, Minneapolis, MN, Monday, 27 February 1933)
CAR HURTLES DOWN RIVER BANK, KILLS OWNER
Glenn C. Ramstad, 21 years old, was crushed to death when he tried to stop his car from skidding down the river bank on the West River Road near the Lake Street bridge. The car hurtled down the bank, pinning Ramstad beneath it. He lived at 3925 Drew Avenue South. [photograph of car crashed into two trees] (Minneapolis Star Tribune, Monday, February 27, 1933)
1 KILLED, 1 BADLY HURT AS AUTOS CRUSH OWN DRIVERS
Two automobile accidents, in which cars plunged over embankments, took the life of one Minneapolis motorist and seriously injured another yesterday [Sunday, February 26, 1933].
Glenn C. Ramstad, 3925 Drew Avenue South, was killed when his car skidded over the bank of the West River Road near the Lake Street Bridge.
As the car skidded from the road, it stopped for a moment on the brink of the embankment. Ramstad got out and attempted to push the machine back on the road. It started to roll, then skidded 40 feet down the river bank, pinning him beneath it.
When a police squad pulled his body from the wreckage, he was dead. Miss Helen Jarpe, 608 Sixteenth Avenue SE, his companion, was unhurt. (Minneapolis Star Tribune, Monday, February 27, 1933)
AUTOS JUMP EMBANKMENTS; 1 DRIVER DEAD
PUSHES AUTO; STRANGLED AS IT SLIPS BACK
MACHINE PINIONS DRIVER AS IT GOES OVER RIVER BANK
Two automobile accidents of similar nature killed one Minneapolis motorist and severely injured another during the weekend.
The dead man is Glenn C. Ramstad, 21, of 3925 Drew Avenue South. The injured is Arthur Flamant, 38, of 802 South Sixth Street. Both were involved in plunges of cars down steep embankments.
Ramstad was caught with his car as he attempted to push it back upon the slippery West River road. Out of control, it slid 40 feet down the Mississippi river bank, crashed into trees, and suffocated him beneath it.
In the other, Flamant failed to notice a turn in a roadway. His machine broke over an embankment of 20 feet at Third avenue north and First street, crashed on railroad tracks below, and pinned him underneath. He is in General Hospital, suffering from brain concussion.
The freak plunge that killed Ramstad brought only a wild ride and a few bumps and bruises for a young woman companion, Miss Helen Jarpe, 20, of 608 Sixteenth Avenue Southeast. It was her outcries that started rescue parties on the way.
Across the Mississippi from West River Road, a passerby along the St. Paul Boulevard heard the screaming of a woman during the darkness early Sunday [February 26, 1933]. He called St. Paul Police. A squad car cruised up and down the road, but found nothing. The police couldn’t locate the screams.
NOTICES AUTO HEADLIGHTS
Then one of the patrolmen glanced across the river. Far down the bank of the West River Road two automobile headlights gleamed out of the dark. The squad car raced across the Lake Street Bridge and down the West River Road to a slippery stretch of pavement between Thirty-Third and Thirty-Fourth Streets. Forty feet down the bank, the police found the automobile, overturned against a clump of trees that halted its downward plunge.
Besides the machine, crying for help, was Miss Jarpe. Pinioned beneath was Ramstad. She had been unable to give him aid or to climb up the bank. He died before police could remove his body.
MACHINE SKIDS, LEAVES ROAD
Miss Jarpe told Deputy Coroner Harold F. Neilsen that she and Ramstad were driving toward the loop on the West River Road when the machine skidded suddenly on the icy road and turned around off the left side of the road with the rear wheels toward the river bank.
Ramstad, she said, got out of the car and went to the front where he attempted to push the machine back onto the road. Miss Jarpe sat at the wheel, while Ramstad was pushing, she said, the car started to slide toward the river bank.
Ramstad ran alongside and jumped on the left running board, getting the door partly opened, as he attempted to reach the wheel. The machine reached the bank and plunged downward, landing on its left side with Ramstad underneath. It did not halt until it struck the clump of trees farther down the bank.
Dr. Neilsen said that Ramstad died from strangulation, caused by a heavy weight resting across his face and neck. He otherwise bore no signs of injuries and there were no broken bones.
The accident occurred shortly before 2:00 a.m.
THE DEAD
GLENN RAMSTAD, 21, of 3925 Drew Avenue South, suffocated when pinned underneath his car after it had plunged 40 feet down the Mississippi river bank from West River Road south of Thirty-Second Street.
JOSEPH EMERFOLL, 442 University Avenue, St. Paul, died at Ancker Hospital from injuries received early Saturday in an automobile accident at University Avenue and Kent Street, St. Paul.
THE INJURED
MISS HELEN JARPE, 20, of 608 Sixteenth Avenue Southeast, slightly bruised in the crash of the Glenn Ramstad machine.
ARTHUR FLAMANT, 38, of 802 South Sixth Street, suffered concussion of the brain and severe bruises when his machine plunged down a 20-foot embankment to the railroad tracks at a turn at Third Avenue North near First Street. Serious condition at General Hospital.
JOHN KAPP, 55, of 204 Second Street North, a pedestrian, suffered a broken leg and severe cuts when struck at Second Street and Hennepin Avenue by Al Pearson, 5455 Nicollet Avenue. General Hospital.
B.V. BRAY, 49, of 3340 Fremont Avenue South, cut and bruised when his automobile collided with a machine at Twenty-Second Street and Hennepin Avenue.
MARY PATRICIA BRAY, 8, same address, cut and bruised in the same accident.
RUSSELL SANDGREN, 29, of 819 Thomas Street, St. Paul, treated at Ancker Hospital in St. Paul for minor injuries suffered when struck at Sixth Street and Smith Avenue in St. Paul by H.J. Howe, 608 Nicollet Avenue.
(Minneapolis Tribune, Minneapolis, MN, Monday, 27 February 1933)
Glenn Christian Ramstad was born 13 July 1911 in Minneapolis to Norwegian immigrant John Martin Ramstad (1879-1945) and Nelsine "Sena" Olava Borup Ramstad (1882-1946), born in Wisconsin of Norwegian descent. His older brother Myrl Peter Ramstad (1901-1959) was born in Minneapolis, but the family had moved to Faribault, MN when his older sister Violet Ramstad Crellin (1907-1987) was born, though they had moved back to Minneapolis by 1910. After graduating South High School in 1929, he was listed as living at home in the 1930 census, and at age 18 was employed as a city laborer with the City of Minneapolis. He was a clerk with an oil company at the time he was tragically killed in an automobile accident on 26 February 1933 at the age of 21. At the time of his death he was reportedly engaged to be married to a Miss Helen Jarpe, who was traveling with him when the accident occurred. He was interred at Hillside Cemetery in northeast Minneapolis two days later.
CAR HURTLES DOWN RIVER BANK, KILLS OWNER
Glenn C. Ramstad, 21 years old, was crushed to death when he tried to stop his car from skidding down the river bank on the West River Road near the Lake Street bridge. The car hurtled down the bank, pinning Ramstad beneath it. He lived at 3925 Drew Avenue South. [photograph of car crashed into two trees] (Minneapolis Star Tribune, Monday, February 27, 1933)
1 KILLED, 1 BADLY HURT AS AUTOS CRUSH OWN DRIVERS
Two automobile accidents, in which cars plunged over embankments, took the life of one Minneapolis motorist and seriously injured another yesterday [Sunday, February 26, 1933].
Glenn C. Ramstad, 3925 Drew Avenue South, was killed when his car skidded over the bank of the West River Road near the Lake Street Bridge.
As the car skidded from the road, it stopped for a moment on the brink of the embankment. Ramstad got out and attempted to push the machine back on the road. It started to roll, then skidded 40 feet down the river bank, pinning him beneath it.
When a police squad pulled his body from the wreckage, he was dead. Miss Helen Jarpe, 608 Sixteenth Avenue SE, his companion, was unhurt. (Minneapolis Star Tribune, Monday, February 27, 1933)
AUTOS JUMP EMBANKMENTS; 1 DRIVER DEAD
PUSHES AUTO; STRANGLED AS IT SLIPS BACK
MACHINE PINIONS DRIVER AS IT GOES OVER RIVER BANK
Two automobile accidents of similar nature killed one Minneapolis motorist and severely injured another during the weekend.
The dead man is Glenn C. Ramstad, 21, of 3925 Drew Avenue South. The injured is Arthur Flamant, 38, of 802 South Sixth Street. Both were involved in plunges of cars down steep embankments.
Ramstad was caught with his car as he attempted to push it back upon the slippery West River road. Out of control, it slid 40 feet down the Mississippi river bank, crashed into trees, and suffocated him beneath it.
In the other, Flamant failed to notice a turn in a roadway. His machine broke over an embankment of 20 feet at Third avenue north and First street, crashed on railroad tracks below, and pinned him underneath. He is in General Hospital, suffering from brain concussion.
The freak plunge that killed Ramstad brought only a wild ride and a few bumps and bruises for a young woman companion, Miss Helen Jarpe, 20, of 608 Sixteenth Avenue Southeast. It was her outcries that started rescue parties on the way.
Across the Mississippi from West River Road, a passerby along the St. Paul Boulevard heard the screaming of a woman during the darkness early Sunday [February 26, 1933]. He called St. Paul Police. A squad car cruised up and down the road, but found nothing. The police couldn’t locate the screams.
NOTICES AUTO HEADLIGHTS
Then one of the patrolmen glanced across the river. Far down the bank of the West River Road two automobile headlights gleamed out of the dark. The squad car raced across the Lake Street Bridge and down the West River Road to a slippery stretch of pavement between Thirty-Third and Thirty-Fourth Streets. Forty feet down the bank, the police found the automobile, overturned against a clump of trees that halted its downward plunge.
Besides the machine, crying for help, was Miss Jarpe. Pinioned beneath was Ramstad. She had been unable to give him aid or to climb up the bank. He died before police could remove his body.
MACHINE SKIDS, LEAVES ROAD
Miss Jarpe told Deputy Coroner Harold F. Neilsen that she and Ramstad were driving toward the loop on the West River Road when the machine skidded suddenly on the icy road and turned around off the left side of the road with the rear wheels toward the river bank.
Ramstad, she said, got out of the car and went to the front where he attempted to push the machine back onto the road. Miss Jarpe sat at the wheel, while Ramstad was pushing, she said, the car started to slide toward the river bank.
Ramstad ran alongside and jumped on the left running board, getting the door partly opened, as he attempted to reach the wheel. The machine reached the bank and plunged downward, landing on its left side with Ramstad underneath. It did not halt until it struck the clump of trees farther down the bank.
Dr. Neilsen said that Ramstad died from strangulation, caused by a heavy weight resting across his face and neck. He otherwise bore no signs of injuries and there were no broken bones.
The accident occurred shortly before 2:00 a.m.
THE DEAD
GLENN RAMSTAD, 21, of 3925 Drew Avenue South, suffocated when pinned underneath his car after it had plunged 40 feet down the Mississippi river bank from West River Road south of Thirty-Second Street.
JOSEPH EMERFOLL, 442 University Avenue, St. Paul, died at Ancker Hospital from injuries received early Saturday in an automobile accident at University Avenue and Kent Street, St. Paul.
THE INJURED
MISS HELEN JARPE, 20, of 608 Sixteenth Avenue Southeast, slightly bruised in the crash of the Glenn Ramstad machine.
ARTHUR FLAMANT, 38, of 802 South Sixth Street, suffered concussion of the brain and severe bruises when his machine plunged down a 20-foot embankment to the railroad tracks at a turn at Third Avenue North near First Street. Serious condition at General Hospital.
JOHN KAPP, 55, of 204 Second Street North, a pedestrian, suffered a broken leg and severe cuts when struck at Second Street and Hennepin Avenue by Al Pearson, 5455 Nicollet Avenue. General Hospital.
B.V. BRAY, 49, of 3340 Fremont Avenue South, cut and bruised when his automobile collided with a machine at Twenty-Second Street and Hennepin Avenue.
MARY PATRICIA BRAY, 8, same address, cut and bruised in the same accident.
RUSSELL SANDGREN, 29, of 819 Thomas Street, St. Paul, treated at Ancker Hospital in St. Paul for minor injuries suffered when struck at Sixth Street and Smith Avenue in St. Paul by H.J. Howe, 608 Nicollet Avenue.
(Minneapolis Tribune, Minneapolis, MN, Monday, 27 February 1933)
CAR HURTLES DOWN RIVER BANK, KILLS OWNER
Glenn C. Ramstad, 21 years old, was crushed to death when he tried to stop his car from skidding down the river bank on the West River Road near the Lake Street bridge. The car hurtled down the bank, pinning Ramstad beneath it. He lived at 3925 Drew Avenue South. [photograph of car crashed into two trees] (Minneapolis Star Tribune, Monday, February 27, 1933)
1 KILLED, 1 BADLY HURT AS AUTOS CRUSH OWN DRIVERS
Two automobile accidents, in which cars plunged over embankments, took the life of one Minneapolis motorist and seriously injured another yesterday [Sunday, February 26, 1933].
Glenn C. Ramstad, 3925 Drew Avenue South, was killed when his car skidded over the bank of the West River Road near the Lake Street Bridge.
As the car skidded from the road, it stopped for a moment on the brink of the embankment. Ramstad got out and attempted to push the machine back on the road. It started to roll, then skidded 40 feet down the river bank, pinning him beneath it.
When a police squad pulled his body from the wreckage, he was dead. Miss Helen Jarpe, 608 Sixteenth Avenue SE, his companion, was unhurt. (Minneapolis Star Tribune, Monday, February 27, 1933)
AUTOS JUMP EMBANKMENTS; 1 DRIVER DEAD
PUSHES AUTO; STRANGLED AS IT SLIPS BACK
MACHINE PINIONS DRIVER AS IT GOES OVER RIVER BANK
Two automobile accidents of similar nature killed one Minneapolis motorist and severely injured another during the weekend.
The dead man is Glenn C. Ramstad, 21, of 3925 Drew Avenue South. The injured is Arthur Flamant, 38, of 802 South Sixth Street. Both were involved in plunges of cars down steep embankments.
Ramstad was caught with his car as he attempted to push it back upon the slippery West River road. Out of control, it slid 40 feet down the Mississippi river bank, crashed into trees, and suffocated him beneath it.
In the other, Flamant failed to notice a turn in a roadway. His machine broke over an embankment of 20 feet at Third avenue north and First street, crashed on railroad tracks below, and pinned him underneath. He is in General Hospital, suffering from brain concussion.
The freak plunge that killed Ramstad brought only a wild ride and a few bumps and bruises for a young woman companion, Miss Helen Jarpe, 20, of 608 Sixteenth Avenue Southeast. It was her outcries that started rescue parties on the way.
Across the Mississippi from West River Road, a passerby along the St. Paul Boulevard heard the screaming of a woman during the darkness early Sunday [February 26, 1933]. He called St. Paul Police. A squad car cruised up and down the road, but found nothing. The police couldn’t locate the screams.
NOTICES AUTO HEADLIGHTS
Then one of the patrolmen glanced across the river. Far down the bank of the West River Road two automobile headlights gleamed out of the dark. The squad car raced across the Lake Street Bridge and down the West River Road to a slippery stretch of pavement between Thirty-Third and Thirty-Fourth Streets. Forty feet down the bank, the police found the automobile, overturned against a clump of trees that halted its downward plunge.
Besides the machine, crying for help, was Miss Jarpe. Pinioned beneath was Ramstad. She had been unable to give him aid or to climb up the bank. He died before police could remove his body.
MACHINE SKIDS, LEAVES ROAD
Miss Jarpe told Deputy Coroner Harold F. Neilsen that she and Ramstad were driving toward the loop on the West River Road when the machine skidded suddenly on the icy road and turned around off the left side of the road with the rear wheels toward the river bank.
Ramstad, she said, got out of the car and went to the front where he attempted to push the machine back onto the road. Miss Jarpe sat at the wheel, while Ramstad was pushing, she said, the car started to slide toward the river bank.
Ramstad ran alongside and jumped on the left running board, getting the door partly opened, as he attempted to reach the wheel. The machine reached the bank and plunged downward, landing on its left side with Ramstad underneath. It did not halt until it struck the clump of trees farther down the bank.
Dr. Neilsen said that Ramstad died from strangulation, caused by a heavy weight resting across his face and neck. He otherwise bore no signs of injuries and there were no broken bones.
The accident occurred shortly before 2:00 a.m.
THE DEAD
GLENN RAMSTAD, 21, of 3925 Drew Avenue South, suffocated when pinned underneath his car after it had plunged 40 feet down the Mississippi river bank from West River Road south of Thirty-Second Street.
JOSEPH EMERFOLL, 442 University Avenue, St. Paul, died at Ancker Hospital from injuries received early Saturday in an automobile accident at University Avenue and Kent Street, St. Paul.
THE INJURED
MISS HELEN JARPE, 20, of 608 Sixteenth Avenue Southeast, slightly bruised in the crash of the Glenn Ramstad machine.
ARTHUR FLAMANT, 38, of 802 South Sixth Street, suffered concussion of the brain and severe bruises when his machine plunged down a 20-foot embankment to the railroad tracks at a turn at Third Avenue North near First Street. Serious condition at General Hospital.
JOHN KAPP, 55, of 204 Second Street North, a pedestrian, suffered a broken leg and severe cuts when struck at Second Street and Hennepin Avenue by Al Pearson, 5455 Nicollet Avenue. General Hospital.
B.V. BRAY, 49, of 3340 Fremont Avenue South, cut and bruised when his automobile collided with a machine at Twenty-Second Street and Hennepin Avenue.
MARY PATRICIA BRAY, 8, same address, cut and bruised in the same accident.
RUSSELL SANDGREN, 29, of 819 Thomas Street, St. Paul, treated at Ancker Hospital in St. Paul for minor injuries suffered when struck at Sixth Street and Smith Avenue in St. Paul by H.J. Howe, 608 Nicollet Avenue.
(Minneapolis Tribune, Minneapolis, MN, Monday, 27 February 1933)
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