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From THE COLUMBUS (NE.) DAILY TELEGRAM, January 10, 1919, pg. 1, col. 4
Two more deaths from typhoid occurred in the Frank Bade family, of Sherman township, this week, bringing the list of victims up to five within one month. Mrs. Bade died at their home nineteen and a half miles northeast of Columbus, Wednesday afternoon at 2:15 o'clock, after a seven weeks' struggle against the dread typhus. Scarcely had relatives and friends met the shock of her passing, when the sad message came that her 11-year-old son, Willie, died in the hospital at Leigh yesterday morning.
Mr. Bade's death occurred December 14; a daughter, Miss Dora, passed away December 17, and a son, Oscar, died December 19. Thus, of a happy family of twelve members one short month ago, there now survive only seven children--Herman, aged 30; Bertha, 29; Louis, 27; Frank, 29; Walter, 16; Albert, 13, and Elizabeth, 9. Louis and Albert have escaped the fatal malady. The other boys are now believed to be recovering at the hospital at Leigh. Elizabeth has practically regained her health at a hospital in Columbus. Miss Bertha, however, has been in critical condition again this week, though a slight improvement was noted yesterday morning.
That they contracted the typhoid from drinking water drawn from a well on the farm has practically been established, according to Supervisor Ed Lueschen, relative of the stricken family. Mr. Lueschen says that a sample of the water has been sent to the state bacteriologist at Lincoln; that he has found it to be infested with typhus bacilli and has pronounced it unfit for drinking purposes. The old well is a shallow one, located close to a creek.
Arrangements have been made for a double funeral service to be held at the German Lutheran church in Sherman township at noon Saturday, and the bodies of Mrs. Bade and her son Willie will be laid to rest in the cemetery near the church, where already three fresh mounds of earth bear mute evidence of the grief that has come to this Platte county family.
Mrs. Bade was a daughter of one of the county's sterling pioneers, the venerable Herman Lueschen. She was born in Wisconsin July 11, 1871, and the family came here while she was a little child, locating in Sherman township. She was married to Mr. Bade March 19, 1888. Besides her children mentioned above, she leaves her aged father, four brothers and four sisters--Alfred Lueschen, of Colfax county; Oscar and Herman, of Platte county; Henry residing in Colorado; Mrs. Emma Meyer, of Pierce county; Mrs. C.J. Bisson and Mrs. Carl Hollman, residing north of Columbus, and Mrs. William Hellbusch, of Texas. [ColfaxDeutschlandPlatte.FBK.FTW]
From THE COLUMBUS (NE.) DAILY TELEGRAM, January 10, 1919, pg. 1, col. 4
Two more deaths from typhoid occurred in the Frank Bade family, of Sherman township, this week, bringing the list of victims up to five within one month. Mrs. Bade died at their home nineteen and a half miles northeast of Columbus, Wednesday afternoon at 2:15 o'clock, after a seven weeks' struggle against the dread typhus. Scarcely had relatives and friends met the shock of her passing, when the sad message came that her 11-year-old son, Willie, died in the hospital at Leigh yesterday morning.
Mr. Bade's death occurred December 14; a daughter, Miss Dora, passed away December 17, and a son, Oscar, died December 19. Thus, of a happy family of twelve members one short month ago, there now survive only seven children--Herman, aged 30; Bertha, 29; Louis, 27; Frank, 29; Walter, 16; Albert, 13, and Elizabeth, 9. Louis and Albert have escaped the fatal malady. The other boys are now believed to be recovering at the hospital at Leigh. Elizabeth has practically regained her health at a hospital in Columbus. Miss Bertha, however, has been in critical condition again this week, though a slight improvement was noted yesterday morning.
That they contracted the typhoid from drinking water drawn from a well on the farm has practically been established, according to Supervisor Ed Lueschen, relative of the stricken family. Mr. Lueschen says that a sample of the water has been sent to the state bacteriologist at Lincoln; that he has found it to be infested with typhus bacilli and has pronounced it unfit for drinking purposes. The old well is a shallow one, located close to a creek.
Arrangements have been made for a double funeral service to be held at the German Lutheran church in Sherman township at noon Saturday, and the bodies of Mrs. Bade and her son Willie will be laid to rest in the cemetery near the church, where already three fresh mounds of earth bear mute evidence of the grief that has come to this Platte county family.
Mrs. Bade was a daughter of one of the county's sterling pioneers, the venerable Herman Lueschen. She was born in Wisconsin July 11, 1871, and the family came here while she was a little child, locating in Sherman township. She was married to Mr. Bade March 19, 1888. Besides her children mentioned above, she leaves her aged father, four brothers and four sisters--Alfred Lueschen, of Colfax county; Oscar and Herman, of Platte county; Henry residing in Colorado; Mrs. Emma Meyer, of Pierce county; Mrs. C.J. Bisson and Mrs. Carl Hollman, residing north of Columbus, and Mrs. William Hellbusch, of Texas.
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