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- Brown County Man Second Victim of Overturned Crane
Peter Ambrosius, Ashwaubenon, Dies in Hospital Following Appleton Accident
The second fatality as the result of the overturning of a crane in the yards of the Interlake Pulp and Paper company at Appleton Saturday afternoon occurred when Peter Ambrosius, formerly of Brown county, died in an Appleton hospital Sunday. Henry Knaack, engineer, who was pinned under the overturned machine, was dead when a wrecking train sent from here had succeeded in lifting it from his body.
Ambrosius, foreman of the crane gang, had been in the cab with Knaack while the machine was lifting bundles of pulpwood from a pile and dumping them in the canal. It is believed to have lifted too heavy a load and was overbalanced and capsized. Knaack was caught underneath, while Ambrosius' clothing was set afire and his chest and face badly burned by coals from the boiler. To extinguish the blaze he leaped into the canal, from which he was extricated and rushed to the hospital, but his injuries were too severe to permit his recovery.
He was born in t he town of Ashwaubenon 39 years ago, and was married in 1910 to Miss Anna Van DeVoort, Wrightstown, who, with three children, Norbert, 13; Evelyn, 10 and Loretta, 8, survive him. His parents Mr. and Mrs. John Ambrosius, Ashwaubenon, and four sisters: Anna, Ashwaubenon, Mrs. John Diedrich, Oneida; Mrs. Paul Kaiser, Ashwaubenon, and Mrs. Ed Pagel, Green Bay also survive.
Funeral services will be held from the Appleton Catholic church at 9 o'clock Wednesday morning with burial at Wrightstown.
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1889 - 1925 (35 years)