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- FOUR LITTLE GIRLS DIED IN A GRAVEL PIT
Four little girls living on a farm about four miles north of Black Creek met death in a gravel pit last Wednesday evening. The children were set out by their parents to bring home the cows.
They stopped to play near a gravel pit and the pit caved in. Five feet of the gravel covered their bodies and they were suffocated.
The bodies were removed from the pit about 8 0clock by searching parties sent out after the children failed to return home. Their bodies were badly cut and bruised and bone broken.
The children were Amanda Barth, aged 13 years; Augusta Barth, aged 11 years, and Katie Barth, aged 9 years, daughters of Frank Barth, and Gretchen Rosenburg, aged 9 years.
Hilbert Favorite May 16, 1912
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Kaukauna Times
5-17-1912
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT
Kaukauna Lady Aunt to Three Children Killed in Town of Cicero
The three little girls-Amanda, Augusta and Katherine Barth, who were buried by the cave-in of a sand pit in the town of Cicero last week, thus losing their lives, were the daughters of Frank Barth, a brother of Mrs. Grant Whitman of this city, who immediately left for her brother's home as soon as she heard of the terrible accident.
For several years this sand pit has existed in this dangerous condition and nothing had been thought of it. All of the children passing on their way to school had been in the habit of playing there when time permitted. No one except the four children killed was near the scene when the bank fell crushing out their lives. It is thought that so much wet weather was the principal cause of the heavy overhanging shelf of dirt giving way. This and the fact that some farmer near there was engaged in blasting out stumps were the probable causes of the fatal catastrophe which covered the children, aged 8 to 13 years of age, beneath six feet of earth. Margaret Rosenberg was the fourth child killed. The funerals of all of them were held at Black Creek Saturday.
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1899 - 1912 (~ 12 years)