Obit for KOHLER, Gustav (b.1883 d.1923), Swift Co., MN
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Gustav KOHLER February 23, 1883 to August 14, 1923 
DEATH FOLLOWS INJURIES CAUSED BY RUNAWAY
Gustav Kohler Victim - Loaded Wagon Passes Over Body
Gustav Kohler, of the township of Moyer, suffered internal injuries that 
caused his death when a team, hitched to a wagon-load of grain, became 
frightened and ran away and the wheels of the loaded wagon passed over 
his body. The accident occurred at the farm of Lester Kerr last Tuesday 
afternoon about four o'clock, and Mr. Kohler died on Wednesday, August 
15, at 11:15 a. m. 
Mr. Kohler was driving a grain wagon in the threshing operations of the 
Kerr farm. He stopped the team close to the gasoline engine used to 
operate the separator, and got off the load to start the engine. When the 
engine started, the noise frightened the team. Thomas Timm, a young son 
of Mr. and Mrs. Curt Timm was on the grain wagon, and it is thought that 
Mr. Kohler feared for the safety of the boy and made an attempt to reach 
the wagon and stop the horses. In the attempt he slipped under the wheels 
and they passed over his abdomen.
Doctors were summoned immediately but despite every effort to aid him in 
his fight for life death took him the following day.
The little boy remained on the wagon and the team ran until they struck a 
tree, when the impact covered him with grain. He was immediately rescued 
from his dangerous position and suffered but a few bruises from the 
experience.
Gustav J. Kohler was born on the farm in the township of Moyer that was 
his home at the time of his death, on February 23, 1883. He was married 
to Martha Ritzke of Shible township on Feb. 2, 1905. His wife and two 
children, Helen and Otto, survive. Two sisters, Mrs. R. Janke of Moyer 
and Mrs. Gust Lenz of Montevideo, also survive.
Funeral services will be conducted on Sunday at 11 o'clock a. m. from the 
Evangelical church, Fairfield, Rev. F. R. Reidal officiating.
This is the second fatal accident in the Kohler family. A son met death 
by drowing in the mill pond here about eight years ago.