Humboldt County NV Archives Obituaries.....Lorentz, Joseph June 1889
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Weekly Gazette and Stockman June 13, 1889
Killed By a Horse

A Man Found Dead by His Little Boy

Monday’s Winnemucca Silver State gives the following particulars of the accident
mentioned in yesterday’s Gazette: Joseph Lorentz left here Saturday evening for
Stauffer & Sweetzer’s ranch, about four miles above town, and told his family he
would be back at 7 o’clock next morning.  His son, a lad 10 years of age, went
up the road yesterday morning to meet his father, but not seeing him on the
road, continued on to the ranch, where he saw the team which his father had been
driving partly hitched to the wagon.  The boy went to the house, which he found
locked, and called his father, but got no answer.  He then took a box, which he
placed near the window, and, looking into the house, saw his father lying on the
bed.  Again and again he called, but getting no answer, realized the cause, and
ran back to town and told his friends that his father was lying on the bed and
looking very pale, and would not answer him.  Charley Neth and John Grandon
drove to the ranch, and Fred Stauffer, Jr., took Dr. Kent along.

They found the door locked, as reported by the boy, and Mr. Lorentz lying on the
bed a corpse.  It appears that while hitching up the team to come to town, he
was kicked and trampled upon by the horses, as there were wounds on the head
which indicated that the skull had been fractured.  Doubtless dazed by the kick,
Mr. Lorentz went to the house, locked the door inside, took off his boots and
lay on the bed, where he evidently died in a few minutes, and without a struggle.

Deceased came to Winnemucca from Alsace, his native land, about eight years ago.
 He was an industrious, inoffensive man, and he leaves a widow and three
children to mourn the loss of a kind husband and indulgent father.


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