KILLED BY FALLING GATE
Waterloo Lad Meets Death at Entrance to Dairy Show Grounds
Waterloo, Oct. 2 – Donald Ames, age 10, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Ames, 1142 Wallgate Avenue was crushed under the entrance gate of the Dairy Cattle Congress grounds Sunday afternoon shortly before 2 o’clock and almost instantly killed. The gate fell outward, impelled by a gust of wind, and Donald was caught under the heavy sign which topped the gate. His head was crushed and one leg broke. As men nearby raised the heavy frame from the body, and the boy was removed, the blood gushed from his mouth. He was immediately placed in an automobile, but the lad died before it had fully gathered speed for the race downtown to a physician.
Donald, with an older sister and younger brother, had left their home to go to the Cattle Congress grounds, that the sister might place an exhibit in the canning demonstration display. While the two boys waited at the gate for the return of their sister – the only one of the trio admitted to the grounds as having business there – the accident occurred.
C. J. Campbell, San Douci park, was in charge of the gate at the time, and had just stepped in front of the barrier to warn a man that he could not enter and also to test the strength of the uprights supporting the gate, when there was a warning cry, “Look out,” and the frame started to fall. Campbell, in his position, was compelled to force his way thru a narrow aperture between the iron gates to escape, while the man whom he had just warned, Charles Ellis, 903 Washington street, started to back away as he heard the cry. His progress was slow, as he could not see anything immediately to “lock out” for. He just cleared the outer edge of the top of the sign as it brushed by him, grazing his head and striking his right side and hip, inflicting severe bruises. In his position, he had his back toward the boy. For an instant there was a death-like hush. Then someone of the several persons standing by cried out that someone was under the sign.
Ellis, altho yet dazed, dragged the boy from under the weight, as several men partially lifted it.
Evening Time-Republican, Marshaltown, Iowa, 2 Oct 1917, page 3
Waterloo Lad Meets Death at Entrance to Dairy Show Grounds
Waterloo, Oct. 2 – Donald Ames, age 10, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Ames, 1142 Wallgate Avenue was crushed under the entrance gate of the Dairy Cattle Congress grounds Sunday afternoon shortly before 2 o’clock and almost instantly killed. The gate fell outward, impelled by a gust of wind, and Donald was caught under the heavy sign which topped the gate. His head was crushed and one leg broke. As men nearby raised the heavy frame from the body, and the boy was removed, the blood gushed from his mouth. He was immediately placed in an automobile, but the lad died before it had fully gathered speed for the race downtown to a physician.
Donald, with an older sister and younger brother, had left their home to go to the Cattle Congress grounds, that the sister might place an exhibit in the canning demonstration display. While the two boys waited at the gate for the return of their sister – the only one of the trio admitted to the grounds as having business there – the accident occurred.
C. J. Campbell, San Douci park, was in charge of the gate at the time, and had just stepped in front of the barrier to warn a man that he could not enter and also to test the strength of the uprights supporting the gate, when there was a warning cry, “Look out,” and the frame started to fall. Campbell, in his position, was compelled to force his way thru a narrow aperture between the iron gates to escape, while the man whom he had just warned, Charles Ellis, 903 Washington street, started to back away as he heard the cry. His progress was slow, as he could not see anything immediately to “lock out” for. He just cleared the outer edge of the top of the sign as it brushed by him, grazing his head and striking his right side and hip, inflicting severe bruises. In his position, he had his back toward the boy. For an instant there was a death-like hush. Then someone of the several persons standing by cried out that someone was under the sign.
Ellis, altho yet dazed, dragged the boy from under the weight, as several men partially lifted it.
Evening Time-Republican, Marshaltown, Iowa, 2 Oct 1917, page 3
KILLED BY FALLING GATE
Waterloo Lad Meets Death at Entrance to Dairy Show Grounds
Waterloo, Oct. 2 – Donald Ames, age 10, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Ames, 1142 Wallgate Avenue was crushed under the entrance gate of the Dairy Cattle Congress grounds Sunday afternoon shortly before 2 o’clock and almost instantly killed. The gate fell outward, impelled by a gust of wind, and Donald was caught under the heavy sign which topped the gate. His head was crushed and one leg broke. As men nearby raised the heavy frame from the body, and the boy was removed, the blood gushed from his mouth. He was immediately placed in an automobile, but the lad died before it had fully gathered speed for the race downtown to a physician.
Donald, with an older sister and younger brother, had left their home to go to the Cattle Congress grounds, that the sister might place an exhibit in the canning demonstration display. While the two boys waited at the gate for the return of their sister – the only one of the trio admitted to the grounds as having business there – the accident occurred.
C. J. Campbell, San Douci park, was in charge of the gate at the time, and had just stepped in front of the barrier to warn a man that he could not enter and also to test the strength of the uprights supporting the gate, when there was a warning cry, “Look out,” and the frame started to fall. Campbell, in his position, was compelled to force his way thru a narrow aperture between the iron gates to escape, while the man whom he had just warned, Charles Ellis, 903 Washington street, started to back away as he heard the cry. His progress was slow, as he could not see anything immediately to “lock out” for. He just cleared the outer edge of the top of the sign as it brushed by him, grazing his head and striking his right side and hip, inflicting severe bruises. In his position, he had his back toward the boy. For an instant there was a death-like hush. Then someone of the several persons standing by cried out that someone was under the sign.
Ellis, altho yet dazed, dragged the boy from under the weight, as several men partially lifted it.
Evening Time-Republican, Marshaltown, Iowa, 2 Oct 1917, page 3
Waterloo Lad Meets Death at Entrance to Dairy Show Grounds
Waterloo, Oct. 2 – Donald Ames, age 10, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Ames, 1142 Wallgate Avenue was crushed under the entrance gate of the Dairy Cattle Congress grounds Sunday afternoon shortly before 2 o’clock and almost instantly killed. The gate fell outward, impelled by a gust of wind, and Donald was caught under the heavy sign which topped the gate. His head was crushed and one leg broke. As men nearby raised the heavy frame from the body, and the boy was removed, the blood gushed from his mouth. He was immediately placed in an automobile, but the lad died before it had fully gathered speed for the race downtown to a physician.
Donald, with an older sister and younger brother, had left their home to go to the Cattle Congress grounds, that the sister might place an exhibit in the canning demonstration display. While the two boys waited at the gate for the return of their sister – the only one of the trio admitted to the grounds as having business there – the accident occurred.
C. J. Campbell, San Douci park, was in charge of the gate at the time, and had just stepped in front of the barrier to warn a man that he could not enter and also to test the strength of the uprights supporting the gate, when there was a warning cry, “Look out,” and the frame started to fall. Campbell, in his position, was compelled to force his way thru a narrow aperture between the iron gates to escape, while the man whom he had just warned, Charles Ellis, 903 Washington street, started to back away as he heard the cry. His progress was slow, as he could not see anything immediately to “lock out” for. He just cleared the outer edge of the top of the sign as it brushed by him, grazing his head and striking his right side and hip, inflicting severe bruises. In his position, he had his back toward the boy. For an instant there was a death-like hush. Then someone of the several persons standing by cried out that someone was under the sign.
Ellis, altho yet dazed, dragged the boy from under the weight, as several men partially lifted it.
Evening Time-Republican, Marshaltown, Iowa, 2 Oct 1917, page 3
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