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Door County Advocate
Sturgeon Bay, WI
Friday, October 8, 1920


           DEATH OF ALBERT BRAUNSDORF.
           
           Injured Six Weeks Ago on Stone
           Barge Adriatic, Dies in Manitowoc
           Hospital.
           
           ALBERT BRAUNSDORF died in a Manitowoc hospital
         last Saturday from injuries received on August
         27, the remains being brought to his home in this
         city and the funeral held on Wednesday afternoon
         from the German Lutheran church in Sawyer, Rev.
         SCHUMANN conducting the services. Interment was
         in the Clay Banks cemetery.
           ALBERT BRAUNSDORF was captain of the stone
         barge Adriatic of the Leathem & Smith fleet and
         one (sic) the night of August 27th the craft
         caught fire while at the dock in Manitowoc. As
         he came on deck the big derrick boom, weighing
         several tons, fell from the spar, and striking
         CAPT. BRAUNSDORF, pinned him to the deck. He
         sustained a fracture of the skull, and the bones
         in one leg were completely crushed. Since that
         date he had been in the Manitowoc hospital,
         making a fight for his life. He was unconscious
         part of the time, and his condition such that
         amputation of the limb was impossible. His con-
         dition had improved somewhat last week, and
         fearing further delay he was placed under an
         anesthetic and the limb amputated. He did not
         regain conciousness, dying under the anesthetic.
           CAPTAIN ALBERT BRAUNSDORF was born in the
         town of Clay Banks June 11, 1885, being 35
         years of age at the time of his death. He had
         been a resident of Door county since birth,
         and followed the water since boyhood, and was
         well known in many ports along Lake Michigan
         and Green Bay.
           In 1910 he was united in marriage and is
         survived by his wife and a 7-year-old daughter,
         also his parents and five brothers and five
         sisters.
         
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