Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 266, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1911 — STERNBERGS AND EMPLOREES MEET WITH BAD LUCK. [ARTICLE]

STERNBERGS AND EMPLOREES MEET WITH BAD LUCK.

tetr Narrowly Misses Death. I E. G. Sternberg & Son, the dredge [m en » Who are now working on a big contract in Missouri, still meet with /had luck occasionally. They are engaged in straightening the Nodanay *iver near Burlington Junction. They had the old channel dammed up for three hundred feet behind the dredge, the water being 16 feet deep. The heavy pressure caused the dam to give way and the two cabins, which were used for dining and sleeping quarters were swept away by the current. Among the employees was Mrs. M. E. Kellar, of Fair Oaks, the cook, her son and others from this Vicinity. She was in the kitchen and at the cry of alarm she started to leave the boat She was caught by the hands and dragged to land just as the boat was carried away,- barely escaping a watery grave. The houseboats and contents were; swept down river into the Missouri and were never seen again. Mrs. Kellar lost all her effects, including her trunks containing SSO in money, new clothing to the value of $75 and all her effects except the clothing she was wearing. The other employees also lost all their property, including new suits they had never been worn. While the cabins are being rebuilt Mrs. Kellar is making ber home with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Steinberg.