Surnames: RIEDEL

----Source: CLARK COUNTY REPUBLICAN & PRESS (Neillsville, Wis.) 05/09/1907

Riedel, Robert (1837? - 6 May 1907)

Monday night about 8 o'clock, Robert Reidel of the town of Grant, Clark County, was struck by a through freight train on the O?Neill Creek bridge, this side of Granton, and killed. Tuesday morning S.L. Marsh phoned over to Dist. Atty. Crosby, who was in Neillsville, asking to have an inquest held. The District Attorney and Justice Campman drove over, but on making inquiries it was decided that an inquest was not necessary. It appears that Mr. Riedel was walking home from Granton and was intoxicated. On coming to the bridge, a woman who had passed him on the track saw him get down on his hands and knees as if to creep across the bridge. Evidently he had been on the bridge when the train came, and had succeeded in getting outside the rails, but still close enough to be struck and killed. Deceased was about seventy years of age and was never married. He was an old resident of Grant, a man who was well thought of, his only fault being that he was a hard drinker at times.