Obit: Arndt, Carl (1948? - 1952)

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Surnames: Arndt

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 10/30/1952

Arndt, Carl (1948? - 30 OCT 1952)

Little Carl Arndt, four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Arndt, Withee (Clark Co., Wis.), was killed instantly at 12:05 this afternoon when the farm tractor he was riding with his father overturned, pinning him beneath its wheel.

The Arndt’s live on the Frank Gay farm three miles southwest of Withee where Mr. Arndt is employed.  Mr. Gay had recently built a new house and Mr. Arndt was busy using a powered scope shovel fixed to the front of a large Model M. McCormick tractor in the process of landscaping the lawn about the house when the accident occurred.

In backing around while at work the wheels of the tractor backed into the fairly deep ditch to the west of the house, causing it to turn completely upside down.  Carl was not thrown clear of the tractor but instead pinned beneath one of its large wheels.

Owen’s ambulance was called to the scene, as were Dr. J. W. Johnson and Bergstrom’s wrecker.  Death was almost instant as the tot was dead by the time any help arrived.  His body was freed when his father rushed to the road to a neighbor, borrowing his tractor to enable him to raise the machine off the youth’s body.

Surviving the youth’s tragic death are his parents, one brother, Allen, age 2, and a sister, Diane, who is five months old.

No funeral services have been set yet.