Bio: Knebel, C. (Horse Death - 1886)

Contact: Robert Lipprandt

Email: bob@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Knebel, Taylor

----Source: The Tribune - Phonograph (Abbotsford, Clark Co., Wisconsin) Wednesday, February 8, 2012, page 2

Note: Original coverage of the fire was published in the Colby Phonograph, Thursday, February 11, 1886

An engine and caboose running ahead of the northern bound passenger last night struck a horse belonging to C. Knebel, just south of the depot.

There were three of them back of charley Taylor’s place, and when the engine crossed the switch, they started to cross the track, Two of them got across all right but this one jumped on the track just ahead of the engine and not much more than struck the track before the engine struck, him, breaking one foreleg and both hind legs.

The horse had to be killed and is a severe loss to Mr. Knebel, who has the sympathy of the community.

In this connection it would not be out of place to speak of the careless manner in which trains run through this village.  Not a day passes that trains run though the village at from 12 to 20 miles per hour, and the engine that struck this horse was running at the rate of 12 miles per hour when it struck him, but the engineer immediately slowed down and passed the depot at about the statutory rate, six miles per hour.