Bio: Krause, Carl (Nearly Frozen - 1917)

Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Krause, Donahue, Redmond

----Source: Granton News (Granton, Clark County, Wis.) 14 Dec 1917

Krause, Carl (Nearly Frozen - 8 DEC 1917)

Carl Krause, a well-known farmer residing 2 miles south of here (Granton, Clark Co., Wis.), is in the Neillsville Hospital with hands, feet and face terribly frozen, and at this writing is in critical conditions. Krause went to Neillsville Saturday evening on the 5 o'clock train with the intention of getting repairs for his gasoline engine. The next of him here was that he had been found in a frozen condition near the Geo. Redmond residence on Court Street Sunday morning about 8 o'clock. Mr. Redmond's attention was called to a seemingly lifeless body lying in the ditch, and upon investigating found it to be the man above mentioned. Assisted by one Thos. Donahue, Mr. Redmond carried the frozen man into his house and made every effort to revive him, but soon found that he was beyond his assistance and notified the city authorities, who caused his removal to the Neillsville Hospital. Mr. Redmond had cut off the man's rubbers and shoes and found the feet and legs well above the ankle frozen, and looking just like marble. The hands, nose and cheeks and ears were quite as badly frozen.

Krause is a hardworking man and the father of a large family, but we are sorry to say, is a man who is given to drink. It is needless to say that he was under the influence of liquor on the night in question and had a generous supply of that stuff about his clothes when found. It was only last spring that Krause came near losing his life by being terribly burned while in an intoxicated conditions. That incident was largely responsible for closing up the saloon at Lynn, since.

Later -- Tuesday evening, Mrs. Krause was brought home from the Neillsville Hospital and a local physician, assisted by a trained nurse and Mrs. Krause, are since caring for him there, and as we go to press the extent of his injuries or the results there from are not known.