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- NF Gazette
Improvised Farm Machine Fatally Injures Six-year-old on Bergholtz Farm.
Six-year-old Genevieve Retzloff (sic), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thedore (sic) Retzloff (sic), Bergholtz, was fatally injured at 4:45 p. m. yesterday when she fell from a tractor operated by her father on his farm. and one of the rear wheels of the machine passed over her head, fracturing and crushing her skull. The father rushed the child to Memorial hospital but she was dead when she was carried into the hospital. Coroner W. L. Draper issued a certificate of accidental death after an investigation of the case.
The little girl was playing with two other children on the farm and called to her father, asking if she might ride the tractor. She and the other children climbed on a running board, the tractor having been improvised from an old automobile. Retzloff (sic) started off with the children on the running board, according to investigation by authorities. They enjoyed the fun of riding for a time and then the tractor struck a deep hole in the ground and lurched. Genevieve lost her hold on the car and was jolted from it to the ground, her head falling under the machine and one of the rear wheels passing over it. The other children maintained their positions on the tractor and were not injured.
Retzloff (sic) stopped the tractor and picked up the crushed form of his little daughter. Aided by another man, he rushed with her to the hospital but she was dead when he arrived there.
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