This is a Message Board Post. Reply to the message or author by clicking on the link below. *************************************************************************** MESSAGE: (#281465) David Schultz, tragic death 1920 <http://iagenweb.org/boards/clayton/obituaries/index.cgi?rev=281465> AUTHOR: S. Ferrall - IA DATE: 5/25/2010 at 23:54:24 Surnames: SCHULTZ,MILLER,HITCHINS Two Killed at McGregor McGregor, June 28 - Two persons were killed and two others slightly injured in a landslide at Pictured Rocks, near here, about three o'clock Sunday afternoon. Miss Ruth Miller, 18 years old, of Waterloo, and David Schultz, 12 years of age, of McGregor, were the victims, being buried beneath nearly fifteen feet of sand. The little boy was killed instantly, the impact of the slide crushing his skull. Miss Miller lived beneath the mound of sand for nearly twenty minutes. When rescue parties reached her she was dying. Owen Hitchins of Waterloo and a little boy who was standing close to David Schultz were slightly hurt. Miss Miller had accompanied Mrs. Ambrose Hitchins, Mr. and Mrs. F.O. Hitchins and their son Owen of Waterloo to Pictured Rocks for a Sunday outing. The little Schultz boy and his playmate were in the party and had been playing around the Rocks all afternoon. A few minutes before three o'clock Owen Hitchins, who was with Miss Miller, told her it was time to join the party and return home. "I only want to take one more picture of the beautiful sand," she replied as she stepped closer to the side of the cliff and set her camera. While she was getting her focus and the little boys were watching her, an overhanging ledge, without a moment's warning, crashed down, burying Miss Miller and the Schultz child. Hitchins and the other little boy were standing close by and received minor injuries. Nearly fifteen feet of sand fell and rescue parties were without tools to dig the victims out. Picnickers got down on their hands and knees and began digging the sand away with their hands and sticks. They worked for about twenty minutes before the first body was reached. The little Schultz child was found first. His skull was fractured. He was dead. Rescue workers dug down a few more feet before the form of Miss Miller, covered with sand, could be seen. As they lifted her out she breathed her last. She had lived beneath hundreds of pounds of sand for twenty minutes. Picnickers feared other bodies were beneath the sand and worked for nearly an hour in the search for vicims. When assistance from McGregor came the work progressed rapidly and every bit of sand that fell was turned over before the work was abandoned. Miss Miller was the daughter of John D. Miller of Waterloo, a contractor. He arrived in McGregor last night and accompanied the body of his daughter home. Miss Miller had registered to enter Iowa university this fall. David Schultz was the son of Charles Schultz, a McGregor farmer. ~Postville Herald, July 2, 1920 ~I didn't see a Schultz obit in the Postville paper, there may have been one in the local newspaper