Submitted by: Dan Rich

Nicholas Kronewitter

July 8, 1823 - Sept. 25, 1903

Mishawaka Enterprise 9/25/1903

The aged Nicholas Kronewitter Sr., of East Fourth Street, who was in his 81^st year, very feeble and whose mind has been failing of late, was a victim of a sad accident on Tuesday evening. It is supposed that the old gentleman had lost his bearings, as has frequently been the case, and wandered wetward on the street railway track and near the Orphans Home ravine he was struck by the extra 6 o’clock car and was hurled violently to the rocks below.

The victim was picked up in an unconscious condition and brought to the city where Drs. Doan and Bostwick attended to the injuries. It was found that several ribs were crushed in, and an arm broken. A severe scalp wound and several other severe wounds, sufficient, to proved, to result fatally.

Mr. Kronewitter was removed to his home where death relieved him from his suffering this morning. He leaves a wife, four sons, a daughter and two brothers.

Editor: On 1-1-1858 in Mishawaka, he married Margaret Weinkauf.