Individual Details

Death

Carl Mardorf Killed On Fairview Farm South of Anamosa

Funeral services for Carl Mardorf, 35, who was killed during Thursday night's storm, were held an St. Paul's Lutheran chureh in Anamosa at 11 a.m. Monday. Interment was made at Oakwood cemetery. Monticello. Rev. H. Buesing, Lutheran minister, had charge of the services at the church and cemetery.
The death of this young man occurred at his farm home south of Anamosa about 7 p,m. Thursday. He had finished the chores and was attempting to get the horses into the barn when a severe wind storm developed.
Accidentally Drowned
Mr. Mardorf was in the cow-yard approximately 15 feet from the barn when the wind ripped off a part of the barn roof which landed squarely on top of him. He was crushed into the mud and water in the yard, face down. After his body was released from the debris on top of him, it was found that his lungs were full of water so that his death was caused by drowning.
His wife was in the barn at the time and realized that something had happened to her husband. She called in vain and finally secured a flashlight and found his body pinned under the wreckage from the roof. Her son, Dale, 10, called nearby neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Reese, who came to her assistance and helped pull Mr. Mardorf's body from the wreckage. The Reese home was in such bad shape that the family was com- pelled to stay in the Mardorf homo overnight. The windows in the house were blown out and plaster knocked off the walls.
Surviving Family
Mr. Mardorf is survived by his widow, who before her marriage was Margaret Caspers, a daughter of A. F. M. Caspers of Castle Grove township; two children, Dale, 10, and Jane, 7; three brothers, George and Gerhard of Monticello and William of Hopkinton, and a sister, Mrs. Anna Peters of Monticello. His parents were the late Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Mardorf. He was born near Sand Spring on the farm now operated by his brother, George Mardorf. His funeral was largely attended by relatives and friends.
In addition to unroofing the barn, a corn crib was wrecked, the shingles and roof torn off and the building tossed partly in a ditch and partly in the yard. The Mardorf home escaped damage.