A Fatal Plunge on Battery Street
A tragic accident claims the life of a Seattle local after a fall from a bedroom window.
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A cleaned-up reading of the newspaper page: spelling and layout repaired, one story lifted off a crowded page. It follows the original closely but it is not a transcription. The original page is below; read it if a detail matters.
W. H. Wintler, wharf master of the steamboat line and shoe store of Wintler & Co., on Battery street, fell from a second story window of his residence on Battery street this morning, and was instantly killed. Deceased was 32 years of age, and leaves a wife and two children. It is believed that the deceased, at the dead of the night, fell, being out of the window unconsciously while in his sleep. His neck was broken by the fall.
“His neck was broken by the fall.”
The tragic death of W. H. Wintler, a local merchant, highlights the vulnerability of early Seattle residents living in rapidly built housing. Battery Street, now a busy thoroughfare, retains little of the domestic character that existed in 1885.
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