About 5 o'clock P.M. on Saturday, the 10th inst., this young man, who came here on the 22d of November and went to work on the line of C.M. & St. Paul Railroad while at work on the pile-driver was instantly killed. The particulars are gleaned from parties who were, present at the Inquest held by Esquire Matteson.

He was upon the pile-driver managing the stick used as a rest for the hammer. A pile had been placed in position and the foreman asked the usual question, "Are you ready?" and was answered by Dapke, "all ready.'' The team started drawing up the hammer giving time for the rest to be removed, but when the hammer dropped the rest was not entirely out of the way, one end being drawn back under the man's arm or shoulder, and the other still in the way of the hammer. When the hammer struck the rest, the man was thrown or knocked from his place and fell a distance of thirty-five feet to the ground, and some ten or fifteen feet from the foot of the driver. In his fall his body struck a piece of timber turning the head and face downward, thus throwing him upon the frozen ground directly upon his forehead.

When his comrades came to him, in an instant thereafter, he was dead. The skull was crushed, and blood trickled from his ears and nostrils. Dapke was 20 years old and came from Falwater, Wisconsin. He was a good, quiet workman. The following is the jury's verdict:

Warren Township CARROLL COUNTY, STATE OF IOWA.
We the jurors, summoned to hold an inquest upon the deceased body of one Dapke, do hereby return our verdict. That the deceased came to his death by an unavoidable accident while working upon a pile driver, by falling from the same, on the 10th, day of December, 1881, on the line of the C.M. & St. Paul R.R. now being constructed through the County of Carroll and State of Iowa which could not be avoided by any person other than the deceased himself.

In witness thereof we, the jurors have hereunto set our hand, at Warren Township, Iowa this 11th day of December.
George W. Makepeace
Charles E. Dauk ?sp
T.S. McKenna