OTTO SCHINKEL KILLED TRYING TO GET SEAT ON CAR - BROTHER SEES PROMINENT BREWER FALL TO DEATH AS VEHICLE STARTS UP
(San Francisco Examiner, January 27, 1907)

What follows is typical of the macabre tabloid journalism of the day and is not for the faint of heart. Read on, but at your own risk!

"Otto Schinkel killed" was written yesterday on the "fatal accident" book that is kept by the United Railroads.

Schinkel, a brewer residing on Bryant street, was killed by a Bryant-street car just below Twentieth street shortly after noon yesterday as he was attempting to take a seat on the open side of the vehicle. The first wheel crossed his chest and the heavy trucks crushed his skull before Motorman J.N. Swope could stop the car.

Motorman, conductor and passengers jumped to the man's aid. By main strength they lifted the car. He was already dead, however, and terribly mangled.

A brother, J.H. Schinkel, was standing on the corner, less than fifty feet away, and saw the accident. He ran frantically to the scene and with his own hands dragged the form of his brother from under the car.

J.N. Swope, the motorman, was arrested and charged with manslaughter. He was later released on $50 cash bail furnished by the railroad company.

Otto Schinkel [Jr.] was a prominent German brewer of this city. He was the owner of the Anchor brewery, located at North Beach before the fire and now being rebuilt at Eighteenth and Hampshire streets. He was a member of the Norddeutscher Verein, Norddeutsche Schutze Verein, Schleswig-Holstein Society, Golden Gate Aerie of Eagles, Red Men and the Brewers' Association. He was thirty-nine years old [actually, 37] and had been very prominent in German-American circles for many years. He leaves a widow and two children. A checkbook found in his pocket showed that he had $40,000 on deposit in the Citizens' National Bank.