THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER
Submitted by Victoria Burton

 August Edward Dohme
As it appeared in June 16, 1915
page 11

One death and a vast amount of damage to signs, awnings, trees and other property was the toll gathered by the terrific wind and rainstorm which swept over Cincinnati yesterday afternoon.  Besides, there were water-soaked clothes, ruined dresses, and narrow escapes on the river, the rain coming so suddenly that those who were enjoying the unusually pleasant Sunday had little time to seek cover before the storm broke.

August Dohme, 55 years old, carpenter, father of eight children, of 315 Wayne Avenue, Lockland, was instantly killed yesterday afternoon when he attempted to pick up a charged electric wire that had fallen during the storm.  The accident took place in front of Dohme's home and was witnessed by a score of persons.

It was to save the lives of others that Dohme sacrificed his.  A number of small children were coming down the street, apparently in ignorance of the "live" wire lying on the pavement.  With a shout, which was his last one, Dohme ran, picked up the wire and fell over dead.  A blue haze was about his body.  The children, warned by the shout, stopped and their lives were saved.

Dohme's body was carried into the house by one of his grown sons and a doctor hurriedly summoned.  When he arrived, he told the family that life had passed from the body immediately on the touching of the wire.

Dohme was well known in the Millcreek Valley and was loved and respected by all for his fine traits.

The funeral of August E. Dohme of 315 Wayne Avenue, Lockland, Ohio, who was electrocuted during a storm Sunday in heroically saving little children from injury from fallen live wires was held yesterday at 1:30 o'clock.  Reverend Edward T. Swiggett, stated clerk of the Ohio Synod and Cincinnati Presbytarian officiated. Interment was at Spring Grove Cemetery.

In his verdict in the case of Dohme, Coroner Foetmeyer recommends that wires carrying high voltage should not be strung through heavy foliage.  The verdict states that Dohme met his death while trying to pick up the wire and prevent injury to others, but that this work should have been done by employees of the Union Gas and Electric Company.