Rochester, Monroe, NY
Union & Advertiser
Wed. Mar 23, 1870
DIED
In the State Insane Asylum, on the 20th inst., Patrick CAULEY, aged 5_ years.
-Funeral from the Immaculate Conception church Thursday morning, at 9 o'clock.
Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend.
At Palatka, Florida, on the 14th, Elihu COLEMAN, of this city, aged 58 years.
-Funeral from the family residence, No. 50 Lake avenue, to-morrow (Thursday) at
2 o'clock P. M.
In Perinton, on Monday, 21st inst., Rachael, wife of Deacon Thomas WILTSIE, aged
68 years.
-Funeral will be held to-morrow (Thursday), 24th inst., at the Baptist Church in
Pittsford, at 1 o'clock P. M.
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TERRIBLE CALAMITY
Drowning of Two Children -- A Thrilling Scene.
From the Troy Times, 21st
When Mr. COLLINS, removed his water wheel manufactory from Id_ Hill
to Thamesville, near Norwich, Conn., a short time since, his foreman, Jackson
BELL, accompanied him to Thamesville and took charge of the new works there. We
regret to learn from the Norwich Bulletin of Saturday last that on the preceding
day Mr. BELL met with a great affliction in the death of two of his children by
drowning. They had been to a bookstore to purchase some Sunday School books, and
were returning along the banks of the Shetucket river, when they missed their
footing and both slid down into the stream. A gentleman on the opposite bank saw
them go down, and giving the alarm rushed out with another person in a small
boat to their rescue. Other boats started out, and the children were rescued,
but not until the vital spark had fled. We quote from the Bulletin.
The boys by this time had drifted down the stream into the Thame to
a point about three hundred feet from the second angle in the Norwich &
Worcester Railroad Company's wharf, and were separated about two hundred feet
apart. GALE'S boat reached one of the boys, and reached down GALE lifted him
from the water, amid loud cheers from the crowd lining the wharves and banks of
the river. About a minute afterwards DENISON'S boat reached the other, and a
sense of relief was felt by the crowd, who had been anxiously watching the
floating, but just as Mr. DENISON reached over to lift the boy into the boat.
THE BOAT UPSET
and Mr. DENISON and Mr. RYAN were in the water by the side of the
boy they had tried to save. The crowd on the banks of the river were for a
moment more intensely excited than ever and shouted to the men to cling to the
boat. RYAN and DENISON soon appeared clinging to the bottom of the boat. RYAN
who was the best swimmer of the two, holding the boy's head above water. GALE
seeing the condition of affairs started to the assistance of the other boat, and
a third boat, large and capacious, manned by Ed. S. OSGOOD, George MAPLES and
Frank SMITH was nearing them as fast as their strong arms could propel it.
ALL SAVED AT LAST
GALE'S and OSGOOD'S boats reached DENISON'S about the same time,
and the two drenched men were taken into it with the two boys. One of the OSGOOD
crew took an oar and commenced sculling the big boat where the other two with
DENISON and RYAN were vainly endeavoring to restore the rescued boys to
consciousness, while GALE's boat took them in two.
THE LANDING
The crowd soon saw that the floating market in the rear of S. C.
OSGOOD'S, on Commerce street, was the destination of the boats, and here the
people commenced to congregate until they covered the wharf and filled up the
streets. The boys were taken into the market, while DENISON and RYAN started off
in search of dry clothing and a fire.
THE FRUITLESS ATTEMPTS AT RESUSCITATION
Doctors ABBOTT, CASSIDY and LINNELL who had heard the reports of
the drowning, in the street, and were on the wharf when the boats came in, took
charge of the unconscious boys, and assisted by a score of willing hands vainly
endeavored to resuscitate them. Blankets were taken from the horses on the
wharves and from the house of a kind lady in the vicinity. The drenched clothing
was stripped from them and artificial respiration was resorted to. Others were
chafing their cold limbs. Daniel LEE looked in, offered his services, and was
told that hot water and a big tub were wanted for a bath. He went away and
appeared in an incredible short space of time with the re__sities, and the cold
bodies were put, one after the other, into the warm bath. Electric batteries
were procured, and, in fact, nothing was left undone that medical skill should
suggest. It was a painful sight to see the anxious faces when the room was
hushed into silence by the orders of the physicians that they might ___ for the
faintest pulsations of the hearts of the inanimate forms about which they were
coll-ted, and then to see the expression of sorrow as the doctor said, no
evidence of life. For more than an hour they worked over them, with the
perspiration rolling off their faces and saturating their clothing, only giving
them up long after their judgment had told them further effort was in vain.
WHO THE BOYS WERE
Nobody knew who the boys were, with the light hair, the
intellectual heads, and the round chubby faces, so nearly alike in size and
appearance that many thought they were twins. A boy who had worked his way into
the market by the policeman who guarded the door, said they were the BELL boys,
he thought. A gentleman who knew them but had failed to recognize them, stripped
of clothing and rolled up in the course blankets, took a closer, sharp look at
them, said indeed they were Charlie and Elmer BELL, aged eight and ten years
respectfully, sons of Jackson BELL, who has recently removed from Troy and now
lives in Preston. Mr. BELL is the foreman of the Collins water wheel works at
Thamesville, where a messenger was despatched for him. He arrived just as the
doctors had given them both up, and his grief at the sight of his dead children
clicked tears, from all the bystanders. There was a large contusion on the
forehead and on the side of the head of Elmer, and it is supposed he struck
against a stone on the shore, and was senseless when he struck the water, but
Charlie was uninjured, and was heard to cry for help, and was seen to throw up
his hands while floating down the stream.
Rochester, Monroe, NY
Union & Advertiser
Wed Mar 30, 1870
A Rochesterian Killed By The Cars At Corning -- Intelligence was received last
evening that Thomas WHALEN, who resided at No. 30 Ward street and was lately
of the firm of Westfall & Whalen, proprietors of the billiard room 30 Main
street, was killed while attempting to get on the cars at Corning yesterday
afternoon. Deceased has a mother and brother residing on the homestead. He was
a good natured and genial young man, and his sudden and horrible death is a
severe shock to his relatives and friends. He was for several years an attache
of the late Louis Fox's billiard establishment.
The Elmira Advertiser of this morning says that
WHALEN jumped on the cars when they were in motion to come to this city, and,
on turning to wave an adieu to friends lost his balance and fell between the
cars, two of which passed over his hips and the lower part of his body,
crushing him in a horrible manner. The train was stopped and backed up to the
scene of the accident, and it was found that WHALEN was beyond the reach of
surgical aid. WHALEN was on his way to Elmira. As he left the hotel opposite
the depot in Corning he threw half a dollar on the counter, telling the
bar-keeper to treat his friends, as he might never see them again. The remains
of WHALEN arrived here this forenoon.
Rochester, Monroe, NY
Union & Advertiser
Thurs Mar 31, 1870
DIED
At his residence in West Henrietta,
this morning, from congestion of the lungs, Mr. Ebe___E KETCHUM, aged 73
years lacking five days.
-Funeral at the Baptist Church in
West Henrietta, on Sunday, at one o'clock P. M.
At his residence in Irondequoit,
March 29th, Dr. T. A. BLANCHARD, aged 59 years.
-Funeral from his late residence,
Thursday, 31st inst., at 2 o'clock P. M. Friends of the family invited to
attend.
At Corning, on the 29th inst.,
Thos. R. WHALEN, aged 24 years.
-Funeral will be held at 20
Jefferson st. to-morrow morning at 8 o'clock, and at St. Bridget's Church at
9 o'clock. Friends are invited to attend.
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