Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-05-31
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On Saturday The JNTELLIeENcER stated
shae ths bodies Of two men had been found
h TIE canai at Collins station. Since that
more hes besn learned concerning the
anair. On Saturday morning, Demss Deib-
ler, ~ locktender st Collins. found the dead
bodies Of two men In the wickets Of the lock.
They were taken from the water and,
upcn examination, Il was found that both
men wore about 35 years Of age One
hsd . tran check with the number 3ls
upon H. and slo02 In money on his person.
The other had check numbered 1853, and
sass. AZ soon - the checks were discov-
cred II was believed that the men were em-
ployed at the York Haven paper mill, on the
York county side Of the river opposite
Coilina Word was sent to the mill and the
superintendent Of the works notified Deputy
Coroner M. w. Smith, of Conoy, who had
charge Of the bodies, that the one with check
3lS waa J. Hart and his companion was NJ.
Fogerty. Both had been paid in full for a
months work on Monday.
WE'RE DRINKING HEAVILY.
Il appears that after the men received their
nay they began drinking very heavily. In
the evening these two with three others, all
Of whom were under the influence of liquor,
started from Collins station to walk up the
tOwpath. About 8 o'clock canal boat
stopped at the lock at Collins, and the driver
said that he had seen five men, who
were drunk, sitting near the edge OF the
canal about two hundred yards above the
lock. At 10 o'clock another boatman re-
ported that he seen the men a little farther
up the tow path, they asked him tor knife
which ne did not 9sTe ,se some ,,ns ana a
dy, brought three OF the men to the Collins
telegraph tower. The men were very
drunk and wet and the officers said they had
taken them from the canal where they found
a lx..ss. .rsr1 I'm nrU-
ing these three men disappeared, but 1t is
said that one of them has been seen since the
bodies were found. In reply to question
concerning the matter he said: "We had
enough work to save ourselves"
A THEORY OF THE ACCIDENT.
The men had been talking on Monday of
leaving York Haven and going in search of
work to some other place. One of them spoke
of going over to Elizabethtown. The suppo-
sitiOn is that they laid down along the tow
path to sleep, when ore or perhaps more fell
into the canal and the others went to
their assistance. Deputy Coroner Smith
impannelled a jury consisting of Jacob NJ.
Hanlen, Benjamin. Dunkei, w. II. Abel,
Shaeffer Smith, George T. Wiseman and
David Metzler, and an inquest was held /.
The jury rendered a verdict OF " death from
asphyxia, the bodies being found in the
canal at Collins station with nc marks of vio-
lence upon them" After the inquest the
bodies were inferred at Collins by the depu-
ty coroner. Sunday morniug a brother
OF Fogerty, one of the drowned men,
came to Collins The dead man was
taken up and the brother identified him. 1t
appears that Fogerty was about 80 years old
and unmarried. His home was in Consho-
hockeD, Montgomery county, but he was of
a rowing disposition and preferred to roam
around the country rather than remain at
home. Fogerty's body was taken to Consho-
hocken for interment this morning by his
ts,k rIs.ra II ~
belonged and his body vets remains at Col
Inns.