Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-07-29
RIVERS GIVE UP THEIR DEAD.
Thunder Brings Rodies TO the Surfac
When Dynamic Is IL effective

| Thunder Brings Rodies TO the Surface
| When Dynamic Is IL effective.
! Natural cannonading is the only power
that will force the waters to give up their
Dead" Coroner Mcdowell said to Pitts
burg DisI atch reporter.
| The coroner was taking of the dead who
! he contends, are always found floating in
| the rivers Immediately following severe
| thunderstorm
Dynamite and powder are often sue
cesstuily us~d to dislodge bodies in the
| rivers" the coroner went on but the
waters only respond TO natuer's cannon
adlnc
After the severe thunderstorm and cleo
tricai disturbance on the morning of May
| three bodies were found floating in the
rivers in Allegheny county, and each of
the three Iad attached to it MYSTERIOUS
story that is as weird as it is pathetic.
Several bodies, the coroner says, were
found floating in the river between Pitts
burg and Cincinnati, but those picked up
| within his jurisdiction each tells a sublime
| and eloquent story.
Just after daylight on the morning of
May 4 the body of Cornelius Schwaim was
found floating in the Ohio river at Mckees
| Rocks. The body was sent to the morgue.
On the same morning the body of Ma
thaniel Wycof was found floating in the
| Monongahela river near Eliz beth. Wyce #
mysteriously disappeared on April Is. He
was prominent young man at Ehzebeth
and his friends concluded at ones that he
had been dro vnded
The par ants of the young man employed
a dynamite company of Pittsburg to raise
t le body from the water. Over $500 lbs.
Of powder were exploded in the stream, but
to no effect.
Tie VIOLENT thunder of Tuesday NOR
ming did TIE work the explosions failed
to Go.
Ferdinand knrbcr was mill worker en-
ployed at W. D. Woods McKeesport mill
He lived across the river, just opposite the
mill He went to and from his work in
private skif.
On Saturday, April %, he received his
month pay, liquidated some debts he had
contracted in McKeesport and left party
OF his friends to go to his home. He YVES
never seen alive afterwards. He was dev ;
oted to his family His wife, with his
supper prepared, awaited anxiousy his
coming until nearly midnight Then b J
sounded an alarm, and before mo. ming his
empty sklf, turned bottom side up, was
found floating aimlessly down the stream
His wife was Frustrated for a time. Ga the
morning of April 26 her frinds found her
sitting ON the river bank where her hus-
band for nerly landed, still awaiting his
coming. The a arity that d ov, rt lken
her had broken her mental forces and she
was for time insane. She was taIen home
and for several days her life was desp aires
of, When she recovered she refused to be
reconciled until the body of her husband
was found.
ALI manner OF explosives were employed
to dlslodge the body and while the shots
were being fired that seemed to drain the
river to its channel, the discol 1late wife
sat wa ching On the river bank in the hope
that her dead husband might be low into
view. The explosives fllled Ia their pur-
pose, however, and the work of resurrec-
ton was only comp'e cd by the storm Of
| last Tuesday. Korber was - years d .
He had only been married a short time
h body was found floating in the ri, er at
Brown S station ust afte- day Wight on Tues
day morning, 1t was taken to the morgue
where, during the afternoon, it was iden-
tilted by the youns wife
When toe distressed woman was led into
he dead room, where her hui bands DO "
was arranged for inspection, the scene was
extremely pathetic. The young wife threw
herself upon the dead body and it was with
| difficulty that she was taken away She
took the body home with Der.
"The scientists will not agree with me
! that some shocks of thund.r dislodge dead
bodies in water,' the cJroner said, "but
my experience of ten years has convinced
me that electric shocks alone will disicd ye
the bodies. We rarely find bodies fl oati, G
| In the rivers in winter, and a severe thun-
der storm never fails TO develope a case
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