Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-16
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
Sad Details of the Thousand Is
lands Drowning.
The Boys Were Probably Making Prepa-
rations for Taking Bath When the
Boat Capsized.


The Kingston Daily News of las
Monday gave the following accoun
of the drowning of Th IS. McCullocl
and Geo. w. Alwell:
Sunday was an eventful da.
among the Thousand Islands, ant
though it is usually, for the summe
visitors, the brightest and happies
one out of the seven, it was yesterda.
shrouded in gloom, as the news of
sad tragedy, enacted in-the vicinit.
of Alexandria Bay, was whispered
from mouth to mouth. Very seldom
are men brought face to face will
their Maker more Unexpectedly ant
with such awful suddenness as Thos
McCulloch and Geo. w. Alwell, 0
Clarksville, Tenn, yesterday morn
ing. They came through to the Bay
on the r. q o. steamer, Corsican
which reached there at 7:45. Imme
diately upon their arrival they regis
tered at the Bay View House, anC
were assigned room No. II by thC
proprietor, Mr.. p. j. Baker, of Oswe
go, N. Y. After taking breakfas
they inquired as to when the mex
mail boat would call there, and hav
ing satisfied themselves on this point
they ordered a lunch to be put up
and at ten o'clock repaired to 8
neighboring boat house. Here they
secured small rowing skiff, and
left word with the owner that they
were going to make short excursion
among the neighboring islands and
that they would return in the after
noon. This, however, was the last
time they were seen alive. They
roWed around the head of Harts Is.
land, which lies near the Bay, and
here it was they met their death.
About l1:30 o'clock Captain Andrew
LIE Lair, in the yatch Daisy, was pas
sing bay in the head of the island,
when he noticed the body of man
floating in the water and skifl
turned bottom side up on the shore,
which was but few fet { distant. He
proceeded at once to the spot, and by
this time several other boats put in
an appearance.
"It was soon discovered that the
body of another man was lying at
the bottom OF the river in about
eight feet of water. He was brought
to the surface in a very few seconds,
and now very peculiar thing hap
pened. A justice of the peace, who
was on hand, refused to allow the
bodies to be taken on board any OF
the yachts, so that an effort
might be made to resuscitate them.
They could not have been in
the water very long, and if the
proper restoratives had been admin.
istered one or both might have been
saved. Anxious to preserve the let
ter of the law, whether it entailed a
sacrifice of human life or not, some
misguided men tied ropes uUder the
arms of the two strangers and towed
them, like so many logs, to Alex
andria Bay. They were carried into
Cornwall Bros. freight sheds, and
here, on the principle OF locking the
stable door after the horse is stolen,
DR.. Cole, resident physician, and a
doctor from Washington, ID. c., made
an energetic but unavailing attempt
to restore them to consciousness.
They were fine looking young fel
lows, well dressed, aud each posses
sing magnificent physique. In
McCulloch pockets were found
gold watch, 800 in bills,
and card on which was writ
ten the following: ain case of
dCCIutut w IIlC WilO W. L' htSui> :
loch, Clarksville, Tenn" aud also
giving short description of himself,
his name and age, which was 20
years. His comrade, Alweil, sp-
peared TO be a man of about q years
of age. Immediately on discovering
this note Mr.. JAS. II. Cornwall, who
was acting as undertaken, FOLLOWED d
out its instructions. He also request
ed Mr.. Thomas Roman, of Kingston,
who was spending the day at the
Bay, to thoroughly embalm both
bodies, which he accordingly did
Mr.. Baker, of the Bay View house,
stated to News reporter that the
young man had impressed him very
favorably, and that their drowning
was great blow to him. DIR. E
Eddy, the coroner, appeared on the
scene about $3.50 p. m. and then the
possible causes of the accident were
discussed. AS McCulloch was found
with his boots and socks off 1t was
rumored that they were making
preparations for taking bath, had
capsized the toat accidently, and moi
being able to swim had gone to the
bottom. The action of the Justice o
the Peace and the delay in the at
tempt to restore the two men to life
were generally condemned.
NOTE.