Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-07-02
TWO DIE IN THE RIVER,
Thomas DoIan Takes Fatal
Sunday Plunge at
Moline.
CHARLES W. NGINLEY DROWNED
Thomas Kane Dies of Seif.In.
tlicted lnjuFies-.Four
lnquests.


port, employed as teamster on the
Fourth avenue paving, Moline. by the
Tri-City Construction company. was
drowned at Moline yesterday. He
and Loore Hall went out for a swim
in the river near the Twin-City Ice
company's houses near the govern
ment bulkhead. Hall jumped in first,
Dolan following a moment after.
Dolan came up once, and uttered
cry of distress, and then sank down
to death. 1t is supposed he was seized
with a cramp. The body was recover
ed and an inquest conducted by Cor
oner l.. V. Eckhart, the jury return
ing a verdict of accidental drowning.
Dolan boarded at 32S Railroad avenue.
Moline. On his person was found a
letter written to Maude Moore,
whose address is not given. She was
upbraided by Dolan for not reciprocal
ing his love.
Steamboat Hand browns.
Coroner Eckhart went to Cordova to-
day to hold an inquest over the body
of Charles W Mckinley. who was
drowned above that place Friday. He
was an employe on the steamer
Weyerhauser and his home was at
Easton, Penn. No relatives live here.
A Jury was impanelled consisting
of ID. Zimmerman, e. II. eager.
George lew. James Green, A. w.
Mallory and w. l.. Marshall. At the
inquest it was shown that deceased
was but - years of age and came of
a good family, one of his sisters be-
ing a graduate f'o n medical school
of Pennsy lvnnia He shipped on the
Weyerhauser June and was employed
in passing coal. Last Friday while
the boat was Just below the mouth of
the Wapsie, in passing along the edge
of the lower deck, Mckinley lost his
footing and fell into the water. A COM
panion sliced him by the hair. but the
current carried him away and he was
not seen again till the body was re-
covered Sunday. The Jury returned
n verdict of accidental drowning. AS
the body was too badly decomposed
to ship or keep until the relatives
were heard from, it was buried this
afternoon at Cordova.
Thomas Kane DIES.
Thomas Kane. who cut his throat
Saturday, died Saturday evening at
st Anthony's hospital at 9 o'clock.
Yesterday a coroner's jury consisting
Of w. A. Giles, Joseph Gutzweiler,
Thomas Cox, NJ. Hogan, Charles
Wheelan and George Sherrer viewed
the remains at Wheelan's undertake
ing establishment. The evidence
brought out the facts substantially as
stated in Saturday nights ARGUS and
the jury agreed that the deceased
came to his death from injuries in
fiicted by himself with suicidal in
tert. The funeral services were held
this morning at Wheelan's undertake
ing rooms. Interment was at CAL
vary.
Excitement Causes Heart Failure.
! Ruth Grennell, aged 10, daughter of
MI and Mrs. Carey Grennell, of Mo-
line, was found dead in an clubhouse
by her mother at $50 Saturday after
noon. Death was due to an attack of
heart failure, superinduced by excite
ment over the partial sinking of the
barge of the steamer Henrietta at
Muscatine last Thursday. on the oc-
casion of the excursion of the Moline
Baptists, Miss Grennel having attend
ed the excursion. She had always
been in poor health, her mind being
weak. These were the facts adduced
at the inquest held by Coroner Eek
hart.