The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-07-15
THE RIVER GIVES UP
e MORGAN'S BODY
News Of Its Recovery Received Yes
terday Forenoon-story Of the
Drowning - Funeral This After
noon

y
Drowning - Funeral This After
noon.
The body of William David Morgan,
;ho was drowned In Cedar Rift, along
The Delaware river. on Friday last. was
ecovered Sunday night. The grateful
,ews came in q telegram to this city
yesterday forenoon
When the searching party from TINS
,ty, composed of George Benton, AL
bert Rutherford John Morgan, Silas
McMulen, William Swigort, Maurice
Watt and Claude oliver and Mr..
Owens, of Forest CITY, t Shohoia
Sunday night. instructions were given
those who were assisting IN the search
to pcrsevere in the work The con-
tinued efforts were successful. blast
of dynamite dislodging ,he body and
causing it to float down the riverWhere
t was caught by the barbed wires
stretched across the river about mile
below Cedar Rift
Albert Crane and Rexford Lathrope,
, Morgans companions, and Maurice
Watt left Immediately after the receipt
. of the news for Shohola. to attend the
coroncr's inquest and to prepare the
DOny !Of Durlal.
The deceased reached here last night
on the 1910 Delaware and Hudson
train, coming over the Erie and WNo-
ming Valley division of the Erie to
Scranton.
The funeral will take place today
Services will be held at the Morgan
home, Salem avenue and Spring street.
commencing at p. m. by Rev. Charles
tl,- LN,,,.t T1,.Te +ffaysi siNt,
church. of which Morgan had been a
member for several years. Services
will be public. but burial, which will be
In Brookside cemetery will be private.
The obsequies will be attended by the
members of the Carbondale High
school, class of '02: the Carbonate Ten
mis- club, and DR.. w. w. Fletchers
Sunday school class of the First Pres
bytarian Sunday school.
TIE filling of the canoe was not due
to q leak, but to a wave which caught
he rear of the craft as it shot down
Cedar Rift, which left behind them all
the dangerous places in the river.
Crane and Lathrope, who were lightly
dressed having been in bathing further
up the river, struck for the Pennsyl-
vania shore. Morgan. who was fully
site direction, which was against the
current, while the others swan with
the current. Crane shouted for Nor
gan to follow him. but the latter evil
IDENTIFY did not hear the direction. In
the meantime. Lathrope, becoming
somewhat played out, having taken in
considerable water, shouted for help to
Crane. In the few minutes that fol-
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thrilling and heroic rescue. He took
Lathrope on his back and was SWIM
ming for the shore. when the canoe
paddle struck his foot. This he secured
and with it guided Lathrope along by
the chin, until Fortune sent the canoe
towards them. Crane, with most re-
markable presence of mind and with
strength borne of their desperate cir
cumstances, placed Lathrope in the
canoe, directing him to remain in it,
regardless of where it might drift.
Crane, forgetful wholly of himself,
turned to where he had seen Morgan
only an instant before. struggling
against the current but he was miss
ing; he had gone down. Crane con-
tinued to swim about and search for
Morgan, but to no avail. He sank with
out the least outcry, and was probably
rendered helpless by an attack OF
cramps. His heavy clothing was fac
tor in his helpleSsness. Lathrope, in
The meantime, lOated down the stream
.or half mile, when a farmer rescued
aim and worked over him for half an
hour to restore him. He was in an eX-
ha.nsted state for several hours.
The farmers in the vicinity refused to
assist Crane or Lathrope with money,
though they knew both young mems
belongings We're lost in the river,
Neither of the young men was sup
piled with clothing until their Carbon
dale friends arrived: and 1t was only
when reward of $l0O was offered by
j. l.. Morgan, of Bnghamton, an uncle
of the deceased and the Carbondalians
readily offered the farmers renuner-
alton, that they agreed to do any
searching.
Morgan intended to meet some friends
at Port Jervis, which accounts for his
being so fully dressed.
SCHOOLMATES ACTION.
The class of '02 met in the central
school building on Saturday afternoon
and took action on the death of their
beloved member, the late William Nor
gan. Two committees, one composed of
katie Purcell, Alice Morrison, Nellie
Crocker and Walter Lotus, were ap-
pointed to draw up suitable resolutions
IN his memory. another, Minnie Fin
eren, Maud Stephens and Walter Quinn,
to purchase appropriate flowers. 1t was
also decided to attend the obseauies in
body and have the class flag placed
at half-mast on the school flagpole.