The Columbus weekly dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1902-1905, 1905-03-02
A POPULAR YOUNG MAN DROWNED.
Mr.. Henry III. Humphries Falls From the M. s o.
Bridge Pier Last Sunday and is Drowned

This community profoundly
appalling grief by the sudden
Mr. Henry HUMPHREYS Sunday at half
past splendid and promising
manhood holding positions of responsibility and trust in this city
beloved by large circle OF friends who recognized IN MN one OF
exemplary of younger citizenship
possessing confidence his end
shadow Of gloom and the city from which it
will take it long time to
Sunday morning HUMPHREYS whose arduous duties
Cum Opera House and Secretary and Treasurer
of the Machinery Company little time
y for recreation through his little rife and
& bridge pleasure He had
with friends meet them at his office at the Ma
chnery while waiting them he walked the
Mobile Ohio railroad bridge he was IN the center OF e ordse
south bound passenger train along He stepped
the pier there
until the train nearly past him His brothers. Messs Sam
the seeing Them Mr.
umphes brothers did recognize him
this autaton Mr. HUMPHREYS his life In
doing stepped inches and losing his balance
fell raging below He left his little rife
pier weight the struggle for
life The this point is swift
high the all
more eacherous Mr. Humphries was seen
disappear and he appeared dis
where he FELL He raised his hands and
iod 70 Mr. Toe owe leeper Of the bridge for help He was
good sustaining himself admirably when his
the of bank When they him he
middle the being carried RAPIDLY down the
his weaker and he diap
peared below the murky waters of the Bgbee few
several feet below again struggling
ia add then it disappeared and all was still
attracted the for help
rushed bridge the drowning They i'm
the until they could reach him with boat
Mr. HUMPHREYS
Immediately took
recovering body The machnists who had worked
HUMPHREYS and their hammers
they hooks and graphing irons
had been close and kind
Sunday the dagged but without avail
greatly swollen the channel deep the
and all of these efforts proved futile
Monday the workers search of the body
vigil dragging the where the drowning
the receded, paOing the
this and Offering rewards the people
living along of the body The brothers
Mesrs Gregory and Sam HUMPHREYS
accompanied friends secured gasoline launches yesterday
and went searching the body and putting
out patrols VIII keep watch for the
all probability be several days before the body is
this cold and it will perhaps be
rises the surface and then it
be carried down stream for miles
before The rapidly falling and this
friends of the dead hope that it
will greatly facilitate the recovery of his remains
The Banks Company wired Tuscaloosa for dyna
the
body understood that it will probably e used today
Henry the third oldest the late Capt w
HUMPHREYS of this and he of Columbus best known
universally esteemed OF fine mind and
empary his
larger He beloved by the
his abors had fallen he beloved the
this city in which he took such prominent
part Columbus who
recognized him straightforward honest manly
held forth the promise of useful and honorable
THE DISPATCH sympathy
to friends th who sud
dend a blow and to all who knew him.