The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-06-24
FORMER OAKLAND BOY
DROWNED NEAR FAIRNONT
Wallace Boyer, Aged q Years, Son
of S. E. Boyer. Net Un:imeIy End.

! PSAIAS near dlTIIlOuI, w. Va, wal
lace Boyer, aged nearly twenty-five
years, son of Mr.. and Mrs. S. E. Boyer,
formerly of Oakland and grandson of
Mrs. Elizabeth Hinebaugh. of Oakland,
was drowned in the river near Fairmont.
/ An account Of the unfortunate mishap
I appeared in the Fairmont Times of Mon
day which we reproduce, as follows:
/ Wallace Boyer, young man about
p years Of age ard a resident of this
city, was drowned while in swimming
in the West Fork river few miles
above this city about 7:20 O'Clock last
night. Boyer together with Roscoe
Denham had just started to swim,a race
when he was seized with cramps and
/ soon sank. Efforts were made ito re-
cover the body after all attempts at
rescue had failed, but at an searly hour
/ this morning they had been tunsuccess-
/ full.
Bower, together with a crowd of
about fifteen men were at theitlittle
camp just this side of Tucker station on
the inter-urbau line They had spent
the greater part of the day there the
camp being known as the Stogle Max
ers Home. After supper the men were
lounging about enjoying themselves in
various ways. Boyer and Denham were
at some little distance from the camp
lying along the road in the grass. 1t
was just about time for the Clarksburg
car, coming to Fairmont to pass. Den
ham proposed that they swim a race
until the car came. A bet was made
and the two hurriedlv stripped and
Jumped into the river. They swan
/ across the stream and were starting the
race when Boyer suddenly began to call
for help. He quickly sank from sight.
Denham was unable to give aid. He
hurried to the shore, rushed up the bank
to the camp and soon the crowd there
were out searching for the body. All
efforts to locate it failed.
+ Where the young man went in the
river is close - feet deep. The water
is quiet with little or no current unless
it be a deep under current which may
possibly be sweeping towards the mouth
Of the river. 1t was thought by the
men at the camp that there was no cur
rent at all and that the body of Boyer
was lying at the bottom of the river at
the point where he went down. A
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was secured and an effort made to drag
the river, but the body was not recover.
ed.
Coroner Musgrave was notified by
telephone and he went up on the 9
O'Clock car. A further search was then
made, but still the body was not found.
Mr.. Musgrave returned to town on the
10 O'Clock car, secured better grapple
hooks and again left for the scene of the
disaster. Again the work of dragging
the river was taken up but it still prov
ed unsuccessful and at a late hour the
BODY had not been recovered"
Concerning the recovery of the body
The Times of Tuesday says:
''All night long the search was kept
up without avail Monday the search
was continued and about 9 o'clock the
body was reached with the graphing
hooks and pulled out of the water. The
body was not torn or disfgured by the
hooks. After being prepared for burial
at the Musgrave rooms the body was
removed to the home of his parents
where the funeral will be held at 2
O'Clock Tuesday afternoon. Rev. Mr..
Probst OF the Grace Lutheran Church,
will conduct the services, and the
interment will be in Woodawn lCeme-
terry.
Boyer was a popular young man and
had many friends in the city. He.came
here from Oakland, Md. His old home
was at Accident, Maryland, small
town in Garrett County about twenty
miles from Oakland He was a painter
by trade. He was the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. S. E. Boyer, of Fourth ward. He
leaves father and mother, four broth
ers. Clarence, a painter, Stanley, well
known CARPENTER. William and Harold,
small boys at home, and two sisters,
Mrs. w. H. Spedden and Miss Mary.
The bereaved family has the sympathy
of their many friends in this sad hour of
trial.
"All yesterday afternoon, following
the taking of the body of the unfortun-
ate young man to the rooms of the Mus
grave morgue, hundreds of friends of
the young man visited the place to view
the remains. There were hundreds of
people during the afternoon who stop
ped to look at the body of the young
man and express their sorrow at his
sudden death. "