The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-07-19
YOUNG SOLDIER
LOSES HIS LIFE
At ST. S|MONS
PRIVATE GARNER OF COMPANY
D. DROWNED MONDAY
NJ G n T.
His Body Found Late Yesterday After
Noon Under the Pier-Remains
Forwarded to Atlanta Last Night.
Comrades Gloom-Stricken.

The members of the Fifth Georgia
regiment, who are in camp on st. 81
mon, are bowed in sorrow this morning
over the death of one of their mem
bers. The accident which caused the
death of the young soldier has been
the only mishap to mar the pleasure
of the encampmeDt, which has been
such an enjoyable affair for the sol
diers, and which was being enjoyed
as much by the unfortunate private
as any member of the regiment.
Private E. Garner of company d,
Atlanta, is the missing member. To
day his remains will be laid to rest
in Atlanta. Little was lit thought by
relatives and friends of the soldier,
who left Atlanta with his company
Saturday night that he would return
this morning cold in death, but such
is the case.
Young Garner, who was only %
years of age, lost his life in the surf
near the pier Monday night, but how
he was drowned will never be known
He, together with several other mem
bers of the regiment, were enjoying
surf bath They went into the surf
about $50 o'clock. He undreSSed at
his tent, leaving his money, watch
and other articles in the tent. BY
10 o'clock there was a large number
of soldiers in bathing. Many of them
were walking to the end of the pier
diIrin of uiY11r n
Young Garner was among them. H
seemed to enjoy the surf as much as
any person on the island and was
making merry with the other surf
bathers.
Finally they all returned to their
tents and retired for the night, but
Garner was missing. Little attention
was paid to his absence Monday night,
but when he failed to report for duty
yesterday morning it was feared that
he had been drowned the night be-
fore.
Company D, of which he was mem
Der, was excused from duty for the
day and all day long the members
of the company patrolled the beach,
watching for the dead body of their
comrade to wash ashore, but it seemed
that the ocean was refusing to give
up it's dead.
Yesterday afternoon at 4.45 o'clock
the steamer Atlantic was at the pier.
AS she prepared to leave on her re-
turn trip to the city the dead body
was seen to rise, having been churne
up by the water from the propeller
wheel. 1t was at once known that it
was the body of the missing soldier
and as quickly as possible the body
was secured, placed aboard the
steamer and brought to the city. The
remains were turned over to Vickers
& Mann, the undertakers, who pre-
pared the body for burial, and the re.
mains were shipped to Atlanta last
niEht, accompanied by a detachment
from the company.
1t was1 supposed that young Garner,
in diving from the pier, struck some.
thing in the water, which caused his
death, but there was no bruise or
mark of any kind to indicate that he
had met death in this way. 1t is now
supposed that he was either stricken
Ill while in the water or that, not
being a good swimmer, he was unable
to make the beach after jumping from
the pier
The death of the soldier has caused
genuine sorrow among the other mem
bers of the regiment. He was one
OF the most popular members of
company and his death is keenly
felt by the fellow members of this
company.