Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-07-16
CONYERS BODY
FOUND LODGED
upon SANDBAR
HAD DRIFTED Three Miles
Discovery Was Made Wed.
nesday Morning

Searchers who, during three days,
had patrolled miles of Flint rivers
shores in a vain search for the body
of Mr.. Albert ]. Conyers, who lost
his life last Sunday afternoon while
in swimming with several of his broth
ers, had their faithful efforts reward
ed shortly before noon yesterday when
the nude body was discovered upon a
sandbar at a point nearly three miles
below the spot where the party of men
had gone in bathing.
The discovery of the body was made
by a party of men, of which Mr.. Err
nest Statham was member, and the
news was quickly impaired to others
who were patrolling the river both
ashore and by means of motor boat.
fOuH0 upon SduuDdIs
The body is said to have lodged in
the top of a fallen tree, and in the
removal of this obstruction by the,
searchers it was brought into view.
Decomposition had already set in, and
the remains were quickly prepared fol
interment at Lilly, village on the
Dooly county side, some seven miles
from the river. Interment there will
be temporary only, as at later date
1.-The body will be permanently buried
y elsewhere.
The point at which the body was
found yesterday was near the mouth
of Limestone creek, fully three miles
below Murray's Ferry, near which point
the men had gone in bathing.
Borne by Swift Current.
1t is believed now that the body
borne upon the angry current, was
carried several miles ere it sank. III
support of this theory the authorities
at Warwick and Albany had been ad
vised to watch out for it.
The colored ferryman at Burke 5
Ferry, twenty miles below the point
at which Mr.. Conyers was drowned
reported having seen a dark object,
resembling a package in a bag feat
that way the day before For time
it was thought this might have been
the dead body but this theory was ex
ploded in the fact that Mr.. Conyers
did not wear a bathing suit upon go
ing into the river Sunday afternoon.
Wire Netting in River.
Hoping to catch the drifting corps
the searchers here had stretched a
wire netting entirely across Flint
river at point below Murray's Ferry.
The netting is of fine mesh, so closely
woven, in fact, as to obstruct the pas
sage of fish killed by the explosion OF
dynamite by searchers after the BODY.
A man at Cordele who professed to|
be a professional sea diver, was en-
ployed in the search, but his equip
ment was not of the kind required in
. shallow water,
Man of Prominence Here,
The deceased, Mr.. Conyers, had re-
sided four or five years near Americus
and was highly esteemed. He resided
upon his farnlsnear Flint river, and to
m.his home had come recently his five
brothers, all men of prominence, to
enjoy a family reunion. The party,
with Mrs. A. ]. Conyers and children,
had gone to the river to enjoy thei-
dinner. After the meal, several OF tn2
brothers went to point some distance
I'D the river to go in bathing.
A. ]. Conyers soon found himself at
the mercy Of the angry current, and
called for help. James Conyers went
to his assistance and got him by the
shoulder, it is said, but he was wrested
away by the swift current and sank
in sight of his distressed brothers.
Search at Once Started.
The alarm spread quickly, and be-