Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-08-07
Local Young Business Man sustains Broken Back in
 Dive at Lake Chicot.
SPINAL COLUMN
 IS DISLOCATED
Injured Man Is Hurried to Local Sanitarium, But Operation Was Without Beneficial OutcOme.-
 Funeral This Afternoon.

Wilbur 'Bunn" OrtO, son of Dr. r. Orto. president of the Simmons Ma tional bank, and one of the most prominent young business men of Pine Bluff, died yesterday morning at $40 o'clock at the Florence sanitar- ;um of injuries received when he diyed into shallow water Saturday midnight in Lake <Chicot, near Lake Village. !.
 MT. Orto was a member of a party composed of Major l.. S. Edwards, Capt. ] l.. Culpepper, both of the United States army, stationed at Fort Logan H. Roots, B. B. Bloom, secre tarv of the Chamber of Commerce, snd son. Frank Bloom, and Mir. Win ston, secretary of Superintendent Ouellett of the Missouri Pacific. who went to Lake Village for days fish, ing.
 Major Edwards and Captain Cul- pepper had been in Pine Bluff exam ming the men who had been in the of ficers' training camp and expressed a wish Saturday to get a day off for al fishing trip, when it was proposed that they go to Lake Village for a day.
 The party left Saturday evening on the train arriving at Lake Village at 70 o'clock Judge Toney was at the depot and told the party they could go bathing from his pier, which was near at hand. They accepted the in vitaton. The board walk to the pier extended out about 50 feet, and the water from shore to the inner edge of the pier was shallow. At the outer edge of the pier was a very deep step-off.
 How the Tragedy Occurred.
 Frank Bloom was the first to spring into the water He stepped to log few feet from the pier, and went into deep water. Winston was close behind him, stepping on the log, and then jumping into the lake By this time Orto was ready for the wat CT, and dived from the inner side of the pier towards the shore. The bot tom is sandy, and the water only three or four feet deep, and as clear qs crystal. The night was clear and MC LII lSLlI do uoy.
 Major Edwards and Captain Culpep- i per were not ready for the water, and looking about saw Bloom and Win ston, but did not see Orto. Major Edwards called "Where's 'Bunny'?" end as he called, he saw his young friend in the water. He cried out quickly to Bloom, Frank, get Bun n.y."
 Bloom does not know how he reached Orto, but he went to him as quickly as he could and carried him up the ladder to the board walk.
 Orto was conscious, but paralyzed. He retained his power of speech, and when Bloom wanted to pump the wat CT out of his lungs. he told him that he knew what he was doing and had not taken in any water. He said, "l reel funny: I can't move a muscle or any thing" -!
 Captain Culpepper,, who is a physi-. clan and surgeon, gave him immedi- ate attention and ascertained there was dislocation of the cervical >ertebrae. Orto was taken in an auto- mobile to Superintendent Ouellett's pflvate car. in which they had gone 10 Lake Village, The morning train brought the party to Pine Bluff.
 The trip from the depot to the sani- 'arium was made as quickly as pos Slole. Everything that medical skill gould do was brought to bear. but the ih1ury was fatal and he died yester- say morning. in the very prime of a young and vigorous manhood
 Was Generally Popular.
 Wilbur Orto. or 'Bunn," 1" as he was talled by nearly all who knew him, .ae term being applied as a mark of ahectlon, was a young man of fine s.hafacter and personality which en- .eafed him to all with whom he came III contact. He was never known to speak ill of any one, and was quick .o respond to the promptings of a senerous heart. He won the love anu esteem of all, even those who Say Sllly Knew him by reputation. and the uep'orable incidents in connection "''h his demise, which cut down a
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