The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-04-10
SEARCH WITHOUT SUCCESS
FOR BODY OF WIN. HARVEY
FrOstburg Man Believed to Have
Jumped from Glendale Bridge,
Deep Creek, Last Friday

neer William Harvey, aged 81 years,
of Frostburg, believed to be at the
bottom of Deep Creek Lake, about
seven miles from Oakland, continued
without success today, the sixth day
since his car was found on Glendale
bridge, across the narrows of the
lake.
Deep sea divers will arrive at the
lake at 2:30 this afternoon to begin
the work of exploring the bottom Of
the lake in the vicinity of the bridge.
The divers are employees of the firm Of
the Brown Salvage and Derrick Cor
poration, Baltimore, and are being
brought here through the efforts Of
the State Industrial Accident Commits
sion.
The cost of securing the services Of
the divers is being borne by friends
and business associates of the miss
ing engineer. They will have with
them the latest improved equipment,
consisting of about two hundred feet
of air line and two hundred feet Of
life line, equipment for the genera
ton of electric current and other nee
essary machinery. The assistance Of
intelligent laborers will be required.
Allegany and Garrett county au-
thorities, aided by volunteers, have
been dragging and dynamiting the
lake for several days in efforts to
locate the body of the missing man
who left his home at o'clock FRI
day morning and has not been seen
since about o'clock that afternoon
when he parked his car in the center
of the bridge. He was in Oakland
on Friday morning and in Grantsville
at noon where he ate dinner with his
brother, John Harvey, at the National
hotel.
Harvey was said to have been wor-
ried in recent months because of i'll
health and had been in Johns Hopkins
hospital, Baltimore, for examination.
He drove away from home on Friday
morning without indicating where he
was going or how long he intended to
stay.
Dynamite Lake
While parties of men dragged the
lake from the bridge and from several
boats, other groups secured the near
by woods for some trace of the miss
ing man. Permission to use dynamite
in the lake was granted by the State
Conservation commission. The bot
tom of the artificial lake is covered
with tree debris, leading searchers to
believe the body may be held at the
bottom. The lake is about fifty feet
deep under the bridge at that point.
Papers and Money on Seat
Sheriff w. D. Casteel, of Garrett
county, found Harvey's pocketbook
containing $135, and package Of
papers, on the front seat of Harvey's
machine, with the back of the seat
folded down over the money and
papers. An overcoat and other arti-
cles were found on the back seat.
Parked Car Friday Afternoon
Harvey's car, according to Earl
Harvey, a farmer of Swanton, was
driven on the bridge between 2:3O
and o'clock Friday afternoon. He
said he drove over the bridge atI2:3O
and there was no car there but when
he recrossed the bridge at o'clock
the machine was parked on the right
side of the bridge, facing Swanton.
The missing man was also seen, smok-
ing a cigar, in the machine, by occu-
pants Of the cottages along the lake.
The authorities were not notified until
Saturday morning when it was dis
covered that the car had not been
moved since early Friday afternoon.
States Attorney William A. Hun
ter and Torrance j. Boyle, county in
vestigators; Sheriff William A Har-
vey, nephew of the missing man;
and Deputy Sheriff James McGregor,
all of Allegany county, aided the Gar
rett county authorities in the investi-
cation. The rescue car of Cumber-
land, equipped with apparatus needed
in drowning accidents, etc., was
brought to the lake by Frederick c.
Dreyer who directed the search.
The missing man has a wife and
three young sons; also five brothers
and two sisters, of Frostburg and
Shaft, Md. Harvey was born in
Frostburg and graduated from Beall
High school in 1896, and West Vir-
ginia University at Morgantown in
1901. He had been engaged in mining
engineering and surveying in both
Garrett and Allegany counties for
number of years and is widely known.