by Darren McMannis | Jun 27, 1897 | Drowning
A Ride To Death Over Classen’s Dam Yesterday morning about 10 o’clock while boating above the dam at Claassen’s mill, eighteen miles northwest of here, Jacob Riesen, aged 21 and Abram Dick, aged 20, being unable to swim and the suction just below the dam being...
by Darren McMannis | Jun 27, 1897 | Drowning
A Ride To Death Over Classen’s Dam Yesterday morning about 10 o’clock while boating above the dam at Claassen’s mill, eighteen miles northwest of here, Jacob Riesen, aged 21 and Abram Dick, aged 20, being unable to swim and the suction just below the dam being...
by Darren McMannis | Aug 27, 1886 | Drowning
The two-year-old daughter of Oliver Bascom of Sedgwick City was drowned Friday afternoon (Aug. 27) in a water tank on the Hurd Ranch. The Newton Daily Republican, Newton Kansas. Monday, August 30, 1886. Page 4. This girl and her burial location is unknown. If she...
by Darren McMannis | May 22, 1886 | Drowning
Drowned While Swimming Christopher Johnson, a Santa Fe Employe, Meets his death at Emporia. Christopher Johnson, employed in the water service department of the Santa Fe, was drowned in the Cottonwood River near Emporia Saturday afternoon. Johnson came to this...
by Darren McMannis | Jul 2, 1883 | Drowning
Death of Little Eliza Phillips By Drowning A very sad accident, and one which should be a warning to others, took place last Monday forenoon, little Miss Eliza Phillips, only daughter of W.H. Phillips, manager of the Arcade hotel and railroad eating house in this...
by Darren McMannis | Apr 14, 1882 | Drowning
James Lewis, a man at the Poor Farm, who has been subject to fits, drowned himself last Friday afternoon (April 14) in the small creek which runs through the farm. Mr. Devlin left Lewis in the field harrowing while he went to the house a few moments, and on returning...
