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PoConTnea3MoIplrtBu3tor1N8 tOHa1 artFr(duonbriacicopa*ihathYesterday morn ins about ten o’clock Mr. Arthur Campbell and another young man went from the old steamboat landing at the Valley bridge to the middle pier in a skitf to fish for minnow*. The water is at such a stage that the stone ballast that surrounds the pier is dry for some eight or ten feet next to the pier. They left their boat ami were proceeding to the upper Hide when they discovered u small boy apparently asleep, but closer examination found that he was in a dying condition, the whole top of his head being crushed in. The unfortunate boy was identified as Alfred K. Lynn, aged thirteen years, a grandson of James J. Turk, who resides on the old state road | above the Valley depot. The boy w as put in the skitf, taken to shore and carried to the home of his grandfather, where he died at twenty-four minutes after one o'clock yesterday [afternoon.The more terrible facts of the case are as follows: Friday evening Alfred Lynn, the unfortunate boy, in company with Clifton Brundage and some other boys, • were playing on the Valley bridge ] Their gaiuc seems to have been “bide ! and seek.” and when six o’clock came most of the boy* went to their homes for supper, leaving Brundage and Lynn by themselves. From this] hour ull knowledge of the boy was lost until his] discovery at ten o'clock the next day.It seems that be and * Hritn-duge continued to play, and Alfred, had rrawied d lt;wn on the pier, under the tl-- r of the bridge to hide. Wheth-j •*r Bnmdage *nw him fall or not we*can* J not learn, as he hangs his headj and ! will not answer. Kitlier in going down j or coming out of bis hiding pla* e he i aught bis foot tie tween the stones ofthe pier, a'* the marks show, ami in attempting to wrench his fbot from its tnfasten ng he - ipped, missel hi- hold, I und fed to the atones below, a distance j■ of thirty feet, striking on the top of his , head tu 1 bruising bis skull to a jelly, i\s the blt;y w»*% always prompt at meal■ time, and failing to put in his appearance 1 relay evening a search and in-‘ uuiry were made but nothing could beiju* rtAllied of l.is whereabouts, only . r that the last seen of him tie was playing ;• the bridge. The search was kept up i all night but no tidings came of the *4 a1 tnisj-.'-g i l, an 1 he wa only flt; uml • at ►OVt* described He was taken home j 11 and a temporary bed constructed in c the l»*« k yard of tils foater ‘ h me tieneath the shade of a; ** ' i tittle tree where tie laid in an uncoil- jl* «* iou* t ndit lt;n until tie died Medical P aid arrived only a few moments before 1 he die 1 and lt;»uUl rentier no assistance '' whatever. I’he little fellow iwsaed i *i cil frico ; inkiInthc*IO!Viia iv very pnetly, no *igns of pain be 1 ig noticeable His deatti is a very sad p • me I \ • x ouly w ill the little b*» s w ho areals*)* jeopardizing their lives by am ti advent ire*- tie taught a leeaon uot i(is*on forgotten. Alfred w.is ati orphan, 1 tiia mot tier dvitig when tie was but eight w ee k s ul 1. and hi father died in td.il.i delptna some years later. He had lived ’ n with his grand parents since t»is liirtti, j * ami hi* ultimate death has made (tie old IC people feel very salt;l.• What w as the matter with some of the !'v dixtor* v% s * * * were -im moiled to the aid I it of little Alfred Lynn? It ssems rattier, strange that “tie would not go unless hen1,1 h td it « • nnpauy of auotht r.
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Oil City Sunday Derrick
Oil City, Pennsylvania, US
Sun, Aug 22, 1880
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