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Sad Casualty :—The community was thrown into great commotion on Wed nesday evening, by the report that Geo. Fleming, son of David Fleming of this vicinity, a very bright sad promising child of about six years old, was lost and all endeavors by the entir population, during half the night, having failed to find him, the reluctant conclusion was come to that he had fallen into the river and been drowned, especially as he had been seen playing shout craft on the river in the course of the day. Sure enough, about eight in the morning he was found by the aid of grapnell books, drowned, 1st about at the spot where he was supposed to have fallen to the evening before, immediately below the bank land ing. Previously, a reward of $100 had been offered for his recovery. Singular ly enough, although there were numerous and more or less conflicting reports of his whereabouts, during the day, no one had seen him fall in, nor could any one give an account, satisfactorily, of where he was last seen. Poor little fellow, his sid fate will be a warning to many oth ers of like age, and also to their parents, to avoid like danger. At about the same time the alarm was raised, Ira Lattimer, son of David Lattimer, of about the same age, and also a voy eogeging child had a narrow escape, having fallen in and float ed under water the entire length of a flat boat lying at the wharf. He was discov ered by Mr. Rick Letziatz of the Ferry boat, who with great bravery and pres ence of mind, jumped into the river and rescued him by swimming, when almost gone. —Wellsburg Herald.
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Steubenville Weekly Herald
Steubenville, Ohio, US
Wed, May 10, 1865
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