Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1909 — SHAFT TO GEORGE ECCLES [ARTICLE]

SHAFT TO GEORGE ECCLES

Plan to Honor Memory of Wireless Operator Who Lost Life. Shaw, Miss.. Aug. 31. —A fund has been started ■by Robert B. Carey, a telegrapher, for the erection of a monument for George Eccles, the wireless operator who lost his life In saving passengers on the steamer Ohio, sunk by striking a rock on the coaat of Alaska. The fund will be collected by operators throughout the United States and Canada. The United States Wireless company has been asked to contribute, as well as Thomas Edison and Andrew Carnegie, who are old-time operators.