People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1893 — FATE OF A DIVER. [ARTICLE]

FATE OF A DIVER.

While Working on the Bottom of the Bake He Loses His Life. Ashtabula, 0., Dec. 12. Thomas Gray, a diver, died while working on the wreck of the Pelican, off this port. Gray descended at 2 p. m., and an hour later sent up distress signals. The attendants could not raise him and telegraphed to Cleveland for a diver. The distress signals continued until 6 p. m. when they ceased. At 9p. m. Diver Edwin Welsh went down and found that Gray had fallen through a hatch and become entangled in some wires When brought to the surface he was dead.