Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1877 — Particulars of Jesse Goff’s Death. [ARTICLE]

Particulars of Jesse Goff’s Death.

Readers of The Ukiom remember that, several weeks since, a telegraphic dispatch to a San Francisco paper from San Diego, Cal., briefly stating the accident which resulted In the death of Jesse Goff at the latter’city, was copied into these oqluuius. Mr. Thomas Boroughs, an uncle of the unfortunate man, recently placed in onr hands a letter written by the gentleman with whom Goff had been living about four mouths and withih two or three days of the fatal occurrence, giving more minute details of the accident. He says that Jesse was walking along the wharf, which extends some two hundred feet out in the bay, down to the steamer to engage passage to San Francisco on his return east, the boat being advertised to leave that afternoon, when his hat was blown off from his head into the water. The weather was warm and he had left his coat, boots and luggage at his room in his boarding house, and was in shirt-sleeves and slippers. As be attempted to catch his hat a slipper heel was caught in a crack between a couple of the wharf planks, and he was precipitated over into the sea, the water at that point being twenty five feet or more below the top of the wharf. A boat * was instantly lowered from the deck of a vessel that had witnessed the disaster, and sent to the rescue. He was taken out of the waves as soon as they could reach him, which was only a few seconds after he fell in, and every effort made to resuscitate him; but all without avail. He was probably killed by striki g against the water. The statement of a San Diego paper is substantially the same, being as follows:

Yesterday morning about eight o’clock a man named Golf fell into the bay from the Pacific Coast Company’s wharf, and although prompt assistance was rendered by the officers and sailors of the Ancon, lying at the dock, he was dead before they could get him on the wharf. Every effort was used to restore the unfortunate man, but to u<> avail. The deceased was walking down to the steamer and his hat blew off, and in attempting to catch it he stumbled and fell Into the bay. He was about twenty-four years of age. The coroner held an inquest on the body, and the verdict of the jury wus in accordance with the above.