Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1908 — Boy Drowned at Remington. [ARTICLE]

Boy Drowned at Remington.

Merle Lewis, 13 years old, son of “Bnfier” Lewis, a barber in Remington, was drowned Sunday afternoon at about 2 o’clock. With other boys he was skating on the partially ice-covered pond at Fountain Park. It is st id that he fell on the Ice and alighted on his stomach and that the momentum was so great that he was carried off the ice into the pond, where the water was about 10 feet deep. He did not come out of the water, having passed under the ice. It was about 45 minutes before the body was recovered and doctors worked over it for more than an hour, and it is said had the circulation started at one stage, but the heart refused to act. The funeral will take place Tuesday morning;