Connellsville, Pennsylvania Drowning
January 20, 1909
RUNAWAY BOY DIES IN THE YOUGH.
En Route to Connellsville He Tries to Get
Drink and Companions Are Unable to Save Him.
MCKEESPORT, Jan. 21.—Attempting to quench
his thirst by drinking water through a hole in
the ice on the Youghiogheny river cost the life
of Charles Edwards,
12 years old of McKeesport, yesterday and almost
resulted in the drowning of
Dennis McCarthy
and Patrick
Flaherty, his companions.
Edwards lay down on the ice near the
Boston bridge to get a drink. The ice gave way
under his weight and when he tried to crawl out
it continued to break.
McCarthy in
reaching for Edwards'
hand slipped and his body struck Edwards and
pushed him farther into the water. McCarthy
managed to hold on the ragged edge until
Flaherty
procured a stick and pulled him out. Edwards
soon sank. The body has not been recovered.
Edwards was
a son of James Edwards
of 1510 Versailles avenue.
McCarthy is
a son of Policeman
Jerry McCarthy. The boys remained
away from school and were on their way to
Connellsville to visit relatives when a train on
which they had been riding stopped.
The Weekly Courier, Connellsville, PA 28
Jan 1909
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