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Surnames: Moody, Pancake, Smith, Mayne
Classification: Death
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The Warren Republican, Thursday, June 11, 1896
Charles Moody Drowned
While Bathing in the Salamonie River Friday Evening.
About 7 o'clock last Friday evening Charles Moody, aged 21 yers, lost his life while
bathing in the river near town. The terrible news was soon brought to the people on the
street and a large crowd immediately hurried to the fatal spot. In a short time the body
was recovered and taken to Brown's undertaking rooms where it was prepared for burial
and afterwards removed to the residence of H.M. Pancake where the young man boarded.
The particulars of the very unfortunate affair are few and were easily obtained. On the
evening stated Moody, accompanied by George Powell, Charley Taylor, Fred Coles, Dod Wilson
and Dan Buzzard, went to the river, just above the island, and went in bathing. Moody
told the boys he couldn't swim and they warned him of a deep hole near where they
were. All were wading and swimming around when suddenly young Moody went down and was
unable to swim out. He held his hands above the water, but the boys who could render him
assistance were too far away to reach him in time or were afraid to go to him alone, and
in a few minutes he sank out of sight. It was about an hour before the body was taken
from the water, and of course life was extinct.
The parents of the young man reside in Grant county between four and five miles northeast
of Converse. A telegram was sent to them immediately, and early the next morning Mr.
Moody, accompanied by two of his neighbors, N.M. Smith, and Wm. Mayne, arrived at Warren.
They took charge of the body, and about noon started home, Brown's hearse conveying
it.
Moody came to Warren about two months ago and boarded with H.M. Pancake whose wife was his
aunt. He worked in town at jobs wherever he could get them, and had the reputation of
being a well-behaved, industrious young man.
When Mr. Moody received the telegram informing him that his son was drowned, he and the
rest of the family, consisting of his wife and three daughters, had just returned from the
commencement exercises of the township graded schools from which one of the daughters
graduated. The news was a terrible shock to them and their grief was uncontrollable.