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From: angel gebhart <>
Subject: Body of Frank E. Clark found after dragging Bean Blossom Creek
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 18:50:33 -0800 (PST)

Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Weekly Courier, October 3, 1911, p. 1

Body of Clark Was Found in Creek Sunday
Snag of a Tree Pinned Body of Salem Traveling Man Under the Water

After dragging Bean Blossom Creek for two days and a half the body of Frank E. Clark of Salem, traveling representative for McGowan Lumber Company of the place, was taken from the stream at 10:30 Sunday morning.

The body had been in the water seventy-two hours and was found 200 years south of Martin’s Ford, where Clark was drowned Thursday morning in attempting to drive across the swollen stream.

While forty or more men, including a number from Salem, were making preparations to dynamite the stream in an effort to bring the body to the surface farmers waded up stream holding a rope which was stretched from side to side.

After they had covered about 900 feet George French walked against the body. Reaching down he lifted up together with the limb of a tree which held the body pinned down.

The searchers were headed by H.L. Meanuagh, manager of the lumber company, and a party of eight men including Postmaster Samuel Morris, came up from Salem to assist.

The young man’s father, Fred D. Clark, came, Mrs. Clark has been prostrated since learning that her son was drowned.

Clark was 20 years old, and received his appointment after G.L. Louden of Salem, the former representative of the company, was injured in an Indianapolis Southern wreck three months ago. The young man hired a livery rig in this city Thursday and after checking in lumber and ties at Dolan started farther north, and perished in attempting to cross the ford.




Angel Gebhart
INMONROE Volunteer

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