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The Drowning of Adam Heisel

The Drowning of Adam Heisel
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The Drowning of Adam Heisel

Adam Heisel, a young man of seventeen, learning the shoe trade with Mr. Steindam, on Market street, was drowned last Saturday night while bathing in the Ohio river at the steamboat landing. His whereabouts were unknown until his clothes were found on the wharf Sunday morning, which led his friends to drag the river with a seine, when the body was recovered. The body was contracted in such a manner as to leave no doubt but that he had been seized with cramp and sunk to the bottom unobserved by his companions who supposed he had gone out of the water. Young Heisel was for a long time employed in Reinert’s bakery, on Chillicothe street, and was a favorite among his young friends. His parents are dead. The took place from the residence of his relative, John Doerr, last Monday.”1

  1. Another drowning case. (1878, July 27). Portsmouth Times, p. 3.
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