Obituary from 'The Star', Reynoldsville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania; Wednesday, May 15, 1895; Page 5:
A Sad Accident
On last Tuesday morning B. J. Wells, son of W. W. Wells, of West Reynoldsville, was drowned while at work driving logs on the Eau Claire River, in Wisconsin. The young man was 22 years of age the 8th of last October.
He was born in Clarion county and came to Reynoldsville with his parents about three years ago, and had made his home with them until about last October.
Since leaving home he has been in Wisconsin for sometime, and was engaged by the Northwestern Lumber Co. to drive log just a few days before the sad accident happened. His experience at log driving was limited, and besides this he was not able to swim. When the accident occurred he was on a log in the river and in some manner slipped and fell in, and was never seen alive again. Although every effort was made to save him, his body did not come to the surface until life was extinct. When found he was at the bottom of the river and his hands were clutched to the grass and weeds.
A friend of his, who was working with him and saw the accident, had the body cared for and sent word of the accident to his parents at this place, who immediately sent a telegram to have the remains sent here. It was expected that the body would get here on Friday and services could be held that day, but for some reason his remains did not arrive until Saturday morning, reaching here on a special train from Falls Creek, on the R. & F. C. R’y, and about 11.00 o’clock. He was taken to the undertaker’s rooms on arriving here, and at one o’clock the relatives and friends drove to the cemetery of the Old Mahoning Baptist church, near Smicksburg, Indiana county, where the mortal body was laid in its last resting place.
The deceased was an industrious and honest young man, of strictly temperate habits. He was a member o f the Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor of the Baptist church at this place, and the beautiful floral offering made by that society would show with what respect he was held by them. Below we publish an account of his death as published in the Eau Claire (Wis.) Morning Telegram:
“Judd Wells, a young man of twenty-two years, working on the drive for the Northwestern Lumber company, fell off a log in the south fork of the Eau Claire river yesterday morning and was drowned. The young fellow who came to this section of the country last fall for the first time from Pennsylvania, was very popular among the men. He was quiet and unassuming and a total abstainer. He knew nothing of riding logs, and when he fell off, the log got away from him. Nor could the young man swim. A companion of the deceased, Richard Mellville, jumped into the rushing waters and made a desperate attempt to save Wells, but it seems that the unfortunate fellow got tangled up in the grass at the bottom of the river. His body was recovered and sent here for burial. A telegram received here from his father, however, directed that the body be sent there last night by the undertakers.”
A Sad Accident
On last Tuesday morning B. J. Wells, son of W. W. Wells, of West Reynoldsville, was drowned while at work driving logs on the Eau Claire River, in Wisconsin. The young man was 22 years of age the 8th of last October.
He was born in Clarion county and came to Reynoldsville with his parents about three years ago, and had made his home with them until about last October.
Since leaving home he has been in Wisconsin for sometime, and was engaged by the Northwestern Lumber Co. to drive log just a few days before the sad accident happened. His experience at log driving was limited, and besides this he was not able to swim. When the accident occurred he was on a log in the river and in some manner slipped and fell in, and was never seen alive again. Although every effort was made to save him, his body did not come to the surface until life was extinct. When found he was at the bottom of the river and his hands were clutched to the grass and weeds.
A friend of his, who was working with him and saw the accident, had the body cared for and sent word of the accident to his parents at this place, who immediately sent a telegram to have the remains sent here. It was expected that the body would get here on Friday and services could be held that day, but for some reason his remains did not arrive until Saturday morning, reaching here on a special train from Falls Creek, on the R. & F. C. R’y, and about 11.00 o’clock. He was taken to the undertaker’s rooms on arriving here, and at one o’clock the relatives and friends drove to the cemetery of the Old Mahoning Baptist church, near Smicksburg, Indiana county, where the mortal body was laid in its last resting place.
The deceased was an industrious and honest young man, of strictly temperate habits. He was a member o f the Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor of the Baptist church at this place, and the beautiful floral offering made by that society would show with what respect he was held by them. Below we publish an account of his death as published in the Eau Claire (Wis.) Morning Telegram:
“Judd Wells, a young man of twenty-two years, working on the drive for the Northwestern Lumber company, fell off a log in the south fork of the Eau Claire river yesterday morning and was drowned. The young fellow who came to this section of the country last fall for the first time from Pennsylvania, was very popular among the men. He was quiet and unassuming and a total abstainer. He knew nothing of riding logs, and when he fell off, the log got away from him. Nor could the young man swim. A companion of the deceased, Richard Mellville, jumped into the rushing waters and made a desperate attempt to save Wells, but it seems that the unfortunate fellow got tangled up in the grass at the bottom of the river. His body was recovered and sent here for burial. A telegram received here from his father, however, directed that the body be sent there last night by the undertakers.”
Obituary from 'The Star', Reynoldsville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania; Wednesday, May 15, 1895; Page 5:
A Sad Accident
On last Tuesday morning B. J. Wells, son of W. W. Wells, of West Reynoldsville, was drowned while at work driving logs on the Eau Claire River, in Wisconsin. The young man was 22 years of age the 8th of last October.
He was born in Clarion county and came to Reynoldsville with his parents about three years ago, and had made his home with them until about last October.
Since leaving home he has been in Wisconsin for sometime, and was engaged by the Northwestern Lumber Co. to drive log just a few days before the sad accident happened. His experience at log driving was limited, and besides this he was not able to swim. When the accident occurred he was on a log in the river and in some manner slipped and fell in, and was never seen alive again. Although every effort was made to save him, his body did not come to the surface until life was extinct. When found he was at the bottom of the river and his hands were clutched to the grass and weeds.
A friend of his, who was working with him and saw the accident, had the body cared for and sent word of the accident to his parents at this place, who immediately sent a telegram to have the remains sent here. It was expected that the body would get here on Friday and services could be held that day, but for some reason his remains did not arrive until Saturday morning, reaching here on a special train from Falls Creek, on the R. & F. C. R’y, and about 11.00 o’clock. He was taken to the undertaker’s rooms on arriving here, and at one o’clock the relatives and friends drove to the cemetery of the Old Mahoning Baptist church, near Smicksburg, Indiana county, where the mortal body was laid in its last resting place.
The deceased was an industrious and honest young man, of strictly temperate habits. He was a member o f the Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor of the Baptist church at this place, and the beautiful floral offering made by that society would show with what respect he was held by them. Below we publish an account of his death as published in the Eau Claire (Wis.) Morning Telegram:
“Judd Wells, a young man of twenty-two years, working on the drive for the Northwestern Lumber company, fell off a log in the south fork of the Eau Claire river yesterday morning and was drowned. The young fellow who came to this section of the country last fall for the first time from Pennsylvania, was very popular among the men. He was quiet and unassuming and a total abstainer. He knew nothing of riding logs, and when he fell off, the log got away from him. Nor could the young man swim. A companion of the deceased, Richard Mellville, jumped into the rushing waters and made a desperate attempt to save Wells, but it seems that the unfortunate fellow got tangled up in the grass at the bottom of the river. His body was recovered and sent here for burial. A telegram received here from his father, however, directed that the body be sent there last night by the undertakers.”
A Sad Accident
On last Tuesday morning B. J. Wells, son of W. W. Wells, of West Reynoldsville, was drowned while at work driving logs on the Eau Claire River, in Wisconsin. The young man was 22 years of age the 8th of last October.
He was born in Clarion county and came to Reynoldsville with his parents about three years ago, and had made his home with them until about last October.
Since leaving home he has been in Wisconsin for sometime, and was engaged by the Northwestern Lumber Co. to drive log just a few days before the sad accident happened. His experience at log driving was limited, and besides this he was not able to swim. When the accident occurred he was on a log in the river and in some manner slipped and fell in, and was never seen alive again. Although every effort was made to save him, his body did not come to the surface until life was extinct. When found he was at the bottom of the river and his hands were clutched to the grass and weeds.
A friend of his, who was working with him and saw the accident, had the body cared for and sent word of the accident to his parents at this place, who immediately sent a telegram to have the remains sent here. It was expected that the body would get here on Friday and services could be held that day, but for some reason his remains did not arrive until Saturday morning, reaching here on a special train from Falls Creek, on the R. & F. C. R’y, and about 11.00 o’clock. He was taken to the undertaker’s rooms on arriving here, and at one o’clock the relatives and friends drove to the cemetery of the Old Mahoning Baptist church, near Smicksburg, Indiana county, where the mortal body was laid in its last resting place.
The deceased was an industrious and honest young man, of strictly temperate habits. He was a member o f the Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor of the Baptist church at this place, and the beautiful floral offering made by that society would show with what respect he was held by them. Below we publish an account of his death as published in the Eau Claire (Wis.) Morning Telegram:
“Judd Wells, a young man of twenty-two years, working on the drive for the Northwestern Lumber company, fell off a log in the south fork of the Eau Claire river yesterday morning and was drowned. The young fellow who came to this section of the country last fall for the first time from Pennsylvania, was very popular among the men. He was quiet and unassuming and a total abstainer. He knew nothing of riding logs, and when he fell off, the log got away from him. Nor could the young man swim. A companion of the deceased, Richard Mellville, jumped into the rushing waters and made a desperate attempt to save Wells, but it seems that the unfortunate fellow got tangled up in the grass at the bottom of the river. His body was recovered and sent here for burial. A telegram received here from his father, however, directed that the body be sent there last night by the undertakers.”
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