Cheyenne Daily Sun
Cheyenne, WY Territory
5 Dec 1886
page 3
It took members of the Pioneer Fire Hose Company an hour and a half to fish out the body of Frank Griffin, 15 years, from 15 feet of water at Lake Minnehahah. In the company of friends, he had skated too far to the center on ice that had formed only the night before.
He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Griffin.
postscript:
The funeral was held on Dec 9th with a high mass and burial in the Catholic cemetery. There was a funeral cortege of at least 100 carriages with pall bearers who were Frank's peers in high school.
A boy sent to toll the fire bell during the time of the funeral instead "set up a vigourous alarm of fire, which threw the firemen into a state of great excitement while trying to locate a blaze that never existed."
--submitted by Clint Black, Nov 2011
Cheyenne, WY Territory
5 Dec 1886
page 3
It took members of the Pioneer Fire Hose Company an hour and a half to fish out the body of Frank Griffin, 15 years, from 15 feet of water at Lake Minnehahah. In the company of friends, he had skated too far to the center on ice that had formed only the night before.
He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Griffin.
postscript:
The funeral was held on Dec 9th with a high mass and burial in the Catholic cemetery. There was a funeral cortege of at least 100 carriages with pall bearers who were Frank's peers in high school.
A boy sent to toll the fire bell during the time of the funeral instead "set up a vigourous alarm of fire, which threw the firemen into a state of great excitement while trying to locate a blaze that never existed."
--submitted by Clint Black, Nov 2011
Cheyenne Daily Sun
Cheyenne, WY Territory
5 Dec 1886
page 3
It took members of the Pioneer Fire Hose Company an hour and a half to fish out the body of Frank Griffin, 15 years, from 15 feet of water at Lake Minnehahah. In the company of friends, he had skated too far to the center on ice that had formed only the night before.
He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Griffin.
postscript:
The funeral was held on Dec 9th with a high mass and burial in the Catholic cemetery. There was a funeral cortege of at least 100 carriages with pall bearers who were Frank's peers in high school.
A boy sent to toll the fire bell during the time of the funeral instead "set up a vigourous alarm of fire, which threw the firemen into a state of great excitement while trying to locate a blaze that never existed."
--submitted by Clint Black, Nov 2011
Cheyenne, WY Territory
5 Dec 1886
page 3
It took members of the Pioneer Fire Hose Company an hour and a half to fish out the body of Frank Griffin, 15 years, from 15 feet of water at Lake Minnehahah. In the company of friends, he had skated too far to the center on ice that had formed only the night before.
He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Griffin.
postscript:
The funeral was held on Dec 9th with a high mass and burial in the Catholic cemetery. There was a funeral cortege of at least 100 carriages with pall bearers who were Frank's peers in high school.
A boy sent to toll the fire bell during the time of the funeral instead "set up a vigourous alarm of fire, which threw the firemen into a state of great excitement while trying to locate a blaze that never existed."
--submitted by Clint Black, Nov 2011
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