Drowned on the 4th of July. William and parents all buried in same unmarked grave.
Galveston Daily News (TX) 5 Jul 1882 p4
A Boy Drowned.
A few minutes before the excursion train that left the city at 2:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon reached the picnic grounds a little boy named Willie Bang, whose parents live at the corner of Twenty-eighth street and Avenue H, was drowned. He had been in bathing for a long time, no one save another boy, about his own age, being in with him. When the train arrived the matter was spoken of, but no effort was made to find the boy, and from this indifference the new comers did not interest themselves in the matter. Some conversation was had by a News reporter with the boy who was in the water with the drowned boy, and he was asked why he did not tell somebody that the other boy was drowned. He said he did not think anything about it, supposing that Willie Bang had dived under the water and went to the shore and was hiding amongst the bushes. A lady who had been looking at the boys bathing, gave information about the boy disappearing, and several persons went in search of the body, but failed to find it. Jack Crotty got some bathing clothes and went in search also. At this time there were some eight persons searching for the body. Crotty searched in the deep water while others searched in the shallow water. In a little time one of the searchers, Thomas Pennert, a boy about fifteen years old, sung out "Here he is!" Mr. Exline, who was searching near by, answered, "Don't move!" As soon as Mr. Exline reached the place he dived down, and in a few seconds after brought up the dead body of Willie Bang. The boy had been in the water over an hour and a half, yet there was not a drop of water in the body, and it was as limp as a rag. From this Captain Wm. Boyd thought the little fellow might be resuscitated and had hot water brought out. With this he rubbed the body for some time, but with no good effect. The lad was then put in the clothes he had left on the shore, and stretched out upon the grass, to await the coming of his parents, who had been sent for. Where the boy was drowned the water was not over his head when he stood upright. What caused his drowning is a mystery, unless it may be in the fact that he had been so long in the water that he took cramps, and sank without saying a word.
Galveston Daily News (TX) 5 Jul 1882 p4
A Boy Drowned.
A few minutes before the excursion train that left the city at 2:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon reached the picnic grounds a little boy named Willie Bang, whose parents live at the corner of Twenty-eighth street and Avenue H, was drowned. He had been in bathing for a long time, no one save another boy, about his own age, being in with him. When the train arrived the matter was spoken of, but no effort was made to find the boy, and from this indifference the new comers did not interest themselves in the matter. Some conversation was had by a News reporter with the boy who was in the water with the drowned boy, and he was asked why he did not tell somebody that the other boy was drowned. He said he did not think anything about it, supposing that Willie Bang had dived under the water and went to the shore and was hiding amongst the bushes. A lady who had been looking at the boys bathing, gave information about the boy disappearing, and several persons went in search of the body, but failed to find it. Jack Crotty got some bathing clothes and went in search also. At this time there were some eight persons searching for the body. Crotty searched in the deep water while others searched in the shallow water. In a little time one of the searchers, Thomas Pennert, a boy about fifteen years old, sung out "Here he is!" Mr. Exline, who was searching near by, answered, "Don't move!" As soon as Mr. Exline reached the place he dived down, and in a few seconds after brought up the dead body of Willie Bang. The boy had been in the water over an hour and a half, yet there was not a drop of water in the body, and it was as limp as a rag. From this Captain Wm. Boyd thought the little fellow might be resuscitated and had hot water brought out. With this he rubbed the body for some time, but with no good effect. The lad was then put in the clothes he had left on the shore, and stretched out upon the grass, to await the coming of his parents, who had been sent for. Where the boy was drowned the water was not over his head when he stood upright. What caused his drowning is a mystery, unless it may be in the fact that he had been so long in the water that he took cramps, and sank without saying a word.
Drowned on the 4th of July. William and parents all buried in same unmarked grave.
Galveston Daily News (TX) 5 Jul 1882 p4
A Boy Drowned.
A few minutes before the excursion train that left the city at 2:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon reached the picnic grounds a little boy named Willie Bang, whose parents live at the corner of Twenty-eighth street and Avenue H, was drowned. He had been in bathing for a long time, no one save another boy, about his own age, being in with him. When the train arrived the matter was spoken of, but no effort was made to find the boy, and from this indifference the new comers did not interest themselves in the matter. Some conversation was had by a News reporter with the boy who was in the water with the drowned boy, and he was asked why he did not tell somebody that the other boy was drowned. He said he did not think anything about it, supposing that Willie Bang had dived under the water and went to the shore and was hiding amongst the bushes. A lady who had been looking at the boys bathing, gave information about the boy disappearing, and several persons went in search of the body, but failed to find it. Jack Crotty got some bathing clothes and went in search also. At this time there were some eight persons searching for the body. Crotty searched in the deep water while others searched in the shallow water. In a little time one of the searchers, Thomas Pennert, a boy about fifteen years old, sung out "Here he is!" Mr. Exline, who was searching near by, answered, "Don't move!" As soon as Mr. Exline reached the place he dived down, and in a few seconds after brought up the dead body of Willie Bang. The boy had been in the water over an hour and a half, yet there was not a drop of water in the body, and it was as limp as a rag. From this Captain Wm. Boyd thought the little fellow might be resuscitated and had hot water brought out. With this he rubbed the body for some time, but with no good effect. The lad was then put in the clothes he had left on the shore, and stretched out upon the grass, to await the coming of his parents, who had been sent for. Where the boy was drowned the water was not over his head when he stood upright. What caused his drowning is a mystery, unless it may be in the fact that he had been so long in the water that he took cramps, and sank without saying a word.
Galveston Daily News (TX) 5 Jul 1882 p4
A Boy Drowned.
A few minutes before the excursion train that left the city at 2:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon reached the picnic grounds a little boy named Willie Bang, whose parents live at the corner of Twenty-eighth street and Avenue H, was drowned. He had been in bathing for a long time, no one save another boy, about his own age, being in with him. When the train arrived the matter was spoken of, but no effort was made to find the boy, and from this indifference the new comers did not interest themselves in the matter. Some conversation was had by a News reporter with the boy who was in the water with the drowned boy, and he was asked why he did not tell somebody that the other boy was drowned. He said he did not think anything about it, supposing that Willie Bang had dived under the water and went to the shore and was hiding amongst the bushes. A lady who had been looking at the boys bathing, gave information about the boy disappearing, and several persons went in search of the body, but failed to find it. Jack Crotty got some bathing clothes and went in search also. At this time there were some eight persons searching for the body. Crotty searched in the deep water while others searched in the shallow water. In a little time one of the searchers, Thomas Pennert, a boy about fifteen years old, sung out "Here he is!" Mr. Exline, who was searching near by, answered, "Don't move!" As soon as Mr. Exline reached the place he dived down, and in a few seconds after brought up the dead body of Willie Bang. The boy had been in the water over an hour and a half, yet there was not a drop of water in the body, and it was as limp as a rag. From this Captain Wm. Boyd thought the little fellow might be resuscitated and had hot water brought out. With this he rubbed the body for some time, but with no good effect. The lad was then put in the clothes he had left on the shore, and stretched out upon the grass, to await the coming of his parents, who had been sent for. Where the boy was drowned the water was not over his head when he stood upright. What caused his drowning is a mystery, unless it may be in the fact that he had been so long in the water that he took cramps, and sank without saying a word.
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