A WATERY GRAVE
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Hill Logan Drowned In Lake Minnehaha on Friday Night.
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This morning it becomes our painful duty to announce the death of Mr. Hill Logan, an old citizen of Cheyenne, by drowning in Lake Minnehaha. The particulars are these :
Mr. Logan was a member of the stove and tinware establishment of Roberts & Logan, on Ferguson street, and resided about one hundred yards east of the lake in which he met his death. Since residing there it has been his habit frequently when the weather was disagreeable to get his meals in the city and sleep at night in the store. That being the case, his family on such occasions were not uneasy about his absence. It was also his custom to remain occasionally with his family on disagreeable days, and his partner in business therefore thought nothing strange when he remained away from the shop.
It appears that Friday night at or about nine o'clock, the deceased started home, carrying upon his arm a basket of provisions. Several gentlemen conversed with him on Sixteenth street about that hour, and he was then on his way home. This was the last seen of him so far as we are enabled to learn. Yesterday morning, when the members of his family arose, they quite naturally presumed that he had remained the night previous in the shop, as it was by all odds the coldest Cheyenne has experienced this winter. His failure to visit the shop yesterday excited no suspicion in the mind of Mr. Roberts, his partner, who thought he had concluded to remain at home.
His mysterious disappearance was therefore not known to his relatives until about dark last night. His son, Ernest Logan, who is employed at Camp Carlin, came to the city about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and upon going to the shop, was requested by Mr. Roberts to go out and see if his father was sick, or simply remaining at home on account of the weather. Ernest did so, and upon entering his father's house, and upon learning that be had not been at home the previous night, at once said he feared that he had fallen through the ice. The terrified family at once gave the alarm, and several persons were soon engaged in endeavoring to learn the whereabouts of the missing man.
It was well nigh 8 o'clock when the party, consisting of George A. Draper, Isaac Bergman, O. C. Wade, Mr. H. C. Roberts, Ernest Logan and two or three others, started out with lanterns. Upon reaching the lake they observed tracks in the snow which were followed cautiously by them, lest an unobserved air hole should result in a serious mishap to one or more of the party.
Upon reaching the center of the lake they found Mr. Logan's cap and basket both frozen solidly to the ice, and in the vicinity were evidences of the ice having been broken and frozen over again. Being thoroughly convinced that the unfortunate man had broken through and drowned, they retraced their steps to land. This course was taken owing to the darkness and the fact that the ice in the vicinity of the catastrophe is so thin as to render it perilous to continue the search in the manner begun by the party.
At an early hour this morning Coroner Goldacker, with several assistants, will visit the spot, prepared, to recover the remains of the deceased.
Officer Bean was told yesterday afternoon by some freighters, who were encamped Friday in the vicinity of the lake, that about half-past 9 o'clock that night they heard ballooing on the ice, as if some one was in distress.
Mr. Logan's dog, which accompanied him from town, arrived home between half-past 9 and 10 o'clock. It is evident from the investigation last night that the deceased succeeded in rescuing himself several times after breaking through the ice, only to be dually swallowed by the cruel waters.
Hill Logan came to Wyoming from Ohio some ten or eleven years ago, and in the early days of Cheyenne was employed at Camp Carlin. He was between fifty-five and sixty years of age, and leaves a wife and two children; a boy and a girl. Ernest, the son, is a bright, manly youth, employed at Camp Carlin. Frankie Logan, the daughter, is a remarkably intelligent young lady, who will be remembered by many of our citizens as one of the two graduates of the Cheyenne public school last summer; the first and only pupils upon whom such honors have ever been conferred within the limits of the territory.
As we write, the mind cannot refrain from adverting to that desolate home beyond the lake where the anguish of the sorrow stricken relatives utterly defies the power of tongue to describe or the pen to portray.
© Cheyenne Daily Leader no. 76 December 15, 1878, page 4
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HILL LOGAN.
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Recovery of the Body- The Inquest-Consigned to the Tomb.
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At an early hour on Sunday morning a large number of citizens went to Lake Minnehaha for the purpose of recovering the body of Hill Logan, who was drowned there on Friday night. Messrs. Frank Hunter, Geo. L. Holt, Marvin E. Waldraven and others lowered grappling hooks at the broken place in the ice, where it was evident Mr. Logan sank, and in a few minutes the body was recovered.
Coroner Goldacker impanelled a jury and heard the testimony of several persons. The principal witness was Mr. H. C. Roberts, the business partner of the deceased. His testimony was substantially as follows:
Mr. Logan was my partner, and a member of the firm of Roberts & Logan, of Cheyenne; on Friday, December 13th, he started home at about half after 6 o'clock, and not coming to business the following morning as usual, I thought he might be sick; he was accustomed to come not very early to business on some occasions; on Saturday evening his son Ernest came from Camp Carlin, where he is employed by the government; told him his father had not been to the store that day, and said he was probably sick; he said that he would go out and see; he went home and returned in about two hours afterward; he said his father had not been home since Friday; several persons were in the store at this time, and proposed to go and look for him, and we started for the lake ,in the direction of his residence; when we arrived at the lake we found tracks where some person had gone on the ice; we followed the trail and came to a place where the ice was broken, and found a basket and cap, which I recognized as belonging to Mr. Logan; I notified the coroner, and we at first decided to go out at once, but owing to the darkness we concluded to postpone the search for the body until daylight; this was about 9 o'clock on Saturday night; sometimes, in stormy weather, the deceased would stay at home or at the store at night, so I did not feel alarmed at his absence from the store on Saturday morning, as his residence was one and a quarter miles from his place of business.
The jury then rendered the following verdict:
CHEYENNE, Dec. 15, 1878
We, the Jurors summoned to inquire into the cause of the death of Hill Logan, here lying dead, find that the deceased came to his death by accidental drowning in Lake Minnehaha, on the evening of December 13, 1878.
M. E. WALDRAVEN,
S. H. WOOD,
J. S. SCHOOLER,
J. C. BRANDON,
WM. F. KAVANAGH,
H. W. HOLT.
Sworn to before me this 15th day of December, 1878.
GEO. P. GOLDACKER, CORONER.
At 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon the funeral of the deceased took place from Masonic temple on Sixteenth street, under the auspices of Cheyenne Lodge No.1, A. F.& A. M., of which order he was an honored member. The attendance of members of the lodge and other citizens at the temple, as at the cemetery, was quite large. At the temple religious services were conducted by Rev. J. Y. Cowhick, pastor of the Presbyterian, and by Rev. W. H. Gillam, of the Methodist church.
The pall-bearers were S. A. Bristol, A. H. Reel, H. W. Moore, George W. Hawes, H. Conway and Wm. Swan. At the grave the scene was very impressive. Thus has passed away one of our oldest and best citizens. The afflicted family of the deceased have the heartfelt sympathy of all in their sudden bereavement.
© Cheyenne Daily Leader no. 77 December 17, 1878, page 4
Submitted by Lostnwyomn August 2013.
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Hill Logan Drowned In Lake Minnehaha on Friday Night.
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This morning it becomes our painful duty to announce the death of Mr. Hill Logan, an old citizen of Cheyenne, by drowning in Lake Minnehaha. The particulars are these :
Mr. Logan was a member of the stove and tinware establishment of Roberts & Logan, on Ferguson street, and resided about one hundred yards east of the lake in which he met his death. Since residing there it has been his habit frequently when the weather was disagreeable to get his meals in the city and sleep at night in the store. That being the case, his family on such occasions were not uneasy about his absence. It was also his custom to remain occasionally with his family on disagreeable days, and his partner in business therefore thought nothing strange when he remained away from the shop.
It appears that Friday night at or about nine o'clock, the deceased started home, carrying upon his arm a basket of provisions. Several gentlemen conversed with him on Sixteenth street about that hour, and he was then on his way home. This was the last seen of him so far as we are enabled to learn. Yesterday morning, when the members of his family arose, they quite naturally presumed that he had remained the night previous in the shop, as it was by all odds the coldest Cheyenne has experienced this winter. His failure to visit the shop yesterday excited no suspicion in the mind of Mr. Roberts, his partner, who thought he had concluded to remain at home.
His mysterious disappearance was therefore not known to his relatives until about dark last night. His son, Ernest Logan, who is employed at Camp Carlin, came to the city about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and upon going to the shop, was requested by Mr. Roberts to go out and see if his father was sick, or simply remaining at home on account of the weather. Ernest did so, and upon entering his father's house, and upon learning that be had not been at home the previous night, at once said he feared that he had fallen through the ice. The terrified family at once gave the alarm, and several persons were soon engaged in endeavoring to learn the whereabouts of the missing man.
It was well nigh 8 o'clock when the party, consisting of George A. Draper, Isaac Bergman, O. C. Wade, Mr. H. C. Roberts, Ernest Logan and two or three others, started out with lanterns. Upon reaching the lake they observed tracks in the snow which were followed cautiously by them, lest an unobserved air hole should result in a serious mishap to one or more of the party.
Upon reaching the center of the lake they found Mr. Logan's cap and basket both frozen solidly to the ice, and in the vicinity were evidences of the ice having been broken and frozen over again. Being thoroughly convinced that the unfortunate man had broken through and drowned, they retraced their steps to land. This course was taken owing to the darkness and the fact that the ice in the vicinity of the catastrophe is so thin as to render it perilous to continue the search in the manner begun by the party.
At an early hour this morning Coroner Goldacker, with several assistants, will visit the spot, prepared, to recover the remains of the deceased.
Officer Bean was told yesterday afternoon by some freighters, who were encamped Friday in the vicinity of the lake, that about half-past 9 o'clock that night they heard ballooing on the ice, as if some one was in distress.
Mr. Logan's dog, which accompanied him from town, arrived home between half-past 9 and 10 o'clock. It is evident from the investigation last night that the deceased succeeded in rescuing himself several times after breaking through the ice, only to be dually swallowed by the cruel waters.
Hill Logan came to Wyoming from Ohio some ten or eleven years ago, and in the early days of Cheyenne was employed at Camp Carlin. He was between fifty-five and sixty years of age, and leaves a wife and two children; a boy and a girl. Ernest, the son, is a bright, manly youth, employed at Camp Carlin. Frankie Logan, the daughter, is a remarkably intelligent young lady, who will be remembered by many of our citizens as one of the two graduates of the Cheyenne public school last summer; the first and only pupils upon whom such honors have ever been conferred within the limits of the territory.
As we write, the mind cannot refrain from adverting to that desolate home beyond the lake where the anguish of the sorrow stricken relatives utterly defies the power of tongue to describe or the pen to portray.
© Cheyenne Daily Leader no. 76 December 15, 1878, page 4
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HILL LOGAN.
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Recovery of the Body- The Inquest-Consigned to the Tomb.
_________________
At an early hour on Sunday morning a large number of citizens went to Lake Minnehaha for the purpose of recovering the body of Hill Logan, who was drowned there on Friday night. Messrs. Frank Hunter, Geo. L. Holt, Marvin E. Waldraven and others lowered grappling hooks at the broken place in the ice, where it was evident Mr. Logan sank, and in a few minutes the body was recovered.
Coroner Goldacker impanelled a jury and heard the testimony of several persons. The principal witness was Mr. H. C. Roberts, the business partner of the deceased. His testimony was substantially as follows:
Mr. Logan was my partner, and a member of the firm of Roberts & Logan, of Cheyenne; on Friday, December 13th, he started home at about half after 6 o'clock, and not coming to business the following morning as usual, I thought he might be sick; he was accustomed to come not very early to business on some occasions; on Saturday evening his son Ernest came from Camp Carlin, where he is employed by the government; told him his father had not been to the store that day, and said he was probably sick; he said that he would go out and see; he went home and returned in about two hours afterward; he said his father had not been home since Friday; several persons were in the store at this time, and proposed to go and look for him, and we started for the lake ,in the direction of his residence; when we arrived at the lake we found tracks where some person had gone on the ice; we followed the trail and came to a place where the ice was broken, and found a basket and cap, which I recognized as belonging to Mr. Logan; I notified the coroner, and we at first decided to go out at once, but owing to the darkness we concluded to postpone the search for the body until daylight; this was about 9 o'clock on Saturday night; sometimes, in stormy weather, the deceased would stay at home or at the store at night, so I did not feel alarmed at his absence from the store on Saturday morning, as his residence was one and a quarter miles from his place of business.
The jury then rendered the following verdict:
CHEYENNE, Dec. 15, 1878
We, the Jurors summoned to inquire into the cause of the death of Hill Logan, here lying dead, find that the deceased came to his death by accidental drowning in Lake Minnehaha, on the evening of December 13, 1878.
M. E. WALDRAVEN,
S. H. WOOD,
J. S. SCHOOLER,
J. C. BRANDON,
WM. F. KAVANAGH,
H. W. HOLT.
Sworn to before me this 15th day of December, 1878.
GEO. P. GOLDACKER, CORONER.
At 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon the funeral of the deceased took place from Masonic temple on Sixteenth street, under the auspices of Cheyenne Lodge No.1, A. F.& A. M., of which order he was an honored member. The attendance of members of the lodge and other citizens at the temple, as at the cemetery, was quite large. At the temple religious services were conducted by Rev. J. Y. Cowhick, pastor of the Presbyterian, and by Rev. W. H. Gillam, of the Methodist church.
The pall-bearers were S. A. Bristol, A. H. Reel, H. W. Moore, George W. Hawes, H. Conway and Wm. Swan. At the grave the scene was very impressive. Thus has passed away one of our oldest and best citizens. The afflicted family of the deceased have the heartfelt sympathy of all in their sudden bereavement.
© Cheyenne Daily Leader no. 77 December 17, 1878, page 4
Submitted by Lostnwyomn August 2013.
A WATERY GRAVE
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Hill Logan Drowned In Lake Minnehaha on Friday Night.
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This morning it becomes our painful duty to announce the death of Mr. Hill Logan, an old citizen of Cheyenne, by drowning in Lake Minnehaha. The particulars are these :
Mr. Logan was a member of the stove and tinware establishment of Roberts & Logan, on Ferguson street, and resided about one hundred yards east of the lake in which he met his death. Since residing there it has been his habit frequently when the weather was disagreeable to get his meals in the city and sleep at night in the store. That being the case, his family on such occasions were not uneasy about his absence. It was also his custom to remain occasionally with his family on disagreeable days, and his partner in business therefore thought nothing strange when he remained away from the shop.
It appears that Friday night at or about nine o'clock, the deceased started home, carrying upon his arm a basket of provisions. Several gentlemen conversed with him on Sixteenth street about that hour, and he was then on his way home. This was the last seen of him so far as we are enabled to learn. Yesterday morning, when the members of his family arose, they quite naturally presumed that he had remained the night previous in the shop, as it was by all odds the coldest Cheyenne has experienced this winter. His failure to visit the shop yesterday excited no suspicion in the mind of Mr. Roberts, his partner, who thought he had concluded to remain at home.
His mysterious disappearance was therefore not known to his relatives until about dark last night. His son, Ernest Logan, who is employed at Camp Carlin, came to the city about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and upon going to the shop, was requested by Mr. Roberts to go out and see if his father was sick, or simply remaining at home on account of the weather. Ernest did so, and upon entering his father's house, and upon learning that be had not been at home the previous night, at once said he feared that he had fallen through the ice. The terrified family at once gave the alarm, and several persons were soon engaged in endeavoring to learn the whereabouts of the missing man.
It was well nigh 8 o'clock when the party, consisting of George A. Draper, Isaac Bergman, O. C. Wade, Mr. H. C. Roberts, Ernest Logan and two or three others, started out with lanterns. Upon reaching the lake they observed tracks in the snow which were followed cautiously by them, lest an unobserved air hole should result in a serious mishap to one or more of the party.
Upon reaching the center of the lake they found Mr. Logan's cap and basket both frozen solidly to the ice, and in the vicinity were evidences of the ice having been broken and frozen over again. Being thoroughly convinced that the unfortunate man had broken through and drowned, they retraced their steps to land. This course was taken owing to the darkness and the fact that the ice in the vicinity of the catastrophe is so thin as to render it perilous to continue the search in the manner begun by the party.
At an early hour this morning Coroner Goldacker, with several assistants, will visit the spot, prepared, to recover the remains of the deceased.
Officer Bean was told yesterday afternoon by some freighters, who were encamped Friday in the vicinity of the lake, that about half-past 9 o'clock that night they heard ballooing on the ice, as if some one was in distress.
Mr. Logan's dog, which accompanied him from town, arrived home between half-past 9 and 10 o'clock. It is evident from the investigation last night that the deceased succeeded in rescuing himself several times after breaking through the ice, only to be dually swallowed by the cruel waters.
Hill Logan came to Wyoming from Ohio some ten or eleven years ago, and in the early days of Cheyenne was employed at Camp Carlin. He was between fifty-five and sixty years of age, and leaves a wife and two children; a boy and a girl. Ernest, the son, is a bright, manly youth, employed at Camp Carlin. Frankie Logan, the daughter, is a remarkably intelligent young lady, who will be remembered by many of our citizens as one of the two graduates of the Cheyenne public school last summer; the first and only pupils upon whom such honors have ever been conferred within the limits of the territory.
As we write, the mind cannot refrain from adverting to that desolate home beyond the lake where the anguish of the sorrow stricken relatives utterly defies the power of tongue to describe or the pen to portray.
© Cheyenne Daily Leader no. 76 December 15, 1878, page 4
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HILL LOGAN.
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Recovery of the Body- The Inquest-Consigned to the Tomb.
_________________
At an early hour on Sunday morning a large number of citizens went to Lake Minnehaha for the purpose of recovering the body of Hill Logan, who was drowned there on Friday night. Messrs. Frank Hunter, Geo. L. Holt, Marvin E. Waldraven and others lowered grappling hooks at the broken place in the ice, where it was evident Mr. Logan sank, and in a few minutes the body was recovered.
Coroner Goldacker impanelled a jury and heard the testimony of several persons. The principal witness was Mr. H. C. Roberts, the business partner of the deceased. His testimony was substantially as follows:
Mr. Logan was my partner, and a member of the firm of Roberts & Logan, of Cheyenne; on Friday, December 13th, he started home at about half after 6 o'clock, and not coming to business the following morning as usual, I thought he might be sick; he was accustomed to come not very early to business on some occasions; on Saturday evening his son Ernest came from Camp Carlin, where he is employed by the government; told him his father had not been to the store that day, and said he was probably sick; he said that he would go out and see; he went home and returned in about two hours afterward; he said his father had not been home since Friday; several persons were in the store at this time, and proposed to go and look for him, and we started for the lake ,in the direction of his residence; when we arrived at the lake we found tracks where some person had gone on the ice; we followed the trail and came to a place where the ice was broken, and found a basket and cap, which I recognized as belonging to Mr. Logan; I notified the coroner, and we at first decided to go out at once, but owing to the darkness we concluded to postpone the search for the body until daylight; this was about 9 o'clock on Saturday night; sometimes, in stormy weather, the deceased would stay at home or at the store at night, so I did not feel alarmed at his absence from the store on Saturday morning, as his residence was one and a quarter miles from his place of business.
The jury then rendered the following verdict:
CHEYENNE, Dec. 15, 1878
We, the Jurors summoned to inquire into the cause of the death of Hill Logan, here lying dead, find that the deceased came to his death by accidental drowning in Lake Minnehaha, on the evening of December 13, 1878.
M. E. WALDRAVEN,
S. H. WOOD,
J. S. SCHOOLER,
J. C. BRANDON,
WM. F. KAVANAGH,
H. W. HOLT.
Sworn to before me this 15th day of December, 1878.
GEO. P. GOLDACKER, CORONER.
At 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon the funeral of the deceased took place from Masonic temple on Sixteenth street, under the auspices of Cheyenne Lodge No.1, A. F.& A. M., of which order he was an honored member. The attendance of members of the lodge and other citizens at the temple, as at the cemetery, was quite large. At the temple religious services were conducted by Rev. J. Y. Cowhick, pastor of the Presbyterian, and by Rev. W. H. Gillam, of the Methodist church.
The pall-bearers were S. A. Bristol, A. H. Reel, H. W. Moore, George W. Hawes, H. Conway and Wm. Swan. At the grave the scene was very impressive. Thus has passed away one of our oldest and best citizens. The afflicted family of the deceased have the heartfelt sympathy of all in their sudden bereavement.
© Cheyenne Daily Leader no. 77 December 17, 1878, page 4
Submitted by Lostnwyomn August 2013.
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Hill Logan Drowned In Lake Minnehaha on Friday Night.
_________________
This morning it becomes our painful duty to announce the death of Mr. Hill Logan, an old citizen of Cheyenne, by drowning in Lake Minnehaha. The particulars are these :
Mr. Logan was a member of the stove and tinware establishment of Roberts & Logan, on Ferguson street, and resided about one hundred yards east of the lake in which he met his death. Since residing there it has been his habit frequently when the weather was disagreeable to get his meals in the city and sleep at night in the store. That being the case, his family on such occasions were not uneasy about his absence. It was also his custom to remain occasionally with his family on disagreeable days, and his partner in business therefore thought nothing strange when he remained away from the shop.
It appears that Friday night at or about nine o'clock, the deceased started home, carrying upon his arm a basket of provisions. Several gentlemen conversed with him on Sixteenth street about that hour, and he was then on his way home. This was the last seen of him so far as we are enabled to learn. Yesterday morning, when the members of his family arose, they quite naturally presumed that he had remained the night previous in the shop, as it was by all odds the coldest Cheyenne has experienced this winter. His failure to visit the shop yesterday excited no suspicion in the mind of Mr. Roberts, his partner, who thought he had concluded to remain at home.
His mysterious disappearance was therefore not known to his relatives until about dark last night. His son, Ernest Logan, who is employed at Camp Carlin, came to the city about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and upon going to the shop, was requested by Mr. Roberts to go out and see if his father was sick, or simply remaining at home on account of the weather. Ernest did so, and upon entering his father's house, and upon learning that be had not been at home the previous night, at once said he feared that he had fallen through the ice. The terrified family at once gave the alarm, and several persons were soon engaged in endeavoring to learn the whereabouts of the missing man.
It was well nigh 8 o'clock when the party, consisting of George A. Draper, Isaac Bergman, O. C. Wade, Mr. H. C. Roberts, Ernest Logan and two or three others, started out with lanterns. Upon reaching the lake they observed tracks in the snow which were followed cautiously by them, lest an unobserved air hole should result in a serious mishap to one or more of the party.
Upon reaching the center of the lake they found Mr. Logan's cap and basket both frozen solidly to the ice, and in the vicinity were evidences of the ice having been broken and frozen over again. Being thoroughly convinced that the unfortunate man had broken through and drowned, they retraced their steps to land. This course was taken owing to the darkness and the fact that the ice in the vicinity of the catastrophe is so thin as to render it perilous to continue the search in the manner begun by the party.
At an early hour this morning Coroner Goldacker, with several assistants, will visit the spot, prepared, to recover the remains of the deceased.
Officer Bean was told yesterday afternoon by some freighters, who were encamped Friday in the vicinity of the lake, that about half-past 9 o'clock that night they heard ballooing on the ice, as if some one was in distress.
Mr. Logan's dog, which accompanied him from town, arrived home between half-past 9 and 10 o'clock. It is evident from the investigation last night that the deceased succeeded in rescuing himself several times after breaking through the ice, only to be dually swallowed by the cruel waters.
Hill Logan came to Wyoming from Ohio some ten or eleven years ago, and in the early days of Cheyenne was employed at Camp Carlin. He was between fifty-five and sixty years of age, and leaves a wife and two children; a boy and a girl. Ernest, the son, is a bright, manly youth, employed at Camp Carlin. Frankie Logan, the daughter, is a remarkably intelligent young lady, who will be remembered by many of our citizens as one of the two graduates of the Cheyenne public school last summer; the first and only pupils upon whom such honors have ever been conferred within the limits of the territory.
As we write, the mind cannot refrain from adverting to that desolate home beyond the lake where the anguish of the sorrow stricken relatives utterly defies the power of tongue to describe or the pen to portray.
© Cheyenne Daily Leader no. 76 December 15, 1878, page 4
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HILL LOGAN.
_________________
Recovery of the Body- The Inquest-Consigned to the Tomb.
_________________
At an early hour on Sunday morning a large number of citizens went to Lake Minnehaha for the purpose of recovering the body of Hill Logan, who was drowned there on Friday night. Messrs. Frank Hunter, Geo. L. Holt, Marvin E. Waldraven and others lowered grappling hooks at the broken place in the ice, where it was evident Mr. Logan sank, and in a few minutes the body was recovered.
Coroner Goldacker impanelled a jury and heard the testimony of several persons. The principal witness was Mr. H. C. Roberts, the business partner of the deceased. His testimony was substantially as follows:
Mr. Logan was my partner, and a member of the firm of Roberts & Logan, of Cheyenne; on Friday, December 13th, he started home at about half after 6 o'clock, and not coming to business the following morning as usual, I thought he might be sick; he was accustomed to come not very early to business on some occasions; on Saturday evening his son Ernest came from Camp Carlin, where he is employed by the government; told him his father had not been to the store that day, and said he was probably sick; he said that he would go out and see; he went home and returned in about two hours afterward; he said his father had not been home since Friday; several persons were in the store at this time, and proposed to go and look for him, and we started for the lake ,in the direction of his residence; when we arrived at the lake we found tracks where some person had gone on the ice; we followed the trail and came to a place where the ice was broken, and found a basket and cap, which I recognized as belonging to Mr. Logan; I notified the coroner, and we at first decided to go out at once, but owing to the darkness we concluded to postpone the search for the body until daylight; this was about 9 o'clock on Saturday night; sometimes, in stormy weather, the deceased would stay at home or at the store at night, so I did not feel alarmed at his absence from the store on Saturday morning, as his residence was one and a quarter miles from his place of business.
The jury then rendered the following verdict:
CHEYENNE, Dec. 15, 1878
We, the Jurors summoned to inquire into the cause of the death of Hill Logan, here lying dead, find that the deceased came to his death by accidental drowning in Lake Minnehaha, on the evening of December 13, 1878.
M. E. WALDRAVEN,
S. H. WOOD,
J. S. SCHOOLER,
J. C. BRANDON,
WM. F. KAVANAGH,
H. W. HOLT.
Sworn to before me this 15th day of December, 1878.
GEO. P. GOLDACKER, CORONER.
At 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon the funeral of the deceased took place from Masonic temple on Sixteenth street, under the auspices of Cheyenne Lodge No.1, A. F.& A. M., of which order he was an honored member. The attendance of members of the lodge and other citizens at the temple, as at the cemetery, was quite large. At the temple religious services were conducted by Rev. J. Y. Cowhick, pastor of the Presbyterian, and by Rev. W. H. Gillam, of the Methodist church.
The pall-bearers were S. A. Bristol, A. H. Reel, H. W. Moore, George W. Hawes, H. Conway and Wm. Swan. At the grave the scene was very impressive. Thus has passed away one of our oldest and best citizens. The afflicted family of the deceased have the heartfelt sympathy of all in their sudden bereavement.
© Cheyenne Daily Leader no. 77 December 17, 1878, page 4
Submitted by Lostnwyomn August 2013.
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