Bazil Worthan

WORTHAN

Posted By: Carrie Robertson (email)
Date: 6/13/2017 at 20:50:33

The Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette Monday July 3, 1916
...An hour after the double drowning, Bazil Worthan, accompanied by Philip Watterson of 924 South Ninth street, entered the water from the point of the island opposite the park. Worthan outstripped the others in swimming to a point 100 feet from the east bank where he suddenly called for help and disappeared. Those nearby believed him shamming, but when he failed to come up an alarm was given. C.E. Wilson immediately drove his launch to his boathouse where he obtained a drag and began raking the spot where Worthan had disappeared. Twice the hooks caught the man's bathing suit, only to tear loose from the weight of the body. At last Walter Schmitt of the Globe hotel volunteered to dive for the body when it was hooked a third time, and after three attempts he succeeded in bringing it to the surface...After an hour Worthan was pronounced dead. Coroner King, who had just returned from High Rock, viewed the body and ordered it taken to the Beatty's undertaking parlors, and the man's parents and family notified.
Worthan was a driver in the employ of the American Express company, although for many years he was a teamster for the Lynch Transfer company. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Worthan with whom he made his home at 308 Fifth avenue, a wife and an infant child, four brothers, Charles, Fred, Jack and Marion, all of this city, and one sister, Henrietta, who made her home with her parents.

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