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CLARENCE MICHAEL CARPENTER
[Welland Tribune, 1 August, 1884]
About 2 o’clock afternoon of Friday last, a lad named Clarence Carpenter, aged fourteen years, fell off Hagar’s dock, just above the new canal bridge of the town and was drowned. The deceased was a son of Mr. Wm. Carpenter, Griffith street, and was subject to fits, which possibly many have been the cause of his drowning. The lad’s uncle’s scow had been at the wharf a minute before the accident. As the scow moved away, the boy was standing alone on the wharf, back from the water’s edge and near the bank, supposed to be going away. A few minutes after, those on the scow heard a noise, and looking behind saw the lad’s head in the water out from and below the wharf. Immediately after having been seen, the unfortunate lad sank to rise no more alive. Immediately after the accident the boy’s mother arrived at the scene and gave vent to her great grief in a heart-rending manner. Although immediate search was made for the body it was not found until some six or seven hours after, when Mr. Vanalstine, bridge-tender, recovered it with an apparatus consisting of a lot of fish hooks attached to an iron rod which was thus proved far more effective than the ordinary grappling hooks. The body was found about half way between the wharf and the bridge float, and at the bottom of the canal slope. The funeral took place on Sunday, interment at the R.C. burying ground in this town. The family have the sympathy of all in their affliction.
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