Butts-Jasper County GaArchives News.....Will Blake Drowned at the Power Plant March 1909 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Don Bankston http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00024.html#0005864 July 17, 2011, 8:37 pm Butts County Progress March 1909 Will Blake Drowned At The Power Plant Negro falls off the trestle into surging waters and is swept away. The body has not been recovered Will Blake, colored was drowned in the Ocmulgee river at the power plant of the Central Georgia Power Company Saturday night. It is reported that he was walking across the trestle and fell off into the surging waters and was instantly swept away. Just how the accident happened no one seems to know. Some say he might have been murdered and thrown into the river or may have accidentally fallen of the trestle. The body has not been recovered, though efforts have been made to bring the lifeless form to the surface. At the point where the body disappeared the water is very swift and it may have been swept down the river several hundred yards by the current. The river was dragged in an effort to find the body but this attempt has proved successful. But little is known of the affair even by those at the power plant. It was some time after dark when the negro was reported to have disappeared. What happened prior to that time and after seems veiled in mystery. Butts county Progress Week of March 26, 1909 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/butts/newspapers/willblak3115nw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb