Beckham County, OK - Deaths: Mike Nix, 1901
Tuesday, 09 Sep 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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NIX, MIKE
(18 Jul 1901, Thursday, Elk City Democrat, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
The body of Mike Nix, who was found dead in a pool near Long Creek last
week, was taken to Berlin for burial Saturday.
Wednesday evening, July 3, Mike Nix, bookkeeper of the commissary
department of the railroad graders camp, located near the mouth of Long
Creek, left the camp saying he was going for a walk.  Two hours later his
clothes were discovered on the bank of the creek and his body lying face
downward in a pool of water, about two feet deep.  The presumption is that
he went direct from the camp to the pool for a bath and that the body had
lain in the water nearly two hours.  The fact there was no water on the
lungs is evidence that death was not caused by drowning and sustains the
theory that as he leaped from the bank the thread of life was extinct
before the body touched the water.

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